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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 The Story of Billy Young : A Teenager in Changi, Sandakan and Outram Road
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'The Story of Billy Young is the true story of the suffering - and survival - of an underage prisoner-of-war during World War II. Bill Young, who is still alive, enlised in the army in July 1941 aged only 15, though he said he was 19. He went to Singapore, was captured at the fall, and spent the rest of his teenage years in some of the most barbaric Japanese prisons.

From Changi he was sent to Sandakan in Borneo, from which he and a mate were lucky to escape before the infamous death marches. They were quickly caught, however, and Billy ended up in the notorious Outram Road prison in Singapore, where he spent much of the next two years in solitary confinement.

This is the story of how he survived that ordeal. Young Bill is an extraordinary testament to a young man's remarkable courage in the face of some of the most horrific experiences of wartime. It is also the story of the tragic effects of war and its aftermath on the personal lives of those who fought.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication:

    For the Dead End Kids

    and the POWs of Sandakan 1942-1945

    Not a day goes by that Billy Young does not remember you

    For he loves you all.

  • Epigraph: Sometimes when crimes have been committed, it is necessary to go back and mark the spot... Bill Young Return to a Dark Age.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Viking , 2012 .
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      Extent: xv, 415p., [16] p. of platep.
      Description: illus. (some col.), maps, ports.
      Note/s:
      • Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-408) and index.
      ISBN: 9780670076178
    • Docklands, South Melbourne - Port Melbourne area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin Books , 2014 .
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      Extent: 432p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 23/07/2014
      ISBN: 9780143569138 (paperback)

Works about this Work

[Review] The Story of Billy Young Stella Lees , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 20 no. 4 2012; (p. 17)

— Review of The Story of Billy Young : A Teenager in Changi, Sandakan and Outram Road Anthony Hill , 2012 single work biography
Non-Fiction Sean Sennett , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 - 12 August 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of The Story of Billy Young : A Teenager in Changi, Sandakan and Outram Road Anthony Hill , 2012 single work biography
Non-Fiction Sean Sennett , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 11 - 12 August 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of The Story of Billy Young : A Teenager in Changi, Sandakan and Outram Road Anthony Hill , 2012 single work biography
[Review] The Story of Billy Young Stella Lees , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Summer vol. 20 no. 4 2012; (p. 17)

— Review of The Story of Billy Young : A Teenager in Changi, Sandakan and Outram Road Anthony Hill , 2012 single work biography
Last amended 25 Oct 2017 16:07:37
Subjects:
  • Changi,
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    Singapore,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Sandakan, Borneo, Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • c
    Singapore,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
Settings:
  • Changi,
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    Singapore,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Sandakan, Borneo, Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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    Singapore,
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    Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • ca. 1940s
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