The officer and the batman are captured after a Japanese attack. Kent initially divulges nothing more than his name, rank and serial number, but after being shown how his fellow soldiers had been tortured, and he is threatened with the same, he reveals to his Japanese interrogator all of the information he knows. After an air raid, Anson is able to escape, also saving Kent. Their relationship resumes, and Kent kills a soldier who has figured this out and tried to blackmail him. After the company has arrived in India, Kent attempts suicide, but when unsuccessful, finds himself happy to be alive, and to be with Anson.
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LATER LIFE: The trials were disheartening for Baxter, and he would not write another book. Christopher Isherwood wrote in 1961 that Baxter ”… has become a rather tragic self-pitying drunken figure with a philosophy of failure.”
Oh, Wikipedia gave me a feel today
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Poignant.