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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