From Java to the World

The Virtues Of Jan Ruff-O’Herne

By (author) Roderick O'Brien

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Extent: 175 pages

Publisher: ATF Press

Subjects: Twentieth- & Twenty-First- Century History

Language: English

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ISBN: 9781923764682

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This collection of articles explores the amazing life of Jan Ruff-O’Herne (1923-2019) through the mirror of her virtues. Jan is widely remembered as a passionate advocate for women who suffered in war-time, especially those who suffered conscription into the system of brothels maintained by the Imperial Japanese Army. But this book goes deeper, and provides an examination of the whole of her life, highlighting virtues which she lived in each of her changing situations.

  • By (author) Roderick O’Brien

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