Diary of a girl in Changi, 1941-45

by Sheila Allan

Paperback, 2004

Status

Available

Call number

940.547 A418d

Publication

Pymble, N.S.W. : Kangaroo Press , 2004.

DDC/MDS

940.547 A418d

Description

Sheila Bruhn (ne e Allan) was born in Malaysia before the outbreak of WWII. She was taken prisoner by the Japanese in Singapore in 1941, at the age of seventeen, For the next three and a half years she was a prisoner of the Japanese in Changi Prison and Sime Road Camp. This book is the moving personal account of a young girl living in the midst of hardship and adversity. Written on scraps of paper which were kept hidden in her quarters, Sheila Allan's diary is a record of the daily lives of those interned in Changi.

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Physical description

265 p.; 20 cm

ISBN

0731812425 / 9780731812424
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