Collectable Very Good.
A collection of poems and anecdotes regarding war and conflict, compiles by Veteran - Arthur Lane. Signed by Arthur.
Arthur enlisted in 1935 at the age of 15, joining the Manchester Regiment and served as a machine-gunner and bugler in Egypt, Cyprus, Palestine, Singapore and Malaya. At the capitulation of Singapore on February 15, 1942, he was among the 80,000 British, Australian and Indian troops that became POWs of the Japanese. He was forced to work on the notorious Thai-Burma Death Railway where thousands of his fellow POWs died.
As a bugler, he sounded the last post over more than 3000 British, Australian, Dutch and even Japanese burials.
He has published sixteen books concerning the war and published twenty-six books on behalf of other former service men and women.