A Fearful Freedom

The Story of one man’s survival behind the lines in Japanese occupied Malaya 1942-45

by Robert Hamond

Leo Cooper, Secker & Warburg, 1984, ISBN 0436190818, black and white photographic plates, hardcover, dustjacket

Very Good Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, ex-library with stamp to front endpaper and title page, sticker to back endpaper a little rubbing to back endpaper, tape residue to covers, stamp to bottom edge; dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, bumping and chipping (see photographs)

“This amazing survival story tells how Jim Wright, a Norfolk gamekeeper’s son aged 23, managed to evade capture by the Japanese during the last few days of the battle on the Malayan mainland.  It goes on to describe how Wright, wounded in the foot and finally abandoned by his wounded comrades, struggled alone for two months to survive and to rejoin his comrades on Singapore Island, not knowing that they had already surrendered.”