num_pages: 200
description: Chronicles the years Ernest Hillen spent as a little boy in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp on Java. He and his family lived in Java on a tea plantation before the war and they were interned by the Japanese and transported to a series of camps.
language: English
title: The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java
titlecomplete: The Way of a Boy: A Memoir of Java
genres: Biography, Asia, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, History, World War II
ratings_count: 157
publisher: Penguin Books