The epic novel of war, savagery, and survival in a Japanese POW camp by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls...
The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory. Here, within the seething mass of humanity, one man, an American corporal, seeks dominance over both captives and captors alike. His weapons are human courage, unblinking understanding of human weaknesse...
Set in Changi, the most notorious prisoner of war camp in Asia, King Rat is an heroic story of survival told by a master story-teller who lived through those years as a young soldier. Only one man in fifteen had the strength, the luck, and the cleverness simply to survive Changi. And then there was ...
Idet Vtoraya mirovaya vojna, no zdes', v yaponskom lagere dlya voennoplennyh, ne slyshny zvuki bitvy. Zdes' oficery i soldaty vedut sobstvennuyu vojnu za vyzhivanie v nechelovecheskih usloviyah. King, amerikanskij kapral, stremitsya k dominirovaniyu i nad plennikami, i nad zahvatchikami. Ego oruzhie...