Angels Of Mercy. Far West & Far East

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Sally Milner Publishing
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2019
Edition: First Edition

Description: 442 pages. Ex-Library. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: It is a secret that Australian army nurses from World War Two took to their graves. One was told by the Australian government to make no mention of violation by the Japanese in her statement before the war crimes tribunal.Now author Lynette Silver, known as "the history detective", has pulled together all the evidence and says categorically that 22 nurses were raped before they were forced into the sea and machine-gunned. Only one survived.Lynette Silver said whenever she talked to other nurses, the issue of molestation was the elephant in the room. "It was the subject nobody wanted to raise. They said to me on several occasions there are some things we have agreed to never talk about, but they wouldnt say what it was."That secret they were keeping was the fact that the 21 Australian nurses with Vivian Bullwinkel, the sole survivor, on the beach at Radji were raped. Although there has been speculation for years there has never been quite enough evidence to say this happened for sure because the nurses denied it.

ISBN: 9781863515009