In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses As Pows
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the darkest chapter of the Pacific War, a group of Australian nurses found themselves not in the safety of field hospitals, but behind the wire of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps — and Jessie Elizabeth Simons was one of them. In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses as POWs is a gripping first-hand account that chronicles the extraordinary courage, resilience, and humanity of the women who served in the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps and were captured following the fall of Singapore in 1942. Simons details the harrowing conditions of internment — disease, starvation, and relentless uncertainty — alongside the remarkable solidarity that sustained these women through years of captivity. Beyond its power as a personal testimony, this work stands as a vital document of wartime history, illuminating the often-overlooked contributions and sacrifices of female military personnel in the Second World War. Simons writes with clarity and unflinching honesty, neither sensationalising suffering nor diminishing it, offering a narrative that is at once deeply human and historically significant. With a foreword by Col. A.M. Sage of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, the book carries the weight of institutional recognition — a reminder that these women's stories demanded to be told. For anyone who believes they understand the full cost of war, In Japanese Hands will compel a profound reconsideration.
Author: Jessie Elizabeth Simons
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, William Heinemann
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
In the darkest chapter of the Pacific War, a group of Australian nurses found themselves not in the safety of field hospitals, but behind the wire of Japanese prisoner-of-war camps — and Jessie Elizabeth Simons was one of them. In Japanese Hands: Australian Nurses as POWs is a gripping first-hand account that chronicles the extraordinary courage, resilience, and humanity of the women who served in the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps and were captured following the fall of Singapore in 1942. Simons details the harrowing conditions of internment — disease, starvation, and relentless uncertainty — alongside the remarkable solidarity that sustained these women through years of captivity. Beyond its power as a personal testimony, this work stands as a vital document of wartime history, illuminating the often-overlooked contributions and sacrifices of female military personnel in the Second World War. Simons writes with clarity and unflinching honesty, neither sensationalising suffering nor diminishing it, offering a narrative that is at once deeply human and historically significant. With a foreword by Col. A.M. Sage of the Royal Australian Army Nursing Corps, the book carries the weight of institutional recognition — a reminder that these women's stories demanded to be told. For anyone who believes they understand the full cost of war, In Japanese Hands will compel a profound reconsideration.