Book Condition: London 1972, 191 pp., illus., 1 map, 160 x 220 mm Weight 1.2 Lbs. Rawlings, Leo; And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder VERY INTERESTING book filled with great black & white photos and illustrations of the horors of captivity in Japanese Prisoner of War camps. Pp. xxxii+160, numerous text illustrations, upper pastedown map; price-clipped dust wrapper, edges slightly rubbed with a few short splits; edges of leaves faintly foxed. Foreword by Lord Mountbatten of Burma. Dedication by Lord Russell of Liverpool. xxxi and 160 pages. Map of the notorious Railway of Death front endpaper and 119 plates. The artist's (1918-1984) now classic work as a prisoner of war for three and a half years of the Japanese in World War II, in which he describes the railway camps, the bridge building on the River Kwai, Changi in Singapore, the fall of Singapore, and all of the horrors experienced by the POW's - all graphically illustrated by his now famous drawings. Signature of Mountbatten opposite main title page. a clean and tight copy. The author was captured by the Japanese and during is captivity managed to record the dreadful conditions in the prison camps and on the ?Railway of Death?. Dustjacket has a little wear to spine head and tail, sides and corner tips and is price clipped. 1972. 1st edn., xxxi, facsimile, half tone photo ills. and 119 plates of the author's work in text, maps at front endpapers, black cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured lettered dustwrapper, the experiences of an artist, a Gunner/Signaller with the territorial unit the 137 Field Regiment, RA, posted to Singapore in September 1941, in the front line in Malaya until the capitulation in February, 1942, and then over three years as a POW of the Japanese during which time he recorded events, conditions and atrocities including time on the Burma Railway, with a supporting account by Bill Duncan, lightly rubbed at tips, edges sl. tanned, faint mark on title, dustwrapper.
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