Product Description

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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #580109 in Books
• Published on: 2003-03-01
• Original language: Japanese
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 130 pages

Review
"One of the saddest yet most uplifting books about childhood you will ever encounter. ... A powerful document as well as a completely engrossing adventure." -Newsday
"[A] moving memoir... All will be touched by Higa's tenacity under impossible circumstances and will be reminded that children continue to be the worst victims of war." -School Library Journal
." .. her unaffected memoir serves as a reminder that in any war, 'noncombatants' suffer grievously." -Los Angeles Times Book Review
"A gripping story." -Mainichi Daily News
"A testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. [It] is a short book that you will not be able to put down once you start to read it." -City life News
.,."an original, candid, and attention gripping autobiographical narrative which is superbly written and enthusiastically recommended..." -Bookwatch

Customer Reviews

The girl with the white flag
Girl mother died and they left with their father .Their father went to the field and never come back the girl left with her sister and brother .The girl was alone whole war.One day she found a dead men she was hungry and she found food in his bag pack she took his food and walk away . Everywhere she heard the noise of bullet.One day she cameto the beach where was burried her brother.Her sister and burried him there because when they where sleeping the bullet killed him.She where lying in the beach and crying.She didn't know how much days she where walking all by herself. Few days later she found a hole under the ground she went there, there was old women and men they give it to her some food, she ask them to stay with them but they told that she have to go. She's gone and when she come later she realize that they were killed.Then she found some piece of material and she put on some stick. At the end of the war she found her sister they were walking with the tears on their eyes that find each other.