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A Lovely Little War
A Lovely Little War: Life through the eyes of a child imprisoned in a Japanese internment camp.
A Lovely Little War
Angus Lorenzen
Life in a World War II Japanese internment camp as seen through the eyes of a child. The setting is Santo Tomas in Manila,a notorious camp under the administration of General Yamashita who was later convicted for atrocities in the Philippines and sentenced to death.The author was sent there with his mother and sister.He tells the story as he saw it as a child filled with the novelty and excitement of the war which turned to fear and apprehension as executions and starvation became governing factors.The author was a contributor to the 2006 documentary "Victims of Circumstance" which dealt with Santo Tomas experience.
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Genre: 

  • Biography
  • Historical Nonfiction

Age Level: 

  • 12 and up
A Lovely Little War review by MFish_BRINDTO
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MFish_BRINDTO

A lovely little war by Angus Lorenzen is about the journey and life style a young boy went through while living in an internment camp in Japan. In this book you learn about how prisoners were treated, what they went through, and how some survived. This book shows the truth, it is not a sugar coated description of their experiences. Angus Lorenzen tells the story of his childhood before and after living in the camp. He also mentions some of his family members experiences.

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