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When the Japanese swept through Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith was captured with her two-year-old son. Even though keeping notes was a capital offence, she wrote a diary on the backs of labels and in the margins of old newspapers, which she buried in tins or sewed inside her sons home-made toys. Unlike many other narrators of camp life, Agnes Keith gives an honest and rounded description of her Japanese captors. The camp commander, Colonel Suga, was responsible for a forced march which killed all but three out of 2,970 prisoners; yet he regularly took children for joy-rides in his car, stuffing them with sweets, and sent them back to camp with armfuls of flowers from his garden
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Three came home, Agnes Newton Keith
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1985
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- Titolo
- Three came home
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Agnes Newton Keith
- Editore
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Pubblicato
- 1985
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 0907871267
- ISBN13
- 9780907871262
- Serie
- Trilogia del Borneo
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storia, Storie vere, Biografie, Autobiografie e memorie, Storia Militare, Guerre, Seconda guerra mondiale, Asia
- Valutazione
- 4,15 su 5
- Descrizione
- When the Japanese swept through Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith was captured with her two-year-old son. Even though keeping notes was a capital offence, she wrote a diary on the backs of labels and in the margins of old newspapers, which she buried in tins or sewed inside her sons home-made toys. Unlike many other narrators of camp life, Agnes Keith gives an honest and rounded description of her Japanese captors. The camp commander, Colonel Suga, was responsible for a forced march which killed all but three out of 2,970 prisoners; yet he regularly took children for joy-rides in his car, stuffing them with sweets, and sent them back to camp with armfuls of flowers from his garden