This is the true story of a seven-year-old girl's courage and resolve amidst the carnage of the battle for Okinawa. It is an inspiring narrative of a child's heroic refusal to succumb to the destruction and desecration of uncompromising war. 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 II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some'
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This is the true story of a seven-year-old girl's courage and resolve amidst the carnage of the battle for Okinawa. It is an inspiring narrative of a child's heroic refusal to succumb to the destruction and desecration of uncompromising war. 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 II, seven-year-old Tomiko Higa struggles to survive on the battlefield of Okinawa, Japan. There, as some'