Hugh V. Clarke was a bombardier with the 2/10th Field Regiment, 8th Division, became a prisoner of war after the fall of Singapore, and was one of several Australians imprisoned in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped. Clarke's other books of military history include A life for every sleeper: A pictorial record of the Burma-Thailand railway and Twilight liberation: Australian prisoners of war between Hiroshima and home.
