WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ERIC LOMAX Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the
A Town Like Alice
โ Scribed by Nevil Shute
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 198 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
"A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance."
HARPER'S
A TOWN LIKE ALICE tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life....
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