White Coolies by Betty Jeffrey

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Light foxing to front and back endpages. Some marks on foredges. Interior and binding are still very good.

1st edition 2nd printing published in 1954.

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 were taken prisoner.

One of the surviving sisters, Betty Jeffrey, kept this engrossing record during the three-and-a-half gruelling years of imprisonment that followed.

A true story that inspired the film Paradise Road.