Snaring the Other Tiger, by Ian Ward (Media Masters, Singapore, no price given)

The Daily Telegraph's former Asian correspondent won't, surely, be popular in his native Australia following the publication of this study of how evidence was concocted, a trial rigged, a cover up put into place and a Japanese general, Takuma Nishimura, hanged by the Australian army on a remote island in June for a series of second World War "war crimes" in which he played no part whatsoever. True, the Japanese were no angels, but this is shocking stuff.