About the Author

Cecil Lowry is the son of a former Far Eastern Prisoner of War Hugh Lowry. His father was taken prisoner of war on 15 February 1942.

He then spent three and a half years slaving on the infamous ‘Death Railway’ in Thailand where he endured terrible treatment by the Japanese.

In 2002 Cecil began to research his father’s time in the Far East, resulting in the publication of three previous books under the Pen and Sword Military imprint, No Mercy from the Japanese (with John Wyatt, 2008), Last Post Over the River Kwai (2018) and Frank Pantridge MC: Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator (2020). He has also written Two Years of Tenko: Life as a 16-year-old in a Japanese Prisoner of War Camp.

Cecil lives in Stockport.