White Coolies by Betty Jeffrey

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Previous owner has signed inside page, now covered with blank ex libris bookplate sticker. Pages are sunned.

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.