Ronald Searle - RIP

[amateur51]

I remember reading a horrifying account of his experience as a prisoner of war. I was a boarder at the time. It was a relief to discover his drawings and cartoons at a later date, but seeing his name again brings back the former memory. RIP.

Here's a book about this period of RS's life, Patrick

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kwai-Back-Drawings-1939-1945/dp/0285637452/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1325677799&sr=1-5

[PatrickOD]

Here's a book about this period of RS's life, Patrick

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kwai-Back-Dr...5677799&sr=1-5

Thanks amateur for the reference. I wonder if it is the very book I read all those years ago, though I must admit that I do not remember noticing the artwork all that much. We were trained to read, not to look at the pictures, don't you know. But I can recall being moved by the hardship and cruelty that Searle and his companions underwent, and later discussions concerning different attitudes to prisoners of war did little to dilute in my mind the inhumanity of man to man.