White Butterflies by Colin Mcphedran

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges.

This autobiography describes one of the worst refugee tragedies of WWII. Tens of thousands of civilians perished on the dreaded Hukwang Valley trail.

Colin McPhedran, arrived in Australia alone, half a century ago, aged 20 with nothing. His extraordinary journey had taken him from his birthplace in Burma along one of the world's deadliest refugee trails of India, then to Britain and on to Bowral in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, which became his home.

White Butterflies is his autobiography. A compelling account of a young boy's wartime struggle for survival, trekking across a deadly jungle trail from Burma to India ahead of the advancing Japanese army. (Trove)