Research Catalog

Title

Three came home : a woman's ordeal in a Japanese prison camp / Agnes Keith.

Author

Keith, Agnes Newton.

Publication

London : Eland, 1985.

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Description

[320] p.

Summary

When the Japanese swept through Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith was captured with her two-year-old son. Even though keeping notes was a capital offence, she wrote a diary on the backs of labels and in the margins of old newspapers, which she buried in tins or sewed inside her sons home-made toys. Unlike many other narrators of camp life, Agnes Keith gives an honest and rounded description of her Japanese captors. The camp commander, Colonel Suga, was responsible for a forced march which killed all but three out of 2,970 prisoners; yet he regularly took children for joy-rides in his car, stuffing them with sweets, and sent them back to camp with armfuls of flowers from his garden.

Subject

• Allied women prisoners of war, 1942-1945 - Personal observations
• Women prisoners of war > Southeast Asia
• World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives
• World War, 1939-1945 > Prisoners and prisons, Japanese

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0907871267 (pbk) :

LCCN

gb^85045653^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library