The Flamboya Tree: Memories of a Mother's Wartime Courage - Hardcover

'... that rare treasure - a memoir so powerful and vivid that it draws that past into the present and makes us all history's creatures.' -- Amanda Foreman

'...a fascinating story that will leave the reader informed about a missing piece of the World War II experience, and in awe of one family's survival.' -- Elizabeth Norman, author of We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese

'As Clara Kelly honors her mother's memory we are reminded that not all the heroes of World War II faced the bullets of the battlefield.' -- James Bradley, author of 'Flags of our Fathers'

'Sometimes the history of war hides its best stories, its fine, quite stories...The Flamboya Story is such a story...' -- Alan Furst

'The Flamboya Tree is like a bright jewel found in the dust of fading history. I was bowled over by this book.' -- Carolyn See

The Flamboya Tree is that rare treasure - a memoir so powerful and vivid that it draws the past into the present and makes us all history's creatures. -- Amanda Foreman