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A town like Alice

"A tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback." -- Cover, p.4.

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  • "Town like Alice"
  • "Town like Alice"@pl
  • "[Teils.]"
  • "Dell Paperback Collection"@en
  • "Legacy"@en
  • "Legacy"

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  • ""A tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback." -- Cover, p.4."@en
  • "Na zware oorlogsjaren op Malakka tijdens de Japanse bezetting vindt een energieke jonge vrouw haar levensbestemming in de binnenlanden van Australië."
  • "Jean Paget has survived World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaya. After the war an inheritance enables her to return to Malaya to repay the villagers who helped her, but the visit changes her life again when she discovers that an Australian soldier she thought had died has survived. Jean goes to Australia in search of him and of the town he described to her, and sets about turning the community into 'a town like Alice'. She finds both her soldier and romance."@en
  • "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."@en
  • "London typist, former prisoner of Japanese in Malaya, returns to thank villagers who sheltered her and to marry Australian cattleman."
  • ""A tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback."--Cover, p.4."@en
  • "The story about a young Englishwoman, Jean Paget, and her experiences during World War Two in Malaya and later in the north of Australia."@en
  • "Jean Paget survived World War II as a prisoner of the Japanese in Malaya - After the war she sets out to visit the villagers in Malaya who helped her - Whilst there she discovers that an Australian soldier she thought had died had survived, so she travels to Australia in search of him and the town that he had described to her - Available as a film."@en
  • "Na de zware oorlogsjaren op Malakka onder de Japanse bezetting vindt een energieke jonge vrouw haar levensbestemming in het binnenland van Australië, waar zij iets van comfort en levensvreugde brengt in een eenzame negorij."
  • "Set amidst the brutal chaos of World War II a story about two prisoners of war, an Englishwoman Jean Paget and Australian soldier Joe Harman, whose romance begins during the fall of Singapore and takes them to the vast Australian outback."@en
  • "". . . Out of an English girl's faith in humanity and an Australian POW's quiet courage comes a harrowing, exciting and very satisfying war romance . . ." - back cover."
  • ""A novel 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.""
  • "A novel of the courage of an English girl forced, with Dutch women and children, into a death-march in Malaya in 1942."@en
  • "Na zware oorlogsjaren op Malakka onder de Japanse bezetting vindt een jonge vrouw haar levensbestemming in het binnenland van Australië."
  • ""Her time in occupied Malaya inured Jean Paget to illness, cruelty, and death. Yet it was there that she first heard of Alice Springs and fell in lobe with the gentle Australian and his strange tales. Then something so terrible occurred she knew she would never see Joe Harman again - or so she believed"--Page 2 of cover."@en
  • "Jean Paget and Joe Harmon meet in Malaya where both are prisoners of war. Separated first by their captors and then by the distance of passing years, the two are finally reunited in the rugged outback of Australia."@en
  • "The story 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."@en
  • ""A tale of love and war, follows its enterprising heroine from Malayan jungle during World War II to the rugged Australian outback."--P. [4] de la couv."
  • "The story of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese death march in World War II and an Australian soldier, also prisoner of war, who offered to help her. A celebration of the young woman's bravery, not only in the Malayan jungles, but also in the Australian Outback, where with the same initiative and energy, she sets about creating a town like Alice."@en
  • "A party of 80 Dutch women and children were collected near Padang and marched out of this area for 2 1/2 years with only about 30 surviving."@en
  • "Tells the story of a young woman who survived a Japanese death march in World War II and of an Australian soldier who offered to help her."@en
  • "De la Malaisie occupée par les Japonais à la brousse australienne. Un roman feuilleton, sauce amour, guerre et retrouvailles."
  • "Since the end of her incredible struggle to survive the desperate hardships of Japanese-occupied Malaya, Jean Paget has lived a quietly anonymous life. But an unexpected inheritance and the desire to repay long remembered kindness sends her back across the world to the place which holds memories of both horror and great tenderness. And news of what seems like a miracle reawakens old longings and hopes for a love which had barely begun and has yet to be fulfilled."@en
  • "In 1940, Jean Paget is sent to a women's prisoner-of-war camp. An Australian prisoner risks his life to obtain food and medicine for the women detained as POWs. After the War, Jean hears that he is still alive and sets out to find him in Australia."
  • "A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. "A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance. 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."@en
  • "Roughly based on a true story of the war."@en
  • "During the war against Japan a group of English women and children are marched across Malaya. Years later, wanting to repay the support given to her by the Malays, Jean Paget decides to return to the village."@en
  • "After receiving a large legacy, Jean returns to Malaya to search for a young Australian she met there during the war."@en

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  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Textbooks"@en
  • "Textbooks"
  • "Radio and television novels"@en
  • "War stories"@en
  • "War stories"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "History"@en
  • "Student Collection"@en
  • "Anglické romány"
  • "Powieść angielska"@pl
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Adaptations"@en
  • "Feature films"
  • "Kvindeskildringer"@da
  • "Personal narratives"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Classical fiction"
  • "English fiction"
  • "Romance fiction"
  • "Llibres de lectura per a l'aprenentatge d'idiomes"
  • "Australian fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "En by som Alice"
  • "Grad kao Alice"
  • "Le testament roman"
  • "Eine Stadt wie Alice : Roman"
  • "A town like Alice : Pied piper ; The far country ; The chequer board ; No highway"
  • "A town like Alice"@en
  • "A town like Alice"
  • "Le testament"
  • "Finale ... als voorspel : de roman van twee moedige mensen"
  • "The legacy"@en
  • "The legacy"
  • "Eine Stadt wie Alice : roman"
  • "A town like Alice : Pied piper, the far country, the chequer board, No highway"@en
  • "Az örökség : [regény]"@hu
  • "The legacy : a novel"
  • "The legacy : a novel"@en
  • "Finale-- als voorspel : mars door de hel"
  • "ha-ʻIzavon"
  • "A town like Elice"
  • "Kroz pakao"
  • "A Town Like Alice"
  • "A Town Like Alice"@en
  • "A town like Alice ; Pied piper ; The far country ; The chequer board ; No highway"
  • "A town like Alice ; Pied piper ; The far country ; The chequer board ; No highway"@en
  • "העזבון : רומן"
  • "Le testament : roman"
  • "Pasos de mujer"
  • "Pasos de mujer"@es
  • "Fem svarta höns"@sv
  • "Fem svarta höns"
  • "Es begann in Malaya : roman"
  • "<&gt"@he
  • "A town like Alice : originally published as "The legacy""
  • "Le Testament"
  • "La Testament"
  • "Eine Stadt wie Alice Roman"
  • "Město jako Alice"
  • "Arven"@da
  • "Arven"
  • "A Town like Alice : complete and unabridged"
  • "Miasteczko jak Alice Springs"@pl
  • "Miasteczko jak Alice Springs"
  • "Finale ... als Voorspel : mars door de hel"
  • "Finale ... als voorspel : mars door de hel"
  • "Eine stadt wie Alice : roman"
  • "Legacy"
  • "Eine Stadt wie Alic Roman"
  • "A town Like Alice"@en
  • "Uma cidade para o amor"
  • "A town like alice"
  • "A town like alice"@en
  • "The legacy, a novel"@en
  • "Eine Stadt wie Alice"
  • "Eine stadt wie Alice"
  • "TESTAMENT"
  • "Town Like Alice"@en
  • "The legacy a novel"@en
  • "Es begann in Malaya : Roman"
  • "Fem svarta hons"
  • "Vārasatvaṃ"
  • "A Town like Alice ... Abridged, etc"
  • "A Town like Alice ... Abridged, etc"@en
  • "Az örökség"
  • "Finale als voorspel"
  • "Viisi mustaa kanaa"@fi
  • "Svapnera prithibī"
  • "Finale als voorspel : mars door de hel"
  • "[A town like Alice] = Una cittȧ come Alice"@en
  • "A Town like Alice"
  • "A Town like Alice"@en
  • "Viisi mustaa kanaa : romaani"@fi
  • "A town like Alice : originally published as "The legacy"

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