Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer

Last Truck Out by Betty Lockyer

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9781921248085
Author: Betty Lockyer
Edition: 1st Edition 2nd Printing
Publisher: Magabala Books
Place: Broome WA
Year: 2015
Format: Paperback
Pages: 270 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Some scratches to inside back cover fromt proce sticker removal.

WWII 1942—Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal families were being trucked to Beagle Bay Mission, 120 km north, under the care of the German brothers and Irish nuns. Betty

Lockyer's mother was on the last truck to leave Broome on 17 February, heavy with child. Worst fears were realised when the Japanese attacked Darwin. On 3 March, they blew twenty-four Dutch flying boats out of the water in Broome. Men, women and children died. Betty was born two weeks later, safe in the relative peacefulness of the mission. (publisher blurb)

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