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Sisters in Captivity audiobook
- By: Colin Burgess
- Narrator: Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood
- Category: History, Military, World War II
- Length: 11 hours 6 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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Sisters in Captivity Audiobook Summary
The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra.
During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions, Sister Jeffrey kept a secret diary of day-to-day events which, after the war, was turned into a hugely successful book and radio serial: White Coolies. She would often write of the powerful sisterhood that evolved as the prisoners of war took strength from each other, even forming a vocal orchestra. White Coolies was a major inspiration for the 1997 film Paradise Road.
Sisters in Captivity builds on those diaries to not only re-live the years the nurses spent as POWs but also recounts the early life and influences that encouraged Betty Jeffrey into the field of nursing as a lifelong endeavour. A tireless advocate for returned nurses, she co-founded the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre with sole survivor of the Banka Island Massacre, fellow POW, and her longtime friend Vivian Bullwinkel.
Featuring 32 pages of photos including personal mementos of Betty Jeffrey, courtesy of her family, and her drawings from the prison camps, this is a powerful account of women’s resilience amidst the devastating brutality of war.
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Sisters in Captivity Audiobook Narrator
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Sisters in Captivity Full Details
| Narrator | Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood |
| Length | 11 hours 6 minutes |
| Author | Colin Burgess |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Australia |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781761109102 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Sisters in Captivity is Simon & Schuster Australia. includes the following subjects: Nurse, World War Two, Second World War: POW, prisoner of war, survival story, Japanese Army, prison camp, White Coolies, Vivian Bullwinkel, Australian Army, SS Vyner Brook, war crimes, massacre, 1942, Dutch East Indies, Sumatra, Paradise Road, Bruce Beresford, Cate Blanchett, Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Julianna Margulies, Singapore, orchestra, Nazis Knew My Name, Maya Lee, diaries, Pearl Harbor, comfort women, History, Military, World War II, Biography & Autobiography, Military The BISAC Subject Code is History, Military, World War II
Additional info
The publisher of the Sisters in Captivity is Simon & Schuster Australia. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Australia. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Australia. The ISBN-13 is 9781761109102.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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