When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never completely dies. Keeping notes on scraps of paper which she hides in her son's home-made toys or buries in tins, she records a mother's pain at watching her child go hungry and her poignant pride in his development within these strange confines. She also describes her captors in ...
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When the Japanese take Borneo in 1942, Agnes Keith is captured and imprisoned with her two-year-old son. Fed on minimal rations, forced to work through recurrent bouts of malaria and fighting with rats for scraps of food, Agnes Keith's spirit never completely dies. Keeping notes on scraps of paper which she hides in her son's home-made toys or buries in tins, she records a mother's pain at watching her child go hungry and her poignant pride in his development within these strange confines. She also describes her captors in all their complexity. Colonel Suga, the camp commander, is an intelligent, highly educated man, at times her adversary, at others a strange ally in a distorted world.
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Add this copy of Three Came Home to cart. $8.48, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1947 by Little Brown and Company.
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Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 0316486264. 8vo 8"-9" tall; Series: 1947-09-03; 316 pages; Decorative hardcovers with gold lettering on spine. Spine is straight, binding tight. Previous owner's libris label pasted to front end page. Within front board and front end page is the BOMC pamplet describing the book. Interior pages are clean, unmarked and lighlty browning with age. Back of dust jacket is trimmed to fit on the back end page and is pasted down at top edge. No dust jacket.
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Very good; Collectible. The film was remarkably faithful to the book, sanitizing and softening some details because film audiences weren't expected to see Claudette Colbert fighting rats, living in abject filth, or dropping down to 80 pounds. The film is still very powerful; the book even more so.
Add this copy of Three Came Home to cart. $50.00, very good condition, Sold by BARRY'S BARGAIN BIN rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from ISLIP TERRACE, NY, UNITED STATES, published 1947 by Little Brown and Company.
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Johnston, Don. Very good. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. Audience: General/trade. The film was remarkably faithful to the book, sanitizing and softening some details because film audiences weren't expected to see Claudette Colbert fighting rats, living in abject filth, or dropping down to 80 pounds. The film is still very powerful; the book even more so. This is the hardcover stated Atlantic First Edition from April 1947. Other than the very bottom edge of the pages show old moldiness from storage, both the cover and the book are in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc. ---and the pages and binding are tight (see photo). **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date. Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe.
Add this copy of Three Came Home to cart. $55.96, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1947 by Atlantic Little, Brown.
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Torture, inhumanity and female courage mark this WWII recollection of life as a POW of the Japanese in Borneo taken from hidden notes and postwar interviews with other survivors. This is another opportunity to applaud the resilience of the human being and to review the real meaning of bravery.