Paradise Road
By (Author) Betty Jeffrey
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
4th June 1997
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Asian history
Second World War
Modern warfare
Australasian and Pacific history
940.54/72/52
Paperback
226
Width 128mm, Height 200mm, Spine 15mm
262g
An account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road. 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.