Call number
FIC SCH
Collection
Genres
Publication
anchovysundae Creations (2011), 406 pages
Description
Japan invades and captures the British colony of Singapore in 1942. All Europeans on the island are being interned. Edward Schirmer, the author's grandfather, faces a dilemma - he is German but born as a British subject. In a strange stroke of fortune, he finds himself friends with General Tomoyuki Yamashita, the famed 'Tiger of Malaya'. Seeing the fate of the other Europeans, Edward reluctantly lets the Japanese assume he is a friendly German national - only Yamashita knows otherwise. The secret of his true identity remains between the two men only but when politics removes the protective Yam
Pages
406
ISBN
0984782303 / 9780984782307