Girl with the White Flag, The: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa by Tomiko Higa

Girl with the White Flag, The: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa by Tomiko Higa

New York Newsday called this memoir of a warhood childhood in Japan one of the saddest and yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter.

Separated from her family in the confusion and horror of World War I, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some of the fiercest fighting of the war rages around her, she must live alone, with nothing to fall back on but her own wits and daring. Fleeing from encroaching enemy forces, searching desperately for her lost sisters, taking scraps of food from the knapsacks of dead soldiers, risking death at every turn, Tomiko somehow finds the strength and courage to survive.

Many years later she decided to tell this story. Originally intended for juvenile readers, it is sure to move adults as well, because it is such a vivid portrait of the unintended civilian casualties of any war.

Dorothy Bouchier was born to an English father and an American mother in Yokohama, Japan. She studied composition with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in California during WWII. She returned to Tokyo in 1949 to work at the British Embassy and British Council after three years in London with the BBC Japanese Service, before deciding in 1956 to devote her talents full-time to linking East and West via music and words. Princess Chichibu specifically requested that she translate this novel. The Japanese Crane: Bird of Happiness, A Haiku Journey - Basho's 'Narrow Road to a Distant Country,' Totto-chan: The Little Child at the Window, and, most recently, she edited her husband's (Sir Cecil Bouchier) memoir Spitfires in Japan are among her many publications and translations.

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ISBN 13	9784770029317
ISBN 10	4770029314
Title	Girl with the White Flag, The: A Spellbinding Account of Love and Courage in Wartime Okinawa
Author	Tomiko Higa
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Kodansha America, Inc
Year published	2003-03-01
Number of pages	132
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.