A 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. 'the story of Stoker Darby Munro's survival is an epic
of the human spirit ...In our time, when the word hero is flung
around so lightly, this book reflects upon genuine heroism. We
forget these stories and these lives at our peril.' Mike Carlton
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