The War YO-YO Kid
A Memoir
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"The War YO-YO Kid" gives you a good feeling about how one young children managed to overcome fear and make the best out of a bad situation during the ugly war years from 1939-1945. With a lot of faith she adjusted and learned to take things as they were, She managed to turn them into positive and sometimes very humorous situations in spite of certain obstacles.
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About the Book
This is a very interesting story about a very young Finnish child’s confusing and upsetting life by being sent from one country to another during the ugly and devastating Russian-Finnish war. She was sent to a different country, away from her own family, to completely unknown and different people with different customs and talking a different language. The first time she was sent away, she was only eighteen months old.
About the Author
Annelé Jeanette Shaw has lived in the USA since 1962, when she married a US Marine officer.
She is a retired physical fitness instructor. The Shaws has three children and two grandchildren. Two of their children live in the San Diego area. After leaving Denmark, she lived in London, England, and Paris, France, before coming to the USA.