131 pages, indexed and illustrated with black and white photos. There is an ownership label on the half title page with the named blacked out with texta, else a clean, unmarked and olid copy, though obviously second hand. "In 1942, sixty-five women, members of the Australian Army Nursing Service, were evacuated from a blazing Singapore, to escape captivity by the invading Japanese. Of that group, twenty-four survived bombing, shipwreck, drowing, shooting, sickness, disease and captivity in Sumatra to return to Australia three and a half years later. The author was one of those nurses and this is their story, told with simplicity and power." (back cover)