Child of War: A Memoir of World War II Internment in the Philippines

by Curtis Whitfield Tong

Book Overview

Hours after attacking Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese bombers stormed across the Philippine city of Baguio, where seven-year-old Curt Tong, the son of American missionaries, hid with his classmates in the woods near his school. Three weeks later, Curt, his mother, and two sisters were among the nearly five hundred Americans who surrendered to the Japanese army in Baguio. Child of War is Tong's touching story of the next three years of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824835395
• ISBN13: 9780824835392
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.8"