Description
Title: Women Beyond the Wire
Author: Warner, Lavinia & Sandilands, John
Condition: Very Good Plus
Edition: 2nd Edition
Publication Date: 1997
ISBN: 0099248220
Cover: Soft Cover without Dust Jacket – 346 pages
Comments: Eminent surgeon Rowley Richards was a young doctor and officer in the army reserve when war broke out. He embarked for Singapore in 1941, a year before the Allies capitulated to invading Japanese forces. Richards became a POW and, as a medical officer, found himself tending to other prisoners in shocking conditions.
In a diary, he recorded the horrors he witnessed as well as the courage, humour and mateship of his fellow prisoners. As the Allies advanced, he buried his writings in a bottle in a soldier′s grave and made a map of the site which, remarkably, stayed intact during his transfer and imprisonment in Japan.
Dr Rowley Richards′ memoir begins with his carefree childhood in Australia, covers time spent in conditions which could – and did – prove fatal to so many others, and describes a vigorous and busy post-war career as a doctor. An engagingly personal story, it′s also a reflection on humanity and on the will to survive.
