Shute, Nevil,  1899-1960, <br/><br/>
A town like Alice / 
Nevil Shute. 
 - 332 pages ;  20 cm. 
 - Vintage classics. .
<br/><br/> Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1950 as "The legacy".  Vintage edition with an introduction by Eric Lomax. 
<br/><br/>P.B P.B 
<br/><br/> A novel told partly in flashbacks about a girl's search for the Australian she met in Malaya during World War II. A young woman who miraculously survived a Japanese "death march" in World War II, and an Australian soldier, also a prisoner of war, who offered to help her--even at the cost of his life. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1939-1945 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Australian fiction.<br/>Book/film tie in.<br/>Prisoners of war--Malaysia--Malaya--Fiction.<br/>Prisoners of war--Malaya--Fiction.<br/>Soldiers--Australia--Fiction.<br/>Women prisoners--Fiction.<br/>World War, 1939-1945--Fiction.<br/>Australian fiction.<br/>Prisoners of war.<br/>Soldiers.<br/>Women prisoners.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Alice Springs (N.T.)--Fiction.<br/>Australia, Northern--Fiction.<br/>Australia.<br/>Malaya.<br/>Northern Australia.<br/>Northern Territory--Alice Springs.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Australian fiction<br/>Fiction.<br/>Love stories.<br/>Romance fiction.<br/>Romance fiction.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PR6027.O54  / S58 1952