Suddenly a sharp blow on the side of her head sent Rosemary sprawling on the floor. The comman-dant stood over her, his arm still outstretched. "You laugh at officer of Nippon," he raged. "You will be punished!" He gave an order to the guards, and they grabbed her arms and took her out to the back of the building, across a yard and into another building where they opened a hatch low in a wall and bundled her in. She was in a sort of bunker with a cement floor and it was in almost total darkness. A filter of dim light and a trickle of air came in from one end, where it narrowed almost to a point. There was not enough room to sit up. There was just room to spread her legs. Panic rose in her chest. She wanted to scream and thresh about . . . Langford was born in Singapore, where her father had a business. When the time came to think about her education, her mother insisted that Rosemary be sent to school in England, and that she should fly back to Singapore each holiday. One August, just before she was due to fly back to England, Rosemary had to go into hospital for three weeks, and a few days later, on September 3rd, England declared war on Germany. Rosemary was just seventeen years old."Never mind," her mother comforted her. "It will all be over in six months. And then you can go to your finishing school in Switzerland."two years later war was still raging in Europe, and then the unbelievable happened . . . the Japanese invaded Malaya, and began their inexorable advance towards Singapore . . .

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