Joyce Bradbury née Cooke ...
FORGIVEN BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
Memoirs of a Teenage Girl Prisoner of the Japanese in China
Joyce Bradbury (nee Cooke) was born 1928 in China with British citizenship. Following the declaration of war by the Allies on Japan after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, she was interned by the Japanese Army at Wei-Hsien (now called Weifang) northern China with 2000 other Allied nationals for almost four years.
In this book she tells the amazing story of her family's long involvement in China, her life growing up in China, the disturbing experiences of the Japanese internment camp, liberation from the camp by the US military, post-war China, migration to Australia, and then employment with the Singaporean police.
She describes her later life in Australia, her return to China to visit the former Japanese camp and reflects on the approach of the Japanese to the barbarities its wartime regime visited on the many peoples it subjugated.
As her story ends, she pays a moving tribute to an extraordinary Australian who was the hero of her Japanese prison camp.
Cover design: Gianni Frinzi ISBN 0-646-39039-2
Contents
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Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1 --- How I came to be in Australia
Chapter 2 --- The Cooke family and me
Chapter 3 --- Growing up in Tsingtao
Chapter 4 --- The Japanese change my life
Chapter 5 --- Teenage prisoner of the Japanese
Chapter 6 --- Liberation
Chapter 7 --- Home to Tsingtao
Chapter 8 --- First-time Sydneysider
Chapter 9 --- Return to Asia
Chapter 10 --- Second-time Sydneysider goes back to China
Chapter 11 --- Reflections on hard times
Chapter 12 --- Thanks Father
Chapter 13 --- The Happy Way
Chapter 14 --- Another view of Wei-Hsien
Further reading
Notes
Illustrations:
Map of China
Photographs
Preface
Chapter 1 --- How I came to be in Australia
Chapter 2 --- The Cooke family and me
Chapter 3 --- Growing up in Tsingtao
Chapter 4 --- The Japanese change my life
Chapter 5 --- Teenage prisoner of the Japanese
Chapter 6 --- Liberation
Chapter 7 --- Home to Tsingtao
Chapter 8 --- First-time Sydneysider
Chapter 9 --- Return to Asia
Chapter 10 --- Second-time Sydneysider goes back to China
Chapter 11 --- Reflections on hard times
Chapter 12 --- Thanks Father
Chapter 13 --- The Happy Way
Chapter 14 --- Another view of Wei-Hsien
Further reading
Notes
Illustrations:
Map of China
Photographs