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The Little Captive
Lise Kristensen
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Description for The Little Captive
Paperback. How one little girl survived a Japanese Prisoner of War camp. A powerful true story. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMN; 3JJH; BTP; HBJF; HBWQ; JWXR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
'I took hold of the fence and pressed my face into the wire, asking myself what I had done to be made a prisoner?'
On the Indonesian island of Java, eight-year-old Lise enjoys a happy childhood, thousands of miles away from the war raging in Europe. Then, one day in 1942, her friends and neighbours start to disappear.
For two years, Lise and her family were imprisoned in POW camps, surviving starvation, illness and brutal treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors - but they never gave up hope. This is the remarkable true story of a ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447273561
SKU
KRA0010678
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Lise Kristensen
Lise Kristensen was born Lise Gronn-Nielsen in Java, Indonesia 1934, of Norwegian parents. During the Second World War, she and her family were held for over two years in Japanese prisoner-of-war camps. After the war they moved to Norway. She was educated in Norway and Germany before qualifying and working as a secretary and then a gymnastics teacher. She ... Read more
Reviews for The Little Captive
Unflinching . . . a devastating portrayal of a child's loss of innocence
The Observer
The Observer