The girl with the white flag : a spellbinding account of love and courage in wartime Okinawa
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The girl with the white flag : a spellbinding account of love and courage in wartime Okinawa
Kodansha International, 2003
- : trade pbk ed
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Shirahata no shōjo
英文版白旗の少女
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First edition 1991
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This is the true story of a seven-year-old girl's courage and resolve amidst the carnage of the battle for Okinawa. It is an inspiring narrative of a child's heroic refusal to succumb to the destruction and desecration of uncompromising war. New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter.' Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some'
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