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James Clavell King Rat
During the Second World War the key British bastion in Asia eas Singapore. The fall of the city meant the loss of the East Indies - and of the Allied armies. Nearly 150.000 young men were captured and only one in fifteen was to survive the three and a half long years to VJ day. Set in Changi, the most notorious POW camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival. This fictionalised account comes from a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. King Rat shows how only one man in fifteen had the strength, luck or cleverness that meant survival, why only one man was King...and why he was an american.
"James Clavell is a brilliant obserer...he is also a spellbinding story-teller...one of the best five books of fiction this year"
New York Times
"Terrifyingly exciting suspense"
Ian Fleming
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