Soldier survived years as POW after Battle of Hong Kong

He spoke little of his wartime experiences before publishing his autobiography, One Soldier’s Story, in which he wrote that he was ‘in the last stages of starvation’ when the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

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