Dear Philip
A Diary of Captivity, Changi, 1942–1945
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Printing Details
First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22 × 14cm, 158pp.
When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942 a young American newspaper woman and her husband were taken prisoner. They had been married just nine days before, on her twenty-eighth birthday. As a British doctor serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps he was sent to the military prisoner-of-war camp at Changi. She was interned in the Changi women's civilian prison. The two of them were separated for the next three and a half years and during that time she kept a diary in the form of a letter to her husband Philip. He read it only when they were at last united. Then it was put away with other family papers until it came to light some thirty-five years later. 'Dear Philip' is a touching account of one young woman's war spent mainly in overcrowded and sometimes extremely uncomfortable condition with over four hundred other women.
Condition
This copy is in good condition. There is some tanning to the pages and a previous owner's inscription to the ffep. The wrapper has been neatly price-clipped but remains in good order.
ISBN
0370303458
Price
£15.00
