Physical description

Green cloth bound book with a gold compass symbol on the front cover and gold printed heading and author on the spine.

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

'To Shirley / With love & best wishes / From Janet, 1-4-1954.' [Handwritten in black ink on verso of first page]
'From the library of / Dorothy Verosta' [?] [Printed and handsigned on the bottom of a bookplate sticker attached to verso of first page]
'With best wishes / Betty Jeffrey.' [Handwritten in black ink on title page]

Summary

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 murdered and the remainder taken prisoner. this engrossing record was kept by one of the surviving sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the three-and-a-half gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. [From Trove]