The Boat

Gibson, Walter: 1952 London, hardcover, 96 pages, illustrated. The harrowing true story of a ship evacuating escapees from Japanese-occupied Singapore in 1942, which is torpedoed halfway to Ceylon, leaving only one overcrowded lifeboat for 135 desperate survivors. Over 26 days at sea, the lifeboat becomes a scene of extreme suffering, violence, and endurance, with only four people—including Gibson himself—surviving the ordeal. In good condition