A town like Alice
By: Nevil Shute.
Edition: 1st Ballantine Books ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Number of pages: 279
ISBN-13: 9780345353740
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945 -- Malaysia -- Malaya -- Fiction.; Australia -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Legacy
Description: A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. "A harrowing, exciting, and in the end very satisfying war romance. A Town Like Alice tells of a young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and of an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life.