Land Below the Wind
- 371 stron
- 13 godzin czytania
Humorous story of adjustments to life in Borneo, by a Californian.
Agnes Newton Keith Kolejność książek (chronologicznie)
De bevrijding in de Oost
De bevrijdingsdagen van Rob Nieuwenhuys, Agnes Newton Keith, Bep Vuyk, G.F. Jacobs, Paula Gomes, Eric Lomax en anderen
- 125 stron
- 5 godzin czytania
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