Surviving the defence of Singapore
TAYLOR, William. With the Cambridgeshires at Singapore. March, Cambridgeshire: Edited, Designed and Published by Trevor Allen Bevis. 1971.
4to. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt; illustrated dust-wrappers (not price-clipped), xiv, 115, illustrated after photographs and drawings; wrappers a little frayed, otherwise very good.
Scarce first edition, presentation copy, inscribed by the author. This is the story of the regiment's struggle to defend Singapore and the hardship they endured in captivity. The author was not very young anymore when he was called up in 1939. He survived the notorious 'Death Railway'.
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