Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza

Sister Viv by Grantlee Kieza

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780733343292
Author: Grantlee Kieza
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: ABC Books
Place: Sydney NSW
Year: 2024
Format: Paperback
Pages: 352 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page.

Growing up in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Vivian Bullwinkel started work at a local hospital and joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War II.

When the Japanese attacked Singapore in 1942, she and sixty-four other nurses were ordered to evacuate, but soon their ship was bombed by enemy aircraft. Some of the women drowned, but Viv made it to Radji Beach on Bangka Island, off Sumatra, with twenty-one of her nursing colleagues.

There, Japanese soldiers forced the women to wade back into the sea, and as Vivian felt a bullet slam into her back, she fell face down into the water and then waited to die as the soldiers bayonetted survivors. Somehow, Vivian lived. For the next three and a half years, Viv was a prisoner of war in a series of brutal Japanese camps where she helped other inmates survive the horror.

When peace was restored, she went on to become a giant of Australian nursing -- and was a key driver of Operation Babylift, the mass rescue of young orphans during the Vietnam War.

Vivian was awarded numerous honours for her extraordinary efforts, but she never forgot her fallen colleagues, whose lives she paid tribute to with her service to nursing. (Trove)

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