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Three Came Home
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Three Came Home
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.
Three Came Home
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.
Three Came Home
When the Japs took Borneo the author, and her husband and small son were kept in prison camps for three and a half years. This is her account of those years. Some of the material has appeared in the "Atlantic."
Land Below the Wind
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Beloved Exiles
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English Society 1580–1680
First Published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Rainforest Tears
Set in the heart of Borneo's millennial magnificence, a rolling adventure unfolds from Churchill's War Cabinet Rooms to Japan's Imperial Palace as brutality rains down on a guileless people whose hopes for freedom come to focus on a man who fights to save them, his oilfields and the woman he loves. Sarawak, 1937; Geoffrey Portas arrives to work in the oilfields of Borneo. Exotica substitutes the tedium of his homeland and cerulean seas replace grey English winters. Gripped by location and circumstance, life's inertia is further despatched as Vong Tan, the daughter of Chinese timber tycoon, walks into his life. Developing a relationship in a way he never dreamt possible, his life in the sultr...
The Survivors Club
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