TY - BOOK AU - Shute,Nevil TI - A town like Alice AV - PR6027.O54 S58 1952 PY - 1952/// CY - London PB - william heinemann LDT KW - Australian fiction KW - Book/film tie in KW - Prisoners of war KW - Malaysia KW - Malaya KW - Fiction KW - Prisoners of war--Malaya--Fiction KW - Soldiers KW - Australia KW - Women prisoners KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - fast KW - Alice Springs (N.T.) KW - Australia, Northern KW - Northern Australia KW - Northern Territory KW - Alice Springs KW - Love stories KW - gsafd KW - Romance fiction KW - lcgft N1 - Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1950 as "The legacy"; Vintage edition with an introduction by Eric Lomax; P.B; P.B N2 - 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 ER -