Survival - deceit

Completing his degree, he'd just joined the army when he was shipped out to Singapore with the others. 'Gibraltar of the East' they called it, but he found himself between a rock and a hard place. That hard place was Changi.

And it was hard. To eat a rat was survival, even a delicacy. But his survival was more to do with skill and deceit than rats.

The Japanese are family people and showing guards a photo of his nephew, pretending it to be his own son, slightly lessened his harsh treatment.

But he was the architect of his survival....