Unfinished Symphony

Unfinished Symphony is a posthumously published autobiographical account of life as a prisoner of war working on the infamous Death Railway in Burma during World War II. Captured by the Japanese during the debacle of the Malay and Singapore confrontation of 1942. George Mick Stirling tells in exceptionally moving terms of the tribulations of a group of would-be escapees , including himself, following their move from Changi prisoner of war camp to work on Death Railway.
This book represents primary source material of a kind which is rarely available, detailing life as a prisoner of the Japanese in sub-human conditions which few of us can imagine these days. Death is commonplace as are disease and maltreatment of a scale which is impossible to justify. The book tells all of this in exceptionally moving terms which will reach into the hearts of all who read it.
George Mick Stirling was born in Ireland before moving to Surrey as a teenager. At the outbreak of World War II he enlisted in the East Surrey Regiment and was shipped to the Far East in 1940. With the fall of Singapore in 1942 he was captured by the Japanese and was a prisoner for the remainder of the war. On his return to England he could never talk about his experiences but wrote this account of them. It was discovered by his daughter, Moyna Foden, after his death, and is now made public for the very first time.