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Over 1000 prisoners and internees perished as the Japanese requisitioned Montevideo Maru was sunk by an American submarine. "Abandoned and Sacrificed" tells how the nuns, priests, soldiers - many barely adults - came to perish on this hellship and reveals why the Australian government continued to cover-up the details long after the end of the w...

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Over 1000 prisoners and internees perished as the Japanese requisitioned Montevideo Maru was sunk by an American submarine. "Abandoned and Sacrificed" tells how the nuns, priests, soldiers - many barely adults - came to perish on this hellship and reveals why the Australian government continued to cover-up the details long after the end of the w...
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Dr. Kathryn Spurling served with the Women's Royal Australian Naval Service (WRANS). Her late father FO Maxwell Norris (RAAF) served with RAF Bomber Command during WWII. After securing her PhD in military history, Dr. Spurling tutored history and strategic studies and guest lectured in history at the University of New South Wales, Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra. In 2012 she was appointed a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University, Canberra and in 2014 became an Adjunct Visiting Research Associate with Flinders University.