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The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java

Chronicles the years Ernest Hillen spent as a little boy in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. He and his family lived in Java on a tea plantation before the war and they were interned by the Japanese and transported to a series of camps.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 200 pages

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