- Title:
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Sister Viv (MP3)
- Written by:
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Grantlee Kieza
- Read by:
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Brigid Gallacher
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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0
- Duration:
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10 hours 35 minutes
- MP3 size:
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- Published:
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April 28 2024
- Available Date:
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April 28 2024
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781038671721
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; History; Memoirs; World War II
- Publisher:
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ABC Audio
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Price
Bolinda price
Bestselling author
Australian author
The inspiring gripping WWII story of survival and heroism of a courageous young army nurse from the bestselling award-winning author of The Remarkable Mrs Reibey, Lawson and Hudson Fysh.
Bangka Island, 1942. Australian Army nurse Vivian Bullwinkel was just 26 when Japanese soldiers marched her and her fellow nurses into the shallow waters of a remote beach to be executed.
Miraculously, Vivian would be the lone survivor. The Lieutenant-Colonel would also be the first woman to be honoured with a statue at the Australian War Memorial for her extraordinary bravery and service.
Growing up in Broken Hill, New South Wales, Vivian started work at a local hospital and joined the Australian Army Nursing Service in World War II. When the Japanese attacked Singapore in 1942, she and 64 other nurses were ordered to evacuate, but soon their ship was bombed by enemy aircraft. Some of the women drowned, but Viv made it to Radji Beach on Bangka Island, off Sumatra, with 21 of her nursing colleagues.
There Japanese soldiers forced the women to wade back into the sea, and as Vivian felt a bullet slam into her back, she fell face down into the water then waited to die as the soldiers bayonetted survivors. Somehow Vivian lived.
'Kieza is a prolific and successful biographer ... He has a fluid writing style in which he wears his research lightly, yet it is thoroughly annotated.' (on Banks)
Spectator Australia
‘[Grantlee Kieza] writes with the immediacy of a fine documentary … bringing historic personalities to life.’ (on Sons of the Southern Cross)
Ballarat Courier