A Boy's War

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A Boy’s War

A missionary son writes A BOY’S WAR, telling of imprisonment by the Japanese in a Chinese compound. David Michell reads his own account of those war years seen through his own eyes as a young boy separated from his parents for 6 long years.

This is a true story of a boy in China in a Japanese concentration camp during World War II. Yet it is an account more about children and their adventures than the atrocities of a death camp. And it reveals glimpses of Olympic Gold Medalist ERIC LIDDELL (his Sunday School teacher) not inluded in Chariots of Fire. What might have been simply a tale of an agonizing separation of a schoolboy from his parents--a separation that spanned six years and included war, danger, malnutrition, and tragedy--is a story that lights up with adventure, ingenuity, heroism, and hope. The unquenchability of the human spirit under extreme pressure and the influence of godly faith and sacrificial example in hard circumstances shine through.

Dr. David J. Michell was born in China, son of Australians Walter and Reba Michell of the China Inland Mission. He was at Cheffo School in Northeast China when the Japanese took students and staff captive. After liberation, he finished high school and college in Australia, then went to England for studies at London Bible College and London University. He joined Overseas Missionary Fellowship, served two terms in Japan, and he married fellow missionary Joan Petrie. Their four children were all born in Japan. The Michells later settled in Toronto, when OMF appointed David National Director for Canada in 1975. On Christmas Eve, 1997 David was tragically killed in an automobile accident in Torronot, a few years after he recorded this book on CD about his childhood experiences.

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