The Story Of Billy Young

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Penquin Books
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: Reprint

Description: 415 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: A powerful account of one of the youngest-ever prisoners of war, by award-winning author Anthony Hill. Billy Young was a boy of fifteen when he joined the AIF in 1941. He was an orphan - hungry, broke, with nowhere to sleep - and the army offered him a feed, a blanket and five shillings a day. Then the army sent him to Malaya where he became a POW when Singapore fell to the Japanese. 'Billy the Kid' spent his remaining teenage years in Japanese prisons- he escaped from the notorious Sandakan and spent time in solitary in the barbaric Outram. Billy survived by a combination of luck, larrikin humour and cunning, learned as a market boy growing up in Sydney during the Depression. He has lasted into old age by virtue of his extraordinary spirit. A powerful account of one of the youngest-ever prisoners of war, by award-winning author Anthony Hill.

ISBN: 9780143569138