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Trial By Battle David Piper

Trial By Battle By David Piper

Trial By Battle by David Piper


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Summary

October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India, and soon after the Japanese advance on Singapore is deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the futility of war.

Trial By Battle Summary

Trial By Battle by David Piper

October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India and taken under the wing of the dogmatic, overbearing Acting-Captin Sam Holl. Following the Japanese advance on Singapore, the men are deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the futility of war.

Trial By Battle Reviews

A visceral depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare. * Radio Times *
A tremendous rediscovery of a brilliant novel. Extremely well written, its effects are both sophisticated and visceral. Remarkable. -- William Boyd
One of the most absorbing and painful books about jungle warfare that I have read. -- V. S. Naipaul

About David Piper

David Piper was perhaps best known as an art historian and director of the NPG, Fitzwilliam and Ashmolean museums. He served with the Indian Army during the Second World War, eventually becoming a Japanese prisoner of war for three years before his release in 1945. He was knighted in 1983.

Additional information

GOR010047885
9781912423088
1912423081
Trial By Battle by David Piper
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Imperial War Museum
20190905
176
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