When Johnny Came Marching Home

Mike Berry is a retired businessman with extensive experience in manufacturing, retailing, event management and sports management. He has a love of travelling, football and enjoys writing. He has been a happily married man for over 50 years and has two children and four grandchildren.He is the son of the book's central character and the book is based on numerous conversations, recordings and discussions with his Dad over his lifetime and particularly in his later years.Mike Berry started writing during the Pandemic and has penned more than one hundred poems on a variety of subjects which he also plans to publish.

"A powerful and moving story from a little-known theatre of the war." Damien Lewis, best-selling author: SAS Brothers in Arms "This is an exceptional journey of grit, determination, and courage that most of us will never have to experience due to the bravery of soldiers like this. " FM Woodrow DCM MBE Former SAS Major and one of the youngest soldiers ever selected for the SAS "Is a heart-stopping account of this decent and courageous man's journey through four tumultuous years. I am really glad that Mike Berry has recorded his father's experiences - shocking though they are - so movingly, as a timely reminder to future generations. Yet for all the horror, this is ultimately an uplifting book owing to the inspiring conduct of its central character. My father knew and liked John Berry, and remained forever thankful to him for taking the pressure off of him when the physical exertions of the Burma Railway became too much. RIP John Berry." Richard Kandler. Author The Prisoner List

• Preface; Chapter One: Streets of Liverpool; Chapter Two: Army Enlistment; Chapter Three: Returned to Unit; Chapter Four: Shipped to Singapore; Chapter Five: The Surrender; Chapter Six: The Saigon Docks; Chapter Seven: 'The Death Railway'; Chapter Eight: Brit vs Aussie Fight; Chapter Nine: Hard Labour; Chapter Ten: Japanese Barbarity; Chapter Eleven: Death and Survival; Chapter Twelve: Disease and Deprivation; Chapter Thirteen: Nakom Paton; Chapter Fourteen: The Mergui Road Nightmare; Chapter Fifteen: Japanese Surrender; Chapter Sixteen: When Johnny Came Marching Home; Poems: When Johnny Came Marching Home; Barbarians of Japan; The Mergui Road; The Massacre of Nanking; BBC Radio Interview with Johnny in His Eighties;