A Boys War - David Michell

This book was about the Weihsien Concentration Camp. It was mostly told from the perspective of David Michell who was a survivor of the camp. David Michell was 11 when he was captured along with everyone at the mission school he was attending. In the book David Michell talked about how he and his school friends were huge fans of the Olympic runner Eric Liddell, which is a cool detail because later in the book Eric Liddell ended up in the Weihsien Camp. He was like a father/uncle to all the young children there. Sadly Eric Liddell didn't make it out of the Weihsien Camp. He passed away in 1945, only 5 months before the camp was liberated. He wrote to his wife and said that he had a nervous breakdown due to over work. But actually he had a brain tumor that couldn't be operated on. And his death was hastened by the amount of work he was doing. I found this book really interesting in the way it told about the lifestyle of the camp, how they people survived and how they were able to maintain and strengthen their great faith through it all.