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They hoped, somehow, to reach Australia and safety. Instead, the Vyner Brooke was bombed and sunk by Japanese aircraft off the coast of Sumatra and survivors left to struggle for long hours,even days,battling strong currents to reach shore exhausted, only for some of them, chiefly Australian nurses, to be slaughtered by Japanese troops on the beach.
The author, then not in his teens, escaped the massacre to pass with his mother and sisters and his infant nephew into a cruel captivity and to suffer a terrible bereavement.
This is his personal story, honestly told, all seen through the eyes of a young boy overwhelmed by events he could not possibly reconcile with the sheltered life he had previously led yet, for his even younger nephew's sake, assuming a caring responsibility far beyond his years.
The book has a Foreword by The Countess Mountbatten of Burma.
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The Author now lives in Queensland, Australia.
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