Derek Law's Bibliography

Entry Detail

Entry Text: McDOUGALL, William H. Six Bells Off Java: A Narrative of One Man's Private Miracle. viii, 222p., index. New York: Scribner's, 1948.

An American newspaperman's tale of the fall of the East. After a hazardous escape from Shanghai, he went to Java. As the Japanese advanced he escaped in the freighter Poelau Bras, was sunk, rescued, then captured and imprisoned.