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Flamboya Tree Memories Of A Mother S Wartime Courage


Flamboya Tree Memories Of A Mother S Wartime Courage
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Author : C. Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Release Date : 2003-04-01

Flamboya Tree Memories Of A Mother S Wartime Courage written by C. Kelly and has been published by Turtleback Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-04-01 with categories.




The Flamboya Tree


The Flamboya Tree
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Author : Clara Kelly
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-10-19

The Flamboya Tree written by Clara Kelly and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


“The Flamboya Tree is a fascinating story that will leave the reader informed about a missing piece of the World War II experience, and in awe of one family’s survival.” —Elizabeth M. Norman, author of We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese “It is a well-known fact that war, any war, is senseless and degrading. When innocent people are brought into that war because they happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, it becomes incomprehensible. Java, 1942, was such a place and time, and we were those innocent people.” Fifty years after the end of World War II, Clara Olink Kelly sat down to write a memoir that is both a fierce and enduring testament to a mother’s courage and a poignant record of an often overlooked chapter of the war. As the fighting in the Pacific spread, four-year-old Clara Olink and her family found their tranquil, pampered lives on the beautiful island of Java torn apart by the invasion of Japanese troops. Clara’s father was taken away, forced to work on the Burma railroad. For Clara, her mother, and her two brothers, the younger one only six weeks old, an insistent knock on the door ended all hope of escaping internment in a concentration camp. For nearly four years, they endured starvation, filth-ridden living conditions, sickness, and the danger of violence from their prison guards. Clara credits her mother with their survival: Even in the most perilous of situations, Clara’s mother never compromised her beliefs, never admitted defeat, and never lost her courage. Her resilience sustained her three children through their frightening years in the camp. Told through the eyes of a young Clara, who was eight at the end of her family’s ordeal, The Flamboya Tree portrays her mother’s tenacity, the power of hope and humor, and the buoyancy of a child’s spirit. A painting of a flamboya tree—a treasured possession of the family’s former life—miraculously survived the surprise searches by the often brutal Japanese soldiers and every last-minute flight. Just as her mother carried this painting through the years of imprisonment and the life that followed, so Clara carries her mother’s unvanquished spirit through all of her experiences and into the reader’s heart.



The Flamboya Tree


The Flamboya Tree
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Author : Clara Olink Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

The Flamboya Tree written by Clara Olink Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography categories.




The Flamboya Tree


The Flamboya Tree
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Author : Clara Olink Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

The Flamboya Tree written by Clara Olink Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Prisoners of war categories.


A heartbreaking account of the persecution and internment of a family by the Japanese during World War II, told from a child's point of view, THE FLAMBOYA TREE is both a tribute to a mother's resilience and a poignant and timeless story. Its simplicity and the universal message of a mother's wartime love and courage infuse an account of terrible hardship with hope and inspiration.At the age of fifty-eight, Clara Olink Kelly sat down to write her very first book. THE FLAMBOYA TREE is a lovingly written memoir that is a compelling tribute to her mother's resilience. Clara writes about her family's internment in a Japanese concentration camp on the beautiful Indonesian island of Java. Clara's mother, who led a pampered life before the war, enters the camp with three small children, including a six-week-old baby. Their father had already been taken away, forced to work on the Burma railroad. Through four unbearable, inhumane years of camp life, the Olinks survived, thanks to their mother's incredible tenacity.Told through the eyes of a young Clara, who was four at the beginning of her family's ordeal and eight when it ended, THE FLAMBOYA TREE poignantly portrays her mother's unflagging courage and the buoyancy of the human spirit. Just as the family's painting of a Flamboya tree - a favourite artifact of their former life - miraculously survives every last-minute flight and surprise search by the Japanese, Clara carries her mother's spirit of love, humour, and bravery through all of her experiences and into the reader's heart.



The Flamboya Tree


The Flamboya Tree
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Author : Clara Olink Kelly
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

The Flamboya Tree written by Clara Olink Kelly and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Prisoners of war categories.


' "Why didn't you try to escape?" That was all she said. I had imagined my grandmother telling us how lovely it was to see us at last. I saw again in my mind's eye the barbwire fences and the soldiers with the glistening bayonets, and felt once more that excruciating fear in the pit of my stomach. Try to escape? Lots of people had tried to escape.'When the Japanese invaded the beautiful Indonesian island of Java during the Second World War Clara Kelly was four years old. Her family was separated, her father sent to work on the Burma railway, and she together with her mother and her two brothers, one a six week old baby, were sent to a 'women's camp'. They were interned there until the end of the war. Clara's descriptions of the appalling deprivations and impersonal brutality of the camp - standing in the baking heat for hours of 'Tenko' rolecall, living on one cup of rice a day - are countered by the courage and resilience shown by all the internees, most poignantly her own mother. Remarkable too is the way the children, Clara and her elder brother, and their friends keep their spirits high, finding ways to play even in the darkest times with death one false move away. Just as the painting of a Flamboya tree miraculously survives every last minute flight and surprise search by the Japanese, Clara carries her mother's spirit of love, humour, and courage through all of her experiences and into the reader's heart.



World War Ii In Literature For Youth


World War Ii In Literature For Youth
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Author : Patricia Hachten Wee
language : en
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Release Date : 2004

World War Ii In Literature For Youth written by Patricia Hachten Wee and has been published by Scarecrow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Education categories.


This comprehensive volume provides a wealth of information with annotated listings of more than 3,500 titles--a broad sampling of books on the war years 1939-1945. Includes both fiction and nonfiction works about all aspects of the war. Professional resources for educators aligned to the educational standards for social studies; technical references; periodicals and electronic resources; a directory of WWII museums, memorials, and other institutions; and topics for exploration complement this excellent library and classroom resource.



Book Lust To Go


Book Lust To Go
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Author : Nancy Pearl
language : en
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
Release Date : 2010-06-01

Book Lust To Go written by Nancy Pearl and has been published by Sasquatch Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-01 with Literary Criticism categories.


Adventure is just a book away as bestselling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations — both worldly and imagined — around the globe. From Las Vegas to the Land of Oz, Naples to Nigeria, Philadelphia to Provence, Nancy Pearl guides readers to the very best fiction and nonfiction to read about each destination. Even within one country, she traverses decades to suggest titles that effortlessly capture the different eras that make up a region’s unique history. This enthusiastic literary globetrotting guide includes stops in Korea, Sweden, Afghanistan, Albania, Parma, Patagonia, Texas, and Timbuktu. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. From fiction to memoir, poetry to history, Nancy Pearl’s Book Lust to Go takes the reader on a globetrotting adventure — no passport required.



Private Life Of Chairman Mao


Private Life Of Chairman Mao
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Author : Zhisui Li
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-02-23

Private Life Of Chairman Mao written by Zhisui Li and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-23 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


For the first time, here is the extraordinary true story of one of the most powerful men, and ruthless dictators, who ever lived. Mao Zedong had control over more people for a longer period than any other leader in history. In this intimate biography we learn not only about the imperial grandeur of his life in a country racked by poverty and the vicious infighting at his court, but also about his extraordinary personal habits that equal those of deceased Korean supreme leader, Kim Jong Il, another infamous and idiosyncratic dictator, equally deified and worshipped by his followers: Mao's teeth turned black because he would only brush them with tea; he hardly ever bathed but then received Krushchev in his swimming pool where he obliged the Soviet President to join him. Li's revealing account also chronicles Mao's voracious sexual appetite that led to the seduction of thousands of peasant women because he believed in the mythical healing power of sex. Zhisui Li spent more time with Mao than perhaps any other person. He witnessed first-hand the catastrophic events that Mao's dotage and paranoia sparked in a country that revered him as a demi-god. The Private Life of Chairman Mao is a landmark biography, as fascinating as it is important to the understanding of modern China, and a must buy for fans of Wild Swans.



Library Journal


Library Journal
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

Library Journal written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Electronic journals categories.




New Books On Women And Feminism


New Books On Women And Feminism
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002

New Books On Women And Feminism written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Feminism categories.