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NEWSPAPERS
The Sydney Sun, November, December 1937
JOURNALS
The Army Quarterly, April 1928
The Australian Army Journal, Volume II, Number 1
The Defence Force Journal, Number 26 January–February 1981
The London Gazette, Lieutenant-General A. E. Percival, ‘Operations of Malaya Command from 08.12.1941 to 15.02.1942’
DVDS, VIDEOS
Hell in the Pacific, written and produced and directed by Jonathon Lewis, for Carlton UK Productions Ltd, 2001
Recollections 2/30th Battalion AIF Association, a five DVD disc set, 1994
Table of Contents
TITLE PAGE
COPYRIGHT PAGE
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
LIST OF MAPS
PROLOGUE
PART I: PRELUDE TO WAR . . . THE STRESSES AND STRAINS
1: THE SUN NEVER SETS . . .
2: THE FAR EAST AND NEAR NORTH
3: SINGING FROM DIFFERENT HYMN SHEETS
4: RAISING NEW DIVISIONS
5: MALAYA COMMAND
6: INTERNAL DISSENSION
7: THE ENEMY
PART II: THE CAMPAIGN . . . IN THE CLEVEREST WAY
8: AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE
9: BAD NEWS FOR THE HOUSE
10: THE JITRA LINE
11: THE DEFENCE OF GURUN
12: THE WITHDRAWAL FROM KAMPAR
13: SLIM RIVER
14: GEMAS
15: THE BATTLE OF MUAR
16: TO PARIT SULONG
17: A GREAT SCANDAL
18: TO THE CAUSEWAY
19: 'COMETH THE HOUR . . .'
20: 'I DREW MY MEN BACK . . .'
21: FURTHER RETREATS
22: FINAL DAYS
PART III: PUDU AND CHANGI PRISONS . . . PURGATORY
23: 'ROARING REGGIE'
24: LIGHT OF THE SOUTH
25: PURGATORY
26: THE SINGAPORE WORK CAMPS
PART IV: THE THAI–BURMA RAILWAY . . . THE GODS DON’T GIVE A DAMN
27: THE KILLER CYCLE
28: 'U' BATTALION
29: 'F' FORCE
30: 'WHERE ARE THE REST, MAJOR?'
PART V: SINGAPORE . . . THE ORPHAN
31: RECKONING
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
