Java Nightmare: An Autobiography

Good condition paperback pictorial cover, no DJ. 156 pages good and clean with clear print. No foxing, no previous names. There is a small dampish looking stain on the back fly sheet and a slight warp to the back cover in the same area. Signed by the Author. 'Much has been written about the male side of captivity under the Japanese during the Second World War. But how did women fare? Java nightmare, an autobiography, tells the enthralling story of companionship and endurance forged when women were tested to the limits of their human frailty. This book is a frank record of daily life in the concentration camps of a part of south-east Asia, revealing the horrors and squalors that had to be endured. But it is also a remarkable testimony to the power of the human spirit to survive. Further, it is a historical record of interest, from a period of cataclysmic change in the world's social order. Daphne Jackson, the author, lives in Cornwall.