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A Town Like Alice
1956 · Film · 117 min
Directed by Jack Lee
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute
A Town Like Alice is probably the most popular in Australia, where he resided after the war. Also made into a good movie.
Nevil Shute was an engineer and he wrote some well respected novels like the nuclear war story On the Beach (made into a movie twice), A Town like Alice (made into a film and TV series), and No Highway (sometimes called No Highway in the Sky after the title of the film based on it), which actually deals with aircraft engineering and the problems involved in designing early jet airliners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevil_Shute