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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
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1985
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- Titel
- Three came home
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Agnes Newton Keith
- Verlag
- Eland Publishing Ltd
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 1985
- Einband
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0907871267
- ISBN13
- 9780907871262
- Reihe
- Borneo-Trilogie
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Historisches Thema, Geschichte, Wahre Geschichten, Biografien, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Militärgeschichte, Kriege, Zweiter Weltkrieg, Asien
- Bewertung
- 4,15 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- 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