Book Description
This is the vivid and authentic story of the author's escape from Singapore just before the island fell to the Japanese in 1942 during the Second World War. It describes his grueling experiences in reaching the safety of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) via land and sea.Deserving its place in the first-hand accounts of civilian adventures during WWII, Singapore to Freedom illuminates in detail what later became know as "the Malayan tragedy".Mr. Gilmour was Deputy Municipal Engineer of Singapore before the war began, and his absorbing narrative of the hazards and hardships of his experience makes for a book not easily abandoned.