White Coolies by Betty Jeffrey

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges. Pages are sunned. Signed by author (unverified). Small paperback.

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 took 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.