15th amended edition. Undated but circa 1963. 20pp folded booklet in printed paper wraps, with black and white illustrations. 8vo. Covers cover, faded and chipped all around edges and around the spaces for now absent staples (disbound). Internally, some page toning and edge wear to pages throughout.
Charles Thrule was a British serviceman during the Second World War. His drawings were created during his time as prisoner of war in the Far East, including in the notorious Changi jail in Singapore. The exhibition of these drawings, The Valleys of the Shadow of Death, open in London in 1941 and toured the country until 1964. The exhibition was proclaimed as "the first pictorial record in the world of the Japanese P.O.W. camps"; Viscount Montgomery said it was a fine pictorial record, portraying so poignantly the hardships of life in Japanese Prisoner of War camps.
