Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People and War by Ted Lewin, Yukio Tsuchiya

Faithful Elephants: A True Story of Animals, People and War

Ted Lewin, Yukio Tsuchiya

32 pages first pub 1982 (editions)

nonfiction historical hopeful sad slow-paced

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The true story of the fate of three elephants at the Ueno Zoo in Tokyo during World War II. When the bombs began falling, people feared the cages would be broken and dangerous animals would be loose, so an order was given to kill all the animals--...

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