The capture of Singapore was crucial to the Japanese plants to sweep across India and take ... more
a foothold in the Middle East, giving the Axis powers a vice like grip on the world outside of the Americas.Vital to the Japanese was a supply line, given that t...
Captured on arrival in Singapore, Jack Chalker, an art student, joined the 60,000 allied ... more
prisoners in the slave labour camps of the infamous Burma Railway. This book presents his work that records not only the misery, squalor and savagery of the prison camps, but also the horrific reality of disease, wounds and the ravages of starvation.
Advantages: A true story of one man's courage Disadvantages: Very distressing at times
As many of you will already know, I am an avid reader of anything and everything. I've always had a love of books and will read any book placed in front of me. Some subjects will just captivate my interest and, when my dad lent this book to me, I did not think that a book about railways would be interesting. How wrong I was!
The RRP on this is £7.99, although if you shop around, it can be found online for a lot less (try Amazon marketplace for a price of about £3). I always shop around for my books, as I am a bit of a tightwad haha! But seriously I will happily pay for a second hand copy of a book, as sometimes it is just too expensive to buy it new.
Anyway, I digress and should really get back to the review of this book.
Eric Lomax (the author) lived for most of his life in Edinburgh prior to the outbreak of WW2. While ...
Advantages: It is a great watch Disadvantages: None
When i saw this film i thought it was great it stars jenny aggutter as the mother and she has three children called Roberta (bobbie) Phylis (Phil) and Peter. The father is taken away because he was accused of giving away government details to someone else and the childrens aunt emma comes to stay (who they do not like) and then they have to play poor for a while so they sell the things that they are not going to need and move to a place in the country called the three chimneys.
After they move there the children grow to love the railway which they get to know the time of one train and wave at the train to send their love to father and an old gentleman waves back. The children make friends with the station porter Mr Perks and their mother starts to write stories to make money and every time she sells a story they can have buns for tea ...
Advantages: On time, new trains, comfortable Disadvantages: Pricy to only go a few stops, trains are infrequent on Sundays
Introduction ~~
Well the British railways are in a bit of a state. Unsafe, late and unreliable are three words that come to mind. Well those three words don't go with all of Britain's railways. Well those three words certainly don't go with Chiltern Railways, who I use a lot. They provide services between Birmingham, the West Midlands and London.
Frequency of trains ~~
Out of the many times I have used Chiltern Railways the train has never been more than 5 minutes late. And usually it is dead on time. Yes I bet your thinking if only all British rail services were like Chiltern Railways.
Trains are very frequent in the week and on Saturdays but trains are very infrequent on Sundays and the service is restricted. The service is also interrupted on Sundays due to track maintenance.
Value ~~
Not great.
Comfort ~~
All ...
Disillusioned 04.09.2001
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