Category Archives: war stories

Boat Baby: An Immigrant Story, an American Story

Posted on April 14, 2025 by moonbridgebooks

The other day I attended an author talk at our wonderful library featuring news correspondent Vicky Nguyen speaking about Boat Baby, her new memoir, now a NYT bestseller. “Boat people” escaped South Vietnam after the takeover of the communist party … Continue reading →

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Love and War in a British Indian Army WWII Memoir

Posted on June 21, 2020 by moonbridgebooks

Uma Eachempati ’s childhood memories of life in South India sound delightful, except this was during WWII and her father, who was a doctor and a major in the British Indian Army, was captured and held prisoner by the Japanese … Continue reading →

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The Last Cherry Blossom – WWII Japan for kids

Posted on October 27, 2019 by moonbridgebooks

I’m an adult, but recently I enjoyed reading a middle-grade historical fiction book by Twitter friend Kathleen Burkinshaw. The Last Cherry Blossom is based closely on her mother’s stories of WWII and surviving the atomic bomb in Hiroshima. These days, … Continue reading →

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