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A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. A young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the c...

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Main Author: Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : william heinemann LDT, 1952.
Series:Vintage classics.
Subjects:
1939-1945
Australian fiction.
Book/film tie in.
Prisoners of war > Malaysia > Malaya > Fiction.
Prisoners of war > Malaya > Fiction.
Soldiers > Australia > Fiction.
Women prisoners > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Prisoners of war.
Soldiers.
Women prisoners.
Alice Springs (N.T.) > Fiction.
Australia, Northern > Fiction.
Australia.
Malaya.
Northern Australia.
Northern Territory > Alice Springs.
Australian fiction
Fiction.
Love stories.
Romance fiction.
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Summary:A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. A young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life.
Item Description:Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1950 as "The legacy".
Vintage edition with an introduction by Eric Lomax.
Physical Description:332 pages ; 20 cm.

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