The Girl with the White Flag
Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, Tomiko Higa tells her own story of survival on the battlefields of Okinawa, Japan. Fleeing from encroaching enemy forces, searching desperately for her lost sisters, opening the knapsacks of dead soldiers for scraps of food,...
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Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War II, Tomiko Higa tells her own story of survival on the battlefields of Okinawa, Japan. Fleeing from encroaching enemy forces, searching desperately for her lost sisters, opening the knapsacks of dead soldiers for scraps of food, risking death at every turn, seven-year-old Tomiko somehow finds the courage and strength to survive on her own.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9784770019462 (4770019467)
Publish date: June 1st 1995
Publisher: Kodansha International
Pages no: 127
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Asian Literature,
Biography Memoir,
World War II,
Japan,
Japanese Literature