Trial By Battle

Four iconic and influential depictions of the Second World War through the novel are reissued here by the Imperial War Museum, with historian introductions set to contextualise each informatively.

About the author

David Piper (1918-90) was perhaps best known as an art historian and director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Fitzwilliam, and Ashmolean museums. He served with the Indian Army during World War II, eventually becoming a Japanese prisoner of war for three years before his release in 1945. He was knighted in 1983.

Summary

October 1941. Twenty-one-year-old Alan Mart is posted to India, and soon after the Japanese advance on Singapore is deployed to Malaya. What follows is a quietly shattering and searingly authentic depiction of the claustrophobia of jungle warfare and the futility of war.

Product details

• Authors: D. Piper, David Piper
• Publisher: Imperial War Museum
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781912423088
• ISBN: 978-1-912423-08-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 131 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 164 g
• Series: Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics; Imperial War Museum Wartime Classics
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature