Trial By Battle

Author: Piper, David

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Published on 5 September 2019 by Imperial War Museum in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics' series.

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.