Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. p. [39]-47; 27 cm. In The Atlantic. --Vol 177, no. 2 (Feb. 1946) Published as full-length book in 1947. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. damaged book cover. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. illus. 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " Previous Owner's Inscription. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. : illus.; 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. illus. 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. illus. 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown and company, Boston
Date Published: 1947
Description: Very Good. 4 p. l., [xi]-xv p., 1 l., 316, [1] p. illus. 22 cm. "First edition published April 1947. " An Atlantic monthly press book. " read more
Description: Fair. 0316486264 1947 Atlantic Monthly hardcover; no dustjacket; scribbles inside cover; binding loosening; no marks or tears in text. read more
"this was a favorite book of my grandmother Beez --- I read it almost ten years ago and loved it. i am currently in the reintroduction process --- i love the way agnes keith writes ..."
"Agnes Newton Keith was an American who, in the early 1940s, was married to a Brit who was the Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture in Civil Service in North Borneo. As the war moved closer, there was no official evacuation of any American, British or European women and children. Agnes Keith chose to stay with her husband and they, along with their young son, were interned by the Japanese from January 1942 until September 1945.
Keith had already written a novel about Borneo that had been widely read. On the day after they were imprisoned, the Commander of all prisoners and internees in Borneo told her that he had admired her book and "requested" that she write a book for him about her internment. She did write a book for him but kept notes about the real story which she was able to hide and published the real story after the war.
This book is far more interesting than depressing. What I especially like is Keith's even handedness. She writes "The Japanese in this book are as war made them, not as God did, and the same is true for the rest of us. War is always the story of hate; it makes no difference with whom one fights. The hate destroys you spiritually as the fighting destroys you bodily. If there are tears shed here, they are for the death of good feeling. If there is horror, it is for those who speak indifferently of "the next war". If there is hate, it is for hateful qualities, not nations. If there is love, it is because this alone kept me alive and sane."
There was a film version made in 1950 with Claudette Colbert. I saw it years ago and was the reason I took this book off the bookstore shelf. It was actually on last night but now I don't think I could watch Claudette in an internment camp in full make up. Ah, Hollywood."
"I don't remember how I originally came across this book, but I read it as a teenager and it has stuck in my mind. I remember it being a real page-turner, for a serious kid who liked to read books about adversity and survival."
"Wow! What a horrific life experience for this woman, her son & husband - not to mention the others who lived or died through this! I was truly moved by her courage, strength & sacrifices."
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