The Little Captive

<p><i>''I took hold of the fence and pressed my face into the wire, asking myself what I had done to be made a prisoner?''<br></i><br>On the Indonesian island of Java, eight-year-old Lise enjoys a happy childhood, thousands of miles away from the war raging in Europe. Then, one day in 1942, her friends and neighbours start to disappear.<br><br>For two years, Lise and her family were imprisoned in POW camps, surviving starvation, illness and brutal treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors - but they never gave up hope. This is the remarkable true story of a little girl who, even in the darkest depths of war, was able to look beyond the barbed wire, to a time when she would be free.<br><br><br><br>First published in hardback as <i>The Blue Door</i>.</p>