Tigers in The Park

Synopsis

Adam Park is a very special place. It is a place where the membrane of time is at its thinnest, where you can reach out and touch history.

Some say that if you stop to sit and listen you can still hear the echoes of the battle reverberating through the very walls. Some say they hear the ghosts of dead POWs that flit between the evening shadows. But perhaps it is not the presence of lost souls they sense but the resonance of the past locked into the very landscape and buildings that surround them. It is the echo of every bullet, buckle and button entombed beneath this 'English heaven'.

This book unlocks that past. It prises out those memories from hidden places. It reveals the incredible, untold wartime heritage of the estate and the surrounding area. It is an uncompromising blow-by-blow account of a desperate battle told from the soldier's perspective. It is a day-by-day account of survival in a POW work camp, and a house-by-house account of life in Singapore before, during and after 1942.

One estate, one year, one incredible wartime story. A snapshot of history as witnessed from the windows and porticos of each and every house on the Adam Park estate.