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100 1 $aSpiteri, David,$eauthor.
245 10 $aStoker Munro :$bsurvivor /$cDavid Spiteri.
264 1 $aSydney, NSW, Australia :$bHarperCollins Publishers,$c2014.
300 $a263 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (page 261).
520 $aA simple, moving, vivid and heartbreaking account of one young sailor's eventful war. I heard the cries of scared men yelling they couldn't swim, but they jumped in regardless. I pulled off my new boots, dropped them on the deck and, clutching my tobacco tin, jumped overboard, feet first ... We were a good distance away from the sinking Perth when two more torpedoes slammed into it and we watched silently as our ship slid under. Suddenly we were alone at sea in a pitch-black night in an overcrowded Carley float. Someone said, 'Goodbye, gallant one.' Stoker Munro was just an inexperienced seventeen year old knockabout kid when he went to war, but he turned out to be an extraordinary survivor. The sinking of the Perth was only the beginning of his war. Stoker suffered through years of harsh imprisonment in Java and the infamous Changi prison camp, as well as the horrors of the Thai-Burma Railway. Then, just as conditions improved, he was shipped off to Japan and another disaster. Stoker Munro, Survivor is a simple but moving account of a young sailor's war, as told to his close friend, David Spiteri. Stoker's voice - clear, distinctive, laidback and larrikin, with an ability to find the humour in just about any situation - epitomises everything that is great about the ANZAC spirit: courage, resilience, and the sheer refusal to lie down and be beaten.
600 10 $aMunro, Stoker.
610 20 $aChangi POW Camp (Changi, Singapore)$vBiography.
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650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$vPersonal narratives, Australian.
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650 0 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xPrisoners and prisons, Australian$vBiography.
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