White Butterflies

by Colin McPhedran

Overview

A new edition of this bestselling Australian classic. After the Japanese invasion of Burma in late 1941, 11-year-old Colin McPhedran was forced to flee his homeland on foot, across the steep Patkoi Mountain Ranges, to safety in India. Over a three-month period, Colin, along with his mother, elder brother and sister and thousands of others who died, battled the annual monsoon rains, starvation, disease and exhaustion, in an attempt to cover the 500-kilometre journey across the border. This autobiography recalls McPhedran’s pre-war childhood as part of a large Anglo-Burmese family, the Japanese invasion and his extraordinary trek to freedom.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742235387
Publisher:	UNSW Press
Publication date:	08/01/2017
Edition description:	Updated edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Colin McPhedran survived the WW11 invasion of Burma as a young boy. He spent four years in India, a short time in Britain and then migrated to Australia, where he raised a family and lived peacefully in Bowral, New South Wales until his death in 2010.

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