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A simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin, jumped overboard, feet first ... We were a good distance away from the sinking Perth when two more torpedoes slammed into it and we watched silently as our ship slid under. Suddenly we were alone at sea in a pitch-black night in an overcrowded Carley float. Someone said, 'Goodbye, gallant one.' Stoker Munro was just an inexperienced…
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1 edition- Other · English · 2014Harpercollins · 263 pages · 9780732298913
Prisoners of warAustralian Naval operationsAustralian Prisoners and prisonsBurma-Siam RailroadWorld War, 1939-1945Australian Personal narrativesChangi POW Camp (Changi, Singapore)Biography