""Whilst awaiting our turn to be dispatched into the unknown, the north-east monsoon came and went and by the time our cat had kittens, we had already been imprisoned a year. The kittens were born on 2 March 1943, the day before my 23rd birthday, but we didn't have the heart (or yet the stomach) to eat them as a celebration." from 'To the Kwai - and Back' by Ronald Searle" image: A small study of a cat. image verso: Notes on art history in Searle's handwriting.