Just read a superb book called THE FORGOTTEN HIGHLANDER by Alistair Urquhart.

A young Scotsman is sent to Singapore at the start of WWII and is captured by the Japanese. Here starts an extradorinary story of courage and bravery matched by Japanese brutality and sadism. Young Urquhart is sent to work on the Death Railway and lives in the hell camps, systematically starved and tortured by the Japs. For 4 and a half years he ate one bowl of rice a day, was beaten every day and never had a day off even when riddled with malaria and dysentry....

This is a must read book about the forgotten Japanese Asian atrocities......some of it is horrendous to read!!