It is October 1942. From the doorway of this small three-roomed cottage, which houses thirty-two of us, we look out beyond to a steaming jungle in Sumatra. In 1942 a group of sixty-five 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 remaining thirty-two taken prisoner. White Coolies is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the more than three gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. It is an amazing story of survival and deprivation and the harshest of conditions.
By:
Betty Jeffrey Read by:
Beverley Dunn Imprint: Bolinda Country of Publication: Australia Edition: Unabridged Dimensions:
Height: 134mm,
Width: 146mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 190g ISBN:9781740944984 ISBN 10: 1740944984 Publication Date:01 November 2008 Audience:
General/trade
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ELT Advanced
Format:CD-Audio Publisher's Status: Active
Short-listed for Audie Award Non-Fiction - Unabridged 1999
Short-listed for Audie Awards Non-Fiction - Unabridged 1999