This account is written as a 'based on' real-life POW story of Hugh Clark who was a member of the Australian 2nd 10th Field Regiment.,
Tony Harris had been a prisoner of the Japanese for six weeks when he chance to pick up the tub - an incident that begins one of the most fascinating accounts of POW life ever to emerge from the Asian hell of World War II.
This is the story of four Australian prisoners, during the unforgettable and tragic journey from their western world, to Changi, the Burma Railway, onwards to the Nagasaki dockyards and finally the Nakarma coal mines.