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5 stars really for an absolutely harrowing story of WW2 civilian internment in Borneo. Women and children held captive and at the mercy and caprices of their Japanese captors. The tables have been turned and the much vaunted British colonial superiority is now employed by the Japanese who are not all that inclined to provide their captives with an all inclusive holiday (meals included). In fact food is in desperately short supply as are all other goods and a prison economy emerges from the priso
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Jan 04, 2015
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The second book in the Borneo trilogy, Agnes Newton Keith covers the four years that she, her husband and young son spent as prisoners/internees in the Japanese POW camps on the island of Borneo. Keith’s son was only two years old when they were rounded up and interned. She and her husband were segregated – men on one camp, women and children in another. With amazing grace and fortitude and without bitterness or anger, Keith shares the story of her life living in inhumane conditions in the camps
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