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The Fleet in the Window
Vintage paperback
Hardcover
First published January 1, 1961
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David Bergamini
48 books3 followersDavid Howland Bergamini was an American author who wrote books on 20th-century history and popular science, notably mathematics.
Bergamini was interned as an Allied civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines with his mother Clara Dorothea Bergamini (born Hawke), father John Van Wie Bergamini, an architect who worked for the American Episcopal Mission in China, Japan, the Philippines and Africa), and younger sister for the duration of World War II.
From 1949 to 1951 Bergamini studied at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1951 he joined Time as a reporter; in 1961 he was appointed Assistant Editor of Life magazine.
According to Professor Charles Sheldon of the University of Cambridge, his 1971 book on Japan's Imperial Conspiracy "is a polemic which, to our knowledge, contradicts all previous scholarly work.... Specialists on Japan have unanimously demolished Bergamini's thesis and his pretensions to careful scholarship.
Primary source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...
Bergamini was interned as an Allied civilian in a Japanese concentration camp in the Philippines with his mother Clara Dorothea Bergamini (born Hawke), father John Van Wie Bergamini, an architect who worked for the American Episcopal Mission in China, Japan, the Philippines and Africa), and younger sister for the duration of World War II.
From 1949 to 1951 Bergamini studied at Merton College, Oxford on a Rhodes Scholarship. In 1951 he joined Time as a reporter; in 1961 he was appointed Assistant Editor of Life magazine.
According to Professor Charles Sheldon of the University of Cambridge, his 1971 book on Japan's Imperial Conspiracy "is a polemic which, to our knowledge, contradicts all previous scholarly work.... Specialists on Japan have unanimously demolished Bergamini's thesis and his pretensions to careful scholarship.
Primary source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_B...
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May 30, 2009
This tells the story of a teenager during World War II interned in a Japanese internment camp in the Philippines. It appears to be quasi-autobiographical as the author was interned in a like manner.
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