The Girl with the White Flag: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa by Tomiko Higa, Dorothy Britton

The Girl with the White Flag: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa

Tomiko Higa, Dorothy Britton

130 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir emotional hopeful inspiring medium-paced

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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 Tom...

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