Together with a group of women, Jean was captured by the Japanese army. Jean Paget, a secretary in a leather goods factory in the Malayan Peninsula (present-day Malaysia), found herself caught in crossfire of the war. It is a story of how they survived and eventually restored and rebuilt their lives from what the fragments of the war. In Nevil Shute’s literary tour-de-force, A Town Like Alice, he weaves the story of a set of characters who chose to rise above their abhorrent experiences during the height of the Second World War. Like phoenixes rising from the ashes after 500-years, their are those amongst us who roar back at life, never shackled by the pains of the past. Rising above the din are stories of survival, of hope, of courage and of rising above the circumstances. But war stories are not always about violence and bloodshed. It is from these printed works that we learn and understand the way in which wars have shaped our modern landscape.
In countless a literary work, the horrors of war have been immortalized.
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