On Radji Beach
The Story of the Australian Nurses after the Fall of Singapore
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
1 February 2012
Summary
On 12 February 1942, Singapore was just days away from its fall to the Japanese. As the city burned, hundreds of desperate people scrambled to the docks to flee. Amongst them were 65 Australian Army nurses, who boarded a coastal freighter, the Vyner Brooke.
But theirs was a doomed voyage. Japanese bombers attacked and sank the vessel off Sumatra. Those who survived drifted for up to three days before making landfall on one of the many beaches on Banka Island.
A group of surviv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780330404259 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0330404253 |
| Author: | Ian W. Shaw |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Pan Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 1 February 2012 |
| Weight: | 320g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 129mm x 198mm |
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Ian W. Shaw
Ian Shaw is passionate about social history, and stories that resonate well beyond the time and place in which they occurred, and which speak of broader characteristics we associate with being “Australian”. On Radji Beach is his second book. His third, Glenrowan, is due to be published mid-2012.
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