Ronald Searle was present at the fall of Singapore, and later, while a prisoner of the Japanese and forced to work on the 'Railway of Death' in Burma, he made many detailed drawings of the suffering of a defeated army.
In this film several artists including Ronald Searle, Feliks Topolski, John Worsley, and the children's book illustrator, Edward Ardizzone, recall their wartime experiences. Their reminiscences illustrated by this work suggest a very different picture from the one put out by the official press photographs of those days.

(Taking a paintbrush to war: pp 9-11)
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