☀️ As Britain swelters through another heatwave… Many of us have found the recent temperatures exhausting. We’ve sought shade, turned on fans, reached for cold drinks, or escaped indoors. Now imagine there was no escape. For thousands of British and Commonwealth Far East Prisoners of War, the relentless tropical heat of places like Singapore, Thailand and Burma was not something they endured for a few days—it became their daily reality for years. Working from dawn until dusk

Sir Laurens van der Post was more than a soldier. He was a dreamer, a writer, and a seeker of meaning — even in the darkest corners of...