Lavinia Warner (30 results)

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Maltreated by their captors and forgotten by the Allies, the women in Far Eastern POW camps during World War II drew on an inner strength, forging a sisterhood strongly reliant on their will-power and humour. This account of their heroism has been adapted for the film "Paradise Road". The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. A moving, harrowing and heroic tale of women POWs during World WarII -the tale that inspired BBC TVs TENKO series, and has now been adapted by Bruce Beresford for his film PARADISE ROAD. Maltreated by their captors, forgotten by the Allies, the women in the camps drew on their inner strenghth and forged a sisterhood that relied on their will-power, their humour and their great will to survive. Tanning; spine creased. 304 pages.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. 304 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Featuring Leontia Flynn, John Burnside, Lavinia Greenlaw, John MaAuliffe and Ahren Warner. (SL#126).

Paperback. Condition: Good. Wars are often remembered through maps, battles and the names of famous generals. Yet behind the headlines and military campaigns existed another world altogether?one of prison camps, barbed wire, uncertainty and extraordinary resilience. Women Beyond the Wire tells the stories of women whose courage was measured not in victories won on battlefields, but in the quiet determination to survive captivity with dignity, humour and hope intact. Published in 1984 by Hamlyn, Lavinia Warner and John Sandilands present a moving account of British and Allied women held prisoner by the Japanese during the Second World War. Drawing upon memoirs, interviews and historical records, they reconstruct life inside internment camps across the Far East, revealing the ingenuity, friendship and remarkable endurance that enabled thousands of women to withstand years of deprivation, disease and constant uncertainty. Rather than reducing these experiences to a catalogue of suffering, the authors focus on the individuals themselves. Teachers, nurses, missionaries, mothers and daughters suddenly found themselves confronting circumstances for which no ordinary life could have prepared them. Yet amid the hardships emerged extraordinary examples of resourcefulness: makeshift schools were established, concerts organised, recipes discussed in loving detail despite the absence of ingredients, and morale preserved through humour that somehow survived even the bleakest moments. There is an unmistakable irony throughout these accounts. Imprisonment is intended to strip people of their freedom, identity and independence, yet the women described here repeatedly found ways to preserve precisely those qualities. The barbed wire could confine their bodies, but it proved considerably less successful at imprisoning imagination, friendship and the stubborn refusal to surrender one?s humanity. History often celebrates spectacular acts of heroism, but books like this remind us that quiet perseverance can be every bit as remarkable. The authors also place these stories within the wider context of the war in the Far East, helping readers understand the circumstances that led to the internments while allowing the women?s own experiences to remain firmly at the heart of the narrative. The result is a work of history that feels deeply personal without ever losing sight of the larger historical picture. This copy is in Good condition, remaining clean, solid and perfectly readable. It is an excellent addition for readers interested in the Second World War, women?s history, military history or the countless personal stories that so often remain overshadowed by larger military events. While the subject matter is undeniably sobering, the resilience displayed throughout these pages is profoundly inspiring. Whether you are familiar with the history of civilian internment in the Far East or approaching it for the first time, Women Beyond the Wire offers an important reminder that some of the greatest acts of courage occur far from the battlefield. It is ultimately a testament not only to survival, but to kindness, solidarity and the extraordinary strength that ordinary people can discover when faced with extraordinary circumstances. Sold, as always, by Crappy Old Books?because history?s loudest voices are not always its most important ones, and the quiet stories are often the ones that deserve to be heard the longest.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. 289 pages, includes index. B/w photos. A clean, straight book. Scan available.

Paperback. Condition: New.

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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Lavinia Warner and John Sandilands?s Women Beyond the Wire is one of those war books that quietly removes the polished helmet from the Second World War shelf and replaces it with hunger, heat, fear, children, exhaustion and women trying to remain human while history behaves atrociously. It tells the story of civilian women interned by the Japanese in the Far East, the kind of wartime experience that does not always get the full brass-band treatment because nobody was charging across a battlefield in a photogenic direction. These were wives, mothers, nurses, missionaries, colonial residents, working women, girls, grandmothers and ordinary civilians who found themselves swept into captivity after Japan?s advance through Asia. The empire on which the sun allegedly never set had, inconveniently, suffered a fairly major lighting failure. Singapore fell, territories were occupied, families were separated, and women who had expected discomfort, evacuation or perhaps bureaucratic confusion instead entered camps where survival became a daily negotiation with disease, malnutrition, overcrowding, brutality and despair. The book looks beyond the wire at the lives lived inside it: food stretched past reason, illness managed with almost nothing, children protected from realities adults could barely bear, scraps of order maintained because giving up the small rituals of civilisation would have felt like letting the captors win twice. There are committees, friendships, quarrels, improvised schools, hidden reserves of courage, and the grim comedy of people still attempting standards while the world has reduced their possessions, diet and privacy to near absurdity. There is a particularly sharp irony in women being treated by history as ?non-combatants,? as though suffering politely avoids civilians if they have not been issued rifles. Captivity did not become gentle because the prisoners were women. It merely changed shape. They fought with ration tins, nursing, memory, discipline, language, songs, stubbornness and the old trick of getting through today because tomorrow had not yet had the decency to declare itself impossible. Warner and Sandilands give these women their proper place in the wartime record: not as decorative victims, not as footnotes to the men?s war, but as witnesses and survivors of a brutal system. This is the world later associated with Tenko , but here the drama does not need television lighting. The real thing is severe enough: wire, guards, sickness, separation, endurance, and the long moral insult of being expected to disappear neatly into the word ?internee.? For readers of Far East captivity, women?s wartime history, Japanese internment camps, civilian survival, or the less triumphal end of Second World War memory, this is a strong and sobering volume. It is not here to wave flags. It is here to open the camp gates on paper and say: these women were there; this happened; do not tidy it away. Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books. A decent survivor of a book about survival, which gives the shelf a small but fitting irony. No glamour, no bunting, no clean heroic poster, just women beyond the wire doing the unshowy, impossible work of staying alive when the world had temporarily mislaid its conscience.…

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1st edition stiff wrappers Fine octavo xiii + 289pp., b/w pls., maps, appends., bibliog., index, Story of the Women caught up in the Japanese advance through Malaya & Singapore. Almost half were to die in captivity.

Boards. pp xiv, 286, Index, b/w plates, orig boards in d.j., near fine The women who became prisoners of war of the Japanese after the fall of Singapore.

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. 8vo pp.289. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 289 pages. clean tidy copy.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine-. 1st UK Edition. 289 pages in near fine condition. Pages are clean and unmarked with black and white illustrations throughout. Bound in black hardcovers with silver titles on the spine. White dustjacket in near fine condition with red and green titles. Lightly worn around the edges, faded on the spine. Some light scuffs. 1ST UK EDITION. NF/NF-. Book. …