Down to Bedrock

One man’s experience as a prisoner of war of the Japanese from 1942 to 1945, first in Changi in Singapore, and then beside the River Kwai during the building of the infamous Death Railway. As a young priest Eric Cordingly suddenly found himself catapulted into a parish of 50,000 fellow captives. With an unsentimental and practical approach this modest man set about his pastoral duties under the most harrowing conditions. This eye witness account and many original illustrations by fellow POWs which he collected and kept with his papers, create a vivid picture of those desperate years.