The Boat
Singapore Escape - Cannibalism at Sea
Will be published approx. on 1. July 2007
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-981-05-8301-9 (ISBN)
Description
In 1942 a ship carrying 500 escapees from Japanese-occupied Singapore set sail for Ceylon. Halfway to safety she was torpedoed and sank. Only one lifeboat was launched—a lifeboat built to carry twenty-eight but to which 135 souls now looked to for salvation. For twenty-six days, cannibalism, murder, heroism, and self-sacrifice drifted with her. There were only four survivors.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Publishing group
Monsoon Books
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
12 b/w photos
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-05-8301-9 (9789810583019)
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E-Book
07/2007
1st Edition
Simon + Schuster LLC
€7.90
Available for download
Person
Born in 1914, Walter Gardiner Gibson fought in WWII Malaya, and survived in a lifeboat for twenty-six days amidst cannibalism and treachery. Soldier, POW, and author, he died in 2005.