Back to Bangka / Georgina Banks
- Bib ID:
- 10001226
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Banks, Georgina, author
- Online Access:
- National edeposit: Onsite at National Library of Australia
- Related Online Resources:
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- Access Conditions:
- National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
- Description:
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- [Docklands, Victoria] : Viking/Penguin Random House Australia, 2023
- 1 online resource (352 pages)
- File Characteristics:
- text file EPUB 4.6MB
- ISBN:
- 9781761341144
- Summary:
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"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. She knows little of the national history buried in her family but as she retraces Bud's steps in Indonesia, and then deep in archives back in Australia, she is left making sense of half-truths and confronting the likelihood that she may never know exactly what unfolded on the beach on that devastating day." -- publisher.
- Notes:
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- "Searching for the truth about a wartime massacre" -- front cover.
- General.
- Subject:
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- Banks, Georgina
- Elmes, Dorothy
- Australia. Army. Australian Army Nursing Service -- History
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Atrocities -- Indonesia
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Indonesia
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Australia
- Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs
- Family history, tracing ancestors
- History - Military - Other
- Memoirs
- Military history
- Military history: post WW2 conflicts
- Genre/Form:
- Electronic books
- Other authors/contributors:
- Penguin eBooks
- Copyright:
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- Literary, dramatic or musical work
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2023
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