Back To Bangka. Searching For The Truth About A Wartime Massacre

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Viking
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 332 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Georgina Banks searches for the truth of what happened to her Great Aunt ‘ Bud , killed in the Second World War. Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured. One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy ‘ Bud Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud makes it to the island, where she, colleagues and a matron tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated. But it is soon discovered the place is occupied by Japanese forces, and two days later they arrive on the beach. Seventy-five years on, Georgina receives an invitation to a memorial service for her great-aunt.

ISBN: 9781761341137