White Coolies Paradise Road Movie Tie in

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.