Not many British schoolgirls have grown up to become revolutionary
heroes of distant, eastern nations but Muriel Stewart Walker did just
that. Under a multitude of different names – ‘K’tut Tantri’
and ‘Surabaya Sue’ being the best know – she joined in the
struggle for Indonesian independence after the Second World War and
broadcast its revolutionary message to the world on Rebel Radio. But
she did more and smuggled arms, and probably drugs, to help finance
the new Republic and experienced bloody battle in the British attack
on Surabaya that some have seen as a war crime. She went on to become
an intimate of the revolutionary leaders and finally lived to see
Indonesia take its place amongst the free nations of the world.
Glaswegian ‘Surabaya Sue’ is virtually unknown in the West and,
even in Indonesia, there have always been doubts about her version of
events that many have dismissed outright as a blatant mixture of
outrageous fantasy and dishonest omissions. Snow over Surabaya happily
embraces those doubts and brings a new, spirited account of her
adventures in that tempestuous world.
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ISBN
9781912049011
Publisert
2017
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Monsoon Books Pte. Ltd.
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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