These days it’s common to see people taking selfies. Sometimes they use selfie sticks and these can be very long. We might say that such people will go to any lengths to get a good view of themselves they can share with the world.
It was 1939, the time of the Second Sino-Japanese war. Norwegian Peter Torjesen and his wife Valborg are sheltering up to 1,000 refugees. Norway was a neutral country, so a Norwegian flag was laid flat on the ground. But the Japanese treat missionaries like them as ene...