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The Boat: Singapore Escape, Cannibalism at Sea
Author(s): Walter Gibson (Author)
- Publisher: Monsoon
- Publication Date: 1 July 2007
- Language: English
- Print length: 120 pages
- ISBN-10: B0G8CT7H2J
- ISBN-13: 9789814358958
Book 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.
