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• Title: Lucky Me!
• Author : Jim Curson
• Release Date : January 20, 2014
• Genre: Biographies & Memoirs,Books,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 1694 KB

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In 1940 Sapper James (Jim) Curson set sail with his British unit-

251 Field Company, Royal Engineers and joined the fleet to

India. His ship, The Empress of Asia was bombed and sank off

the coast of Singapore. Rescued, he found he’d been reported

missing, and his wife told he’d been killed in action.



When Singapore fell to the Japanese Jim became a prisoner of

war, toiling in the jungle in the slave labour camps to build the

infamous Burma Railway. The line was completed in a year, but

it cost the lives of more than 22,600 POWs and 100,000 native

labourers. Many of them were buried there. 70 years later, Jim

is one of the few survivors who came home, and is still alive

to tell his account of their life; a story that can now be told by

only a few Japanese prisoners on the notorious death railway.

He tells of the ability of the human spirit to overcome the most

unbearably cruel conditions … the misery, brutality, squalor, the

diseases, and the starvation the prisoners suffered under the

Japanese.

Farm boy Jim never gave up hope that he would return to his

wife, and she too held the hope he was alive. Returning to Britain

he found the Japanese nation was being remade to become a

Western ally and nobody wanted to know about the horror he’d

been through. Despite having to learn to live in civilisation again,

Jim and Dorothy lived a happy life for almost seventy years.

This is his story.

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