“Back and back the planes had come with their hail of bullets, while sampans sank and went under. Back and back until there was but one empty sampan left drifting on the water. Then the planes had come no more— not for one empty sampan. It had drifted silently— empty.”

—  Meindert DeJong , book The House of Sixty Fathers

The House of Sixty Fathers (1956)

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American children's writer 1906–1991

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