Stolen Childhoods: The Untold Story of the Children Interned by the Japanese in the Second World War

Author:

Tyrer, Nicola

Publisher:

Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) - Orion Publishing Co

Price: £7.99

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.

Extent	416 pages, Illustrations, ports.	ISBN	9780753829318
Size	N/A	Price	£7.99
Format	N/A	Published	10 May 2012
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