| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 B76 2015 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18455 |
| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .J3
- Item number - B76 2015
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Brown, Grace
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Amazing grace :
- Remainder of title - the unbroken spirit of a Japanese prisoner of war /
- Statement of responsibility, etc - Grace Brown
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc - Scotland :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc - Argyll Trustees Limited,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc - c2015.
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| Physical Description |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc - "In early 1942, Grace Brown was taken a prisoner of the Japanese in the Philippines along with her husband Caldwell and their three-month-old son Iain. Their ordeal lasted three and a half years during which time they were starved and at the mercy of their captors.
For most of that time, Grace had to care for her son alone after Caldwell was taken from camp by the Japanese. She endured the next two years not knowing if her husband was alive or dead.
At her lowest point, Grace started keeping a secret diary, which he hid in her son's teddy bear. Finally, back at home in Scotland, she wrote this dramatic account of all they had been through, which is being published for the first time to mark the 70th anniversary of VJ Day.
Her words show how even in the darkest moments of being a prisoner of the Japanese, Grace was absolutely determined that she would survive and so would her young son - and her family would be reunited again."
- Summary, etc - "Grace Brown, her husband Caldwell and infant son Iain were taken prisoner in Cebu in January 1942. Grace and her child were transferred to Santo Tomas Internment Camp in December 1942 and she had no contact with her husband for the next two years." - Roderick Hall
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Brown, Grace.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of War
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
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