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Book, Alice M Bowman, Not now tomorrow ima nai ashita : A true story by an Australian civilian nurse, from the Government Hospital in Rabaul, who was held prisoner with her colleagues in New Britain and Japan following the Japanese onslaught of Rabaul in 1942, 1996

  • Paperback book with a yellow dustjacket that has a sepia photo on the cover and black writing on the cover and spine

    202507006

Physical description

Paperback book with a yellow dustjacket that has a sepia photo on the cover and black writing on the cover and spine

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'150' [Blue ink top right hand corner first page]
'Presented to The Returned & / Services &[?] Nurses' Club of / Victoria. / By : G M[?] Kerr (Wilson_ / 17th November 1999. / 109 A.G.H. Alice Springs / 2/11[?] A.G.H. New Guinea / & Jacquinet Bay' [Handwritten in blue ink on first page]

Summary

'Courageous men and women suffered and the lives of many were sacrificed when Rabaul fell to the Japanese in 1942.
The Author was a civilian nurse from the Government Hospital in Rabaul and in Not Now Tomorrow she tells her story; a story of the Rabaul nurses - prisoners of the Pacific War.' [From back of dust jacket]

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