On Radji Beach: The Story of the Australian Nurses After the Fall of Singapore by Ian W Shaw
TBM9781405040242
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ISBN:
9781405040242
Author:
Ian W Shaw
Edition:
1st edition
Publisher:
Pan Macmillan Australia
Place:
Sydney NSW
Year:
2010
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
360 pages
Book Type:
SECONDHAND
Period:
20th Century
Book Description
Secondhand. Very good condition. A little scuffing on the edges. Pages have started to sun.
Japanese troops invaded Malaya in December 1941.
In February 1942, 65 Australian army nurses escaped Singapore on the SS Vyner Brooke. Two days later, the ship sank by Japanese aircraft. A group of survivors, including 22 nurses, made it ashore to Radji Beach on Banka Island near Sumatra.
The Japanese soldiers who subsequently found the survivors would not accept their surrender. The Australian nurses were ordered into the water and died in a hail of bullets.
Only Vivian Bullwinkel survived, pretending to be dead. Wounded, Bullwinkel endured 13 days in the jungle before another Japanese patrol picked her up. Bullwinkel waited with the other surviving nurses from the Vyner Brooker.
They went on to endure three and a half years in internment camps. Only 24 of the original 65 returned to Australia.
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