Physical description

Hardcover book with a dustjacket firmly attached. There is a black panel across the top with the title in yellow print and another thinner black panel across the bottom with the author's name in cream coloured print. The front cover shows an illustration of a Japanese soldier in the foreground and behind him are eight women working in a field, they are being watched by an armed soldier stationed at a lookout on a wall behind them. The image is in black, green and yellow.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'From the library of / Dorothy Verosta' [?] [bookplate glued to first page with the signature handwritten in blue ink]
'J Baldwin' [handwritten in blue ink on the first page, a line has been marked through the writing in black ink]
[?] [pencil marking on first page]

Summary

Sister Jessie Elizabeth Simons tells the story of the sixty-five members of the Australian Army Nursing Service who were evacuated from Singapore just before the arrival of the Japanese, their ship was bombed and sunk and they were captured by the Japanese soldiers and held in prison camps until the day of liberation.