| The Boat: Singapore Escape - Cannibalism at Sea by Walter Gibson |
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| Written by Jeffree Benet | |||
This book fast forwards to WWII, and the British surrender to the Japanese...
Only two lived at tell the tale, out of 80 in a lifeboat designed to hold 28. The Boat: Singapore Escape - Cannibalism at Sea is Walter Gibson's gripping tale about how he and a Chinese girl named Doris Lin survived 26 days at sea witnessing the worst of human behaviour; cannibalism, murder, avarice, dispair, and makes for gripping and fast paced reading.
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During an escape to the Netherlands East Indies, one ship amongst many was lost whilst attempting to escape. The Rooseboom under Captain M. C. A. Boon, was taking around 500 passengers from Padang to Colombo. 
