Stolen childhoods : the untold story of the children interned by the Japanese in the Second World War / Nicola Tyrer.
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TextPublication details: London : Phoenix, 2012Edition: Pbk. edDescription: xi, 403 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cmISBN: 9780753829318 (pbk.); 0753829312 (pbk.)Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Children | World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese | Prisoners of war -- Japan | World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- Asia | World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, BritishDDC classification: 940.5472083 | 940.53170952 Summary: ASIAN / MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. When the Japanese entered the war in 1941, some 20,000 British civilians in the European colonies in Asia were rounded up and marched off to concentration camps where they were to remain for three long years. Over 3,000 of them were children. This is the first time their extraordinary experiences of suffering, endurance and bravery have been collected together. STOLEN CHILDHOODS offers a window to a forgotten era and explores what happened when that world was brutally and suddenly shattered. Living on what effectively became the frontline of a war, in daily contact with an enemy whose values were totally alien, they witnessed acts of shocking violence. Harrowing, but ultimately uplifting, internment from a child's perspective is a complex - and untold - story. It is a story that features horror, suffering and self-sacrifice, but also celebrates the resilience, adaptability and irrepressibility of the human spirit.
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Originally published: London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ASIAN / MIDDLE EASTERN HISTORY: SECOND WORLD WAR. When the Japanese entered the war in 1941, some 20,000 British civilians in the European colonies in Asia were rounded up and marched off to concentration camps where they were to remain for three long years. Over 3,000 of them were children. This is the first time their extraordinary experiences of suffering, endurance and bravery have been collected together. STOLEN CHILDHOODS offers a window to a forgotten era and explores what happened when that world was brutally and suddenly shattered. Living on what effectively became the frontline of a war, in daily contact with an enemy whose values were totally alien, they witnessed acts of shocking violence. Harrowing, but ultimately uplifting, internment from a child's perspective is a complex - and untold - story. It is a story that features horror, suffering and self-sacrifice, but also celebrates the resilience, adaptability and irrepressibility of the human spirit.
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