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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Sisters in Captivity
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'For readers of Anzac Girls and The Nazis Knew My Name, the incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of hospital ship MV 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 book and radio serial: White Coolies. She would often write of the powerful sisterhood that evolved as the POWs took strength from each other, even forming an ‘orchestra’. White Coolies was a major inspiration for the 1997 Bruce Beresford film Paradise Road, starring Glenn Close, Frances McDormand and Cate Blanchett amongst others.

'Sisters in Captivity builds on those diaries to not only re-live the years the nurses spent as POWs but also learn of the early life and influences that encouraged Betty Jeffrey into a life of nursing, and the outstanding work she carried out for the rest of her life. Featuring personal photos of Betty courtesy of her family and her drawings from the prison camps.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2023 .
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      Extent: 352p.
      Note/s:
      •  Published 5 July 2023

      ISBN: 9781761109089
Form: audiobook
    • Cammeray, Cremorne - Mosman - Northbridge area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Simon and Schuster Australia , 2023 .
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      Extent: 11 hours and 6 minutesp.
      Note/s:
      • Published July 4, 2023
      ISBN: 9781761109102

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Last amended 20 Aug 2024 12:54:13
Subjects:
  • Sumatera,
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    Indonesia,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • 1942-1945
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