One hundred and thirty cartoons drawn by a teenage girl during 37 months in a Japanese prison camp, Manila, Philippines.Teedie Cowie Woodcock crowded her cheerful little pencil sketches of day-to-day prison life on scraps of cheap paper and assembled these pages into a small booklet as a present to her mother on Christmas Day, 1944. They were the only material gift she had to give.Unearthed after 55 years. Computer restored to remove mildew stains and crease marks.A fascinating view inside a civilian prison camp during WWII ...
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One hundred and thirty cartoons drawn by a teenage girl during 37 months in a Japanese prison camp, Manila, Philippines.Teedie Cowie Woodcock crowded her cheerful little pencil sketches of day-to-day prison life on scraps of cheap paper and assembled these pages into a small booklet as a present to her mother on Christmas Day, 1944. They were the only material gift she had to give.Unearthed after 55 years. Computer restored to remove mildew stains and crease marks.A fascinating view inside a civilian prison camp during WWII. A tribute to the courage and fortitude of these thousands of American civilians trapped half a world away from home.
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Fine. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cartoons drawn by Tweedie Cowie Woodcock, just a teenager, during her POW imprisonment by the Japanese in the Philippines. Grim humor of POW life. 176 pp. Small quarto size, 7"W X 10"H. Bright, crisp and clean trade paperback.
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New. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Absolutely new first edition, signed by author. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 176 p. Audience: General/trade.