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Book trailer for Sunset on Ramree by Robert Appleton. Based on the deadliest crocodile attack ever recorded. Set during WW2. **EPIC Award Winner 2011 for Historical Fiction**

www.robertappleton.co.uk

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  • it was only 400 japanese soldiers and about 25

    survived

  • The numbers have been debated over the years, kronlc. Around 1,000 Japanese soldiers retreated into the swamp, but some sources say 500 managed to escape and join another battalion. 20-25 were definitely *captured* by the British. What happened to the rest, well, we'll never know.

  • oh i read about this in a book. the soldiers were ambushed by hundreds of crocodiles in the middle of the night. the survivors were taken hostage by enemy soldiers

  • That's the one, FlamingFury. The Japanese soldiers had sworn an oath never to surrender, so the only place they could go was into the heart of the swamp--where hundreds of crocodiles waited.

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  • awesome

  • I read about this in a readers digest "Marvels and mysteries of the seas"- 1977, from my Gran's house. Scariest book I think I have ever read- including this story, and shark attack on ww2 cruiser "Indianapolis".

  • serem banget ini pulau ,

    GILA dah kalah amazon..

  • @koreathreekingdoms

    i know what they did and they did some horrible stuff to the country i come from but still that's really harsh because it was the way they were told and brought up from past mentors... and its war. some did not like the war and didnt want to fight but had to for themselves and whatever family they had, like most soldiers from other countries would.

  • @grip07PM Read what they did and youll say they deserved it alright.

  • Man those japanese bastards deserved it. You dont know how much harm they cost other countries infact they deserve way worse than this. Those crocodiles were sent as a punishment from the heavens.

  • Man those japanese bastards deserved it. You dont know how much harm they cost other countries infact they deserve way worse than this. Those crocodiles were sent has a punishment from the heavens.

  • @mmcceng77 That's a very ignorant and racist thing to say...

  • @Falcone45 Most of them would have perished from want of food water and

    swamp born diseases, maybe some would have been taken by the crocs but we

    will never know.

  • @kronlc Actually, the writers of Guiness World Book 2006 said only 20 Japanese men survived.

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