As a soldier he was captured by the Japanese and survived several years as a PoW, working on the Siam railway, before returning to play six more League games for Ipswich; he then joined Bristol Rovers in 1947.
His novel, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, is broadly based on the unspeakable horrors experienced by his father – who died the day the book was completed – as a PoW working on the "death railway", the line from Thailand to Burma that the Japanese began to construct using slave labour and whose victims were more numerous than words in the book.
He took on a POW, John McCain.
Alís et al. [1] proposed a PoW scheme based on a Bloom filter, which is efficient at both the server and the client side.
Montgomerie and his plethora of vice-captains – five at the last count – held a pow-wow on Sunday night and decided a man who could hold his nerve on the final nine holes of a US Open had the makings of a Ryder Cup hero.
On May 10th the Central Party School, a hatchery for Beijing's top cadres, will start a pow-wow on the theory and practice of deliberative democracy.
"Charnley and I always have a pow-wow on Rossall and how she fares, whenever we meet.
It is based on Lomax's book of the same name, which tells of his suffering as a young Scottish POW on the Burma railway and how, with the help of his wife, he travelled back to Asia to meet one of his torturers in an attempt let go of a lifetime of bitterness and hate.
"Just because I am a Republican doesn't mean I am dead to him," says Joshua, who requests details of the Feelthebern.org website beneath a POW "Missing in Action" flag on the next street over.
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