In the Shadow of the Rising Sun - Olga Henderson

“When they heard the allies were coming, we were given extra rice to have the strength and energy to dig our own graves.“In February 1942, ten-year old Olga Morris and her family were living in Singapore when the city fell to the Japanese Imperial Army in the biggest defeat in history of the British Forces. Turned back at an evacuation ship’s gangway as the bombs fell, Olga and her parents and siblings were forced to take their chances and hide out until, captured by Japanese soldiers, they... Zobrazit více