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Fifty Years of Silence
By
Jan Ruff-O'Herne
The extraordinary memoir of a war rape survivor.
Jan Ruff-O'Herne's childhood in Dutch colonial Indonesia ended in 1942 with the Japanese invasion of Java. She was interned in a prison camp with her mother and sisters, and in February 1944 she was chosen with nine other young women and enslaved into prostitution by the Japanese Imperial Army.
Details: Biography/True story, published 2008.
Format: Soft cover, 256 pages.
Dimensions: 23.2 cm (h) x 15.6 cm (w) x 2.3 (d) / 338 grams.