Review: "Sisters Under the Rising Sun" by Heather Morris
This story grabbed me from page 1, and I could not put it down. It details the harrowing ordeal of the civilians that were captured by the Japanese when Singapore fell in 1942. Some were captured in the city itself and some were taken when the ships they were fleeing the city on were destroyed.
The story involves two sisters and a group of Australian nurses that were captured from the sinking ship HMS Vyner Brooke in the Banka Strait. Little did any of them know this was the start of three years of unimaginable hell, including starvation and forced labor. Many did not return.
In a market that is saturated with books about WWII in the European theater, this covers a different segment of the war that I knew little about. The author does a fantastic job of bringing the characters to life. The horrific conditions and elements of their captivity are presented in such a way that you can feel the extremely disturbing elements of the situation, but you still feel compelled to continue. I highly recommend this book.
I requested and reviewed this book for NetGalley.
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