Horror Camp (1965) By John Slater
 
A novel with a group of young American nurses trying to evade the Japanese on an island off Papua New Guinea, while a group of Australian POWs plot their escape from the Japanese so that can rescue the nurses. The local New Guineans also play a significant role in the story.
 
The cover by Col Cameron on the Second edition (above) is typical of the Slater books, but gives the wrong impression of the story. The nurses were never actually held captive by the Japanese, and there were only three, not the five on the cover. The girls were also never as scantily dressed as the cover suggests. The archetypical drawing of a mean looking Japanese soldier, with the ubiquitous samurai sword, completes the effect that the publishers were after. 
 
Soft Cover
130 Pages
In Good Condition