Book Description
Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Minor mark on top foredge. Pages are sunned. Large print book. Originally published in 1954.
An account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road.
In 1942, a group of Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. Of the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, twenty-one were killed and the remainder took prisoner.
This engrossing record was kept by one of the surviving sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the three-and-a-half gruelling years of imprisonment that followed.