This is a story of courage and endurance. Of one man's grim determnation to survive agsainst all the odds. Arthur Shephard had just turned twenty-four when his depleted battalion was placed in the path of the Japanese Army, as it drove down through Malaya in January 1942. Incredibly, the Australian force stopped the Japanese in their tracks, in one of the great battles of the Malayan campaign. But the Japanese were only temporarily halted. Arthur's survival in the jungle for three-and-a-half years, constantly on the run, fighting battles with the Japanese and against starvation and a succession of deadly diseases which claimed his comp[anions one by one, is one of the most amazing stories to come out of World War II. This is the story of Arthur Sheppard's survival, as told from his diaries and from recordings made with him before his death in 1984. So it is a true story, a slice of history. It is also an incredible adventure through dark and dangerous times.