"To tell this story, Henry Frei wrote a book that reads like a novel, following a small number of Japanese soldiers through their mad dash down the peninsula and into the inferno of burning oil tanks and bursting shells that was Singapore shortly before the British surrender. But this is not a novel. The images and words are those of Japanese soldiers who experienced those fateful days, men who survived the guns of February but would be haunted by their echo for the rest of their days."--Back cover.