You'll Die in Singapore: The True Account of One of the Most Amazing Prison Escapes in WWII

Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a WWII POW in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began an epic two-thousand-mile, five-month escape from the island of Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Australia.