Never Before Published Comprehensive Travel Guide to World War 2 covering Singapore and Thailand

A just published travel guide with emphasis on WW2 Singapore & Thailand. Travel guide to War Cemeteries, Prisoner of War(POW)Camps, Cuttings, ExPOW interviews, including comments from John Howard Australian Prime Minister on Hellfire Pass and exclusive pictures of the Queen of Holland in a Thai Museum, with another 150 wartime and current day photos including never published before camp reports, travel tips, scams to avoid and general touristy hotspots in Singapore & Thailand etc.

October 4, 2004 -- Just published book - A Different Brand Of English by Andrew Mason. This comprehensive travel guide has an emphasis on WW2 Singapore and Thailand. It guides the traveler around Kranji, Chungkai and Kanchanaburi War Cemeteries and includes many graves of war time luminaries to visit with next of kin permission and in some cases includes photographs of the deceased all with information on how and where they died etc. It guides the traveler to cuttings, Bridge Over the River Kwai, Hellfire Pass, POW Camps, Changi Prison etc.

The travel guidebook also consists of Ex Prisoner of War (POW)interviews of men who toiled on the Thai-Burma Railway & includes an interview with the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery and Museum Director/Curator. Along with never published before prison camp reports marked SECRET and released before the end of the war for Australian Prison Camp Investigators. The Australian Prime Minister provided comments exclusively for the book about his travel in and around Hellfire Pass. Has over 150 photographs from many and varied luminaries including many of George Aspinall's war time collection, exclusive pictures of the Queen of Holland in the Thai War Museum, contemporary shots of Singapore and Thailand's memorials, plaques and places of interest, including Australian War Memorial photographs and maps etc.

The guidebook also discusses the main touristy attractions in both countries including Raffles Hotel, Singapore Cricket Club, Merlion, Bangkok Palace, Bangkok Prison, Patpong Market to Phuket etc. It has a recommended restaurant guide, a hotel stay guide and tips and travel advice down to scams to avoid with up to date foreign office warnings.

This type of book on this combined issue has never been written before and it goes where no guidebook has gone before on this subject. The journey the book takes is one of wonder, excitement, sadness and reflection.

Available at www.poseidonbooks.com/a_different_brand_of_english.htm for AUD$25 it is 367 pages.

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