Richard Crasta, Author

My late father, John Baptist Crasta, whose memoir Eaten by the Japanese: The Memoir of an Unknown Indian Prisoner of War is available on Amazon and elsewhere as an e-book and paperback, here in some old photographs: Will someone please tell me if the man in the first picture pinning a medal on my father's chest is the man who turned out to be Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw? Above is the latest paperback edition of my father's book, and it features a photograph of him autographing the first edition at the age of 87. Thank you! Links: Eaten by the Japanese : http://myBook.to/B004UBFXFC http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/50202 http://itunes.apple.com/uk/book/eaten-by-japanese-the-memoir/id436268256?mt=11 http://itunes.apple.com/us/book/eaten-by-japanese-the-memoir/id436268256?mt=11 http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/eaten-by-the-japanese-richard-crasta/1100079610?ean=2940011274305 http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Eaten-Japanese-The-Memoir-Unknown...

The story is told in EATEN BY THE JAPANESE, which is now also available in paperback from amazon.com and as an e-book from many different platforms. The joy of seeing my father do this (yes, I was the photographer): That's my father on the left, and he is signing the first edition. (The new paperback, with this photograph, is the third edition). The book is available at: www.amazon.com/Eaten-Japanese-Memoir-Indian-Prisoner/dp/1480034053/ and more links here: http://richardcrasta.com/products/eaten-by-the-japanese/

SJohn Baptist Crasta, 1910-1999, is the father of Richard Crasta, the author of eight books. He was born in Kinnigoli, and walked barefoot for 20 miles through tiger-infested jungles to join his high school in Mangalore. Miraculously escaping an earthquake at Quetta, he joined the British Indian Army, and was captured by the Japanese. His memoir of being a Prisoner-of-War of the Japanese during World War II was published by his son, who edited the book and added an introduction and three essays to it. The book was originally launched on December 27, 1997, and later in 1999 (second edition), is now published in a new edition on Smashwords and at Amazon.  At the time that it happened, John Baptist Crasta was the oldest Indian to have his first book published: he was 87 years old when it happened, and the manuscript had lain in his steel trunk for 51 years after he wrote it. And this is the short biographical introduction that appears in EATEN BY THE JAPANESE: THE MEMOI...

A large number of Indians who fought in World War II, and behaved with dignity and rectitude, have been forgotten by their fellowmen, and the Japanese who imprisoned them. The story is told through the memoir of one man:   Zoom Zoom   Share your own customer images EATEN BY THE JAPANESE: The Memoir of an Unknown Indian Prisoner of War [Kindle Edition] John Baptist Crasta (Author), Richard Crasta (Editor, Introduction) "A war memoir that ranks with the best" and a heartwarming father-son story, "Eaten by the Japanese" is an ideal gift for Father's Day, indeed a basic human story for any occasion. The story begins in Singapore, and then quickly progresses to a Japanese invasion, surrender, the Torture Ship, the Indian National Army, survival, cannibalism, rescue . . . this shocking and poignant World War II and its forgotten Indian Prisoners of War has never been told before, and ...