PIGEON MAIL THROUGH HISTORY By SALVADOR BOFARULL		Country Index
	This book deals with the history of carrying messages and mail by carrier pigeon. It covers The Ancient World; The Medieval Near East; Europe before 1867; The Franco Prussian war 1870 – 1871; America and Europe before 1914; European Colonies and Dominions; Russia; The First World War; The period between the First and Second World wars; The Second World war and the period after 1945. There is an extensive bibliography and there is an index to both text and the many illustrations. The book breaks new ground in its field and reviews in the UK and abroad have brought to the author recognition for his research.	Alaska,Ancient Egypt Arab World, Australia Austria, Belgian Congo, Belgium Canada, China Cuba, Dutch East Indies, Egypt Etruria ,Fiji Flanders ,France German East Africa Greece, Greenland Hungary, India Italian Colonies Italy, Japan Middle East, New Zealand, Nigeria Persia, Poland Roman Empire Russia, Sierra Leone South Africa South America Spain, Sweden Switzerland Syria United Kingdom United States Venice Western Europe
	167 pages. B/W illustrations. Card cover with colour illustrations back and front. Price £25 plus postage and packing

A POSTAL HISTORY OF THE PRISONERS OF WAR AND CIVILIAN INTERNEES IN EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR - Volume 1 Singapore and Malaya 1942 – 1945 The Changi Connection By DAVID TETT		Country Index
Volume 2 Dutch East Indies 1942-1946 Paradise Lost published by the author in 2003 and Volume 3 Burma, Thailand and Indochina. 1942-1946. The Railway, the River and the Bridge. Published by BFA Publishing, 2005 see www.fepowmail.com for price and how to purchase	This is the first of three volumes to deal with the subject of the main title. The author combines the general history of the period with personal references from individual correspondences to give detailed context to the postal arrangements for POWs and internees into and out of Singapore and Malaya. The chapters in the book are: Prelude to the Captivity; The Prison Camps; The mails that were returned; At home; The Bureau of Record and Enquiry; Three personal postal histories; The cards from POWs in Singapore; The mail to Civilian Internees in Singapore; Mails to those who were not returned; Unauthorised mails; Japanese Postal Stationery; Some went home. There are seven Appendices dealing with detailed aspects of the postal history such as cards and covers addressed to POWs in Malaya and Singapore and Australian Red Cross Society Directions for Mail. There is a good index and bibliography.	Australia India Japan Singapore Malaya
	“... this is a goldmine of a book....the stuff of history....a priceless and universal appendix to so many singular stories" Martin Bell
	387 pages. B/W illustrations. Hard bound with colour dustjacket. Printed 2002. Price £35 + postage & packing.

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