The Story of Billy Young: A Teenager in Changi, Sandakan and Outram Road by Anthony Hill

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with external stickers and Protective plastic covering. Sticker on synopsis page is now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Pages have sunned. Book is clean and binding is still very good.

Billy Young was a boy of 15 when he joined the AIF in 1941. He was an orphan - hungry, broke, with nowhere to sleep - and the army offered him a feed, a blanket and five shillings a day in his pocket.

Billy was sent to Malaya, where he became a POW. From Changi, 'Billy the Kid' spent the rest of his teenage years in some of the worst Japanese prisons: the notorious labour camp at Sandakan (from which he escaped), and solitary confinement in the horrific Outram Road prison.

In this powerful account of one of the youngest-ever prisoners of war, award-winning author Anthony Hill takes us into the hearts and minds of the POWs. (Back cover)