TOMORROW YOU DIE: THE ASTONISHING SURVIVAL STORY OF A SECOND WORLD WAR PRISONER OF THE JAPANESE
Book ID/图书代码： 08430012B56152
English Summary/英文概要： The oldest child of poor Irish immigrants, Andy Coogan was born on April Fool’s Day, 1917. His amazing recollections of life in Glasgow’s slums during the 1920s and ’30s are told with humour and candour in Tomorrow You Die. They form the backdrop to a gripping war story that begins with jungle fighting against Japanese invaders in Malaya in 1942 and ends with the dropping of the Atom bomb just 20 miles from Andy’s prisoner of war camp.
As a young man, Andy was tipped for Olympic glory before war service interrupted his promising running career. He was later captured during the fall of Singapore in Britain’s greatest-ever military defeat, marking the start of a three-and-a-half-year nightmare of starvation, torture and disease as a prisoner of war.
Andy was imprisoned in notorious Changi prison before being transported to Taiwan, where he worked as a slave in a copper mine and was twice ordered to dig his own grave. Later taken to Japan, where he nearly died, Andy’s athleticism and spirit allowed him to survive an ordeal that killed so many.
From his poverty-stricken boyhood in Glasgow’s Gorbals slums to the atomic wasteland of Nagasaki, Andy’s life story is vividly recounted in Tomorrow You Die, revealing an epic tale that will shock, enthrall and inspire.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 安迪•库根来自一个贫困的爱尔兰移民家庭，是家中的长子，他生于1917年的愚人节当天。在《明日即亡》一书中，安迪用轻快幽默的语调讲述了自己在格拉斯 哥贫民窟中的生活，那是20世纪二三十年代的往事了。这段个人生活的经历揭开了那段揪人心魂的战争故事的幕后：1942年日本入侵马来半岛，丛林自此战争 打响，直到原子弹在距安迪所在的战俘营20英里的地方爆炸才告一段落。
青年时代的安迪一直怀揣着奥运梦，直到战争中断了他颇有希望的赛跑生涯。他在英军最大一次军事战败--新加坡沦陷--中被俘，开始了三年半噩梦般的战俘生活，熬过了不间断的饥饿、酷刑和疾病。
在被转狱到台湾之前，安迪一直被关押在臭名昭著的樟宜监狱，他在铜矿做苦力，还曾两度被勒令自挖坟墓。后被带往日本，几乎葬身于斯。安迪曾经运动员的体力和精神支撑他坚持下来成为寥寥无几的幸存者之一。
从少年时期生活的格拉斯哥贫民窟一路到被原子弹摧毁的长崎牢狱，安迪的人生故事在《明日即亡》中被鲜活地再现出来，向世人展开了一段震惊四座、想象环生、震撼人心的史诗故事。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：’This outstanding memoir is more than a story of barbaric cruelty and the devastating futility of war. It’s a humbling salute to the bravery of a generation and to the courage of a boy from Glasgow who encountered the worst of humanity and emerged a hero’ - The Daily Record’The PoW memoir to top them all’ - Sunday
’If, as Solzhenitsyn wrote of another prison camp, the battle line between good and evil runs through the heart of every man, there is no doubt which side won over Andy Coogan’. - The Herald
About the Author/作者介绍： 安迪•库根1917年生于格拉斯哥，在二战中服兵役，做过三年半的日军战俘。安迪今年有幸成为一名奥运火炬手，这是对他终身献身奥林匹克事业的嘉奖。 Andy Coogan was born in Glasgow in 1917. He served in the Second World War, during which he was a prisoner of war for three and a half years. He will carry the Olympic torch this year in recognition of a lifetime’s service to athletics.
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