"In 1942 a group of sixty-five Australian Army nursing sisters was evacuated from Malaya a few days before the fall of Singapore. Two days later their ship was bombed and sunk by the Japanese. Of the fifty-three survivors who scrambled ashore, twenty-one were murdered and the remaining thirty-two taken prisoner. White Coolies is the engrossing record kept by one of the sisters, Betty Jeffrey, during the more than three gruelling years of imprisonment that followed. It is an amazing story of survival and deprivation and the harshest of conditions."
"On February 12th 1942, sixty-five Australian Army Nursing sisters were hurriedly evacuated from blazing Singapore. Two days later, their ship was bombed and sunk by the enemy and twelve died. Fifty-three survivors struggled to shore only to fall straight into the hands of the Japanese. Twenty-two were butchered on the beach : shot, clubbed to death or bayonetted. The remaining thirty-one were imprisoned for three years in the hell-camps of Sumatra. When liberation came only twenty-four nurses still lived."@en

"White coolies : an account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road"@en
"White coolies : an account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise Road"
"White coolies : an account of the true story which inspired the film Paradise road"@en
"White Coolies"
"White coolies : the graphic account of Australian nurses held captive during World War II"
"White coolies"
"White coolies"@en
"White coolies. [The author's experiences as an Australian army nursing sister in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp]"@en