Last Post Over the River Kwai: The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East 1938-1945

by Cecil Lowry

Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys during the Second World War.Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance. After heavy losses the survivors found themselves POWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the humiliating surrender which Churchill described...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1526736918
• ISBN13: 9781526736918
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Military
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"