A Child's War by Michael Charnaud

A Child's War -Part 1

Three days before the end of the war, we learnt of the Atom Bomb and wrapped ourselves in our US army great...

A Child's War -Part 2

The cargo well decks and hatches were permanently awash with green water sliding over them, and even the...

A Child's War -Part 3

Nearly all were wearing a vest emblazoned in dark blue with the German eagle above a swastika in a circle,...

A Child's War -Part 4

He had very good treatment on the raider by the naval surgeon, and this continued on the Regensburg, and...

A Child's War -Part 5

The strangest twist of this story which at the time as a young boy I found completely incongruous, was that...

A Child's War -Part 6

So it has been decided that all of you, with the exception of the Service Officers who will go separately...

A Child's War -Part 7

An unusual and true story of a young boy who with his mother became a prisoner of both the Germans and the...

A Child's War -Part 8

An unusual and true story of a young boy who with his mother became a prisoner of both the Germans and the...

A Child's War -Part 9

A copy of the Japanese Edition of the Mainichi would be “borrowed”, then taken upstairs and the...

A Child's War -Part 10

The first stage of the eventual defeat of Japan was the steady progress made by General MacArthur in...

A Child's War -Part 11

Each parcel contained things such as Emergency K Rations, tins of spam, Klim dried milk, chocolate,...

A Child's War -Part 12

I followed Tommy amidships and into a spacious cabin to meet the Chief Steward a tall well built Welshman,...

A Child's War -Part 13

Ten days later we arrived safely with no sight of enemy planes, mines or U-Boats at Oban on the West of...

A Child's War -Part 14

In February following the terrible resistance met in trying to take Saipan, the next target nearer to Japan...

A Child's War -Part 15

It was an exciting start to the excitement and strangeness of peace to see at such close quarters at just...

A Child's War -Part 16

An unusual and true story of a young boy who with his mother became a prisoner of both the Germans and the...

A Child's War -Part 17

Here were the task forces that had crushed the pride of Japan's great Navy from Midway to the Coral...

A Child's War -Part 18

For all of us from the “Nankin” and from the camp in Fukushima it was also a time to thank the...

A Child's War -Part 19

We travelled in stately fashion in a comfortable sleeper across the huge subcontinent of India for 4 days...

A Child's War -Part 20

Apart from the paid passage aboard the Nankin, we had travelled about 20,000 miles across the Southern...