Author: Janice Young Brooks
Year: 1989
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A SEARING SAGA OF WOMEN POWS CAUGHT IN THE CLASH BETWEEN EAST AND WEST.
They came from all walks of life. Some were privileged, some were innocent, some were lost. But to the Japanese they were all the enemy-Europeans and Americans living in Singapore, separated from their husbands and families and taken on a forced march through the jungles of Sumatra to an isolated prison camp. There, they would be tortured into submission and made to bow before the Emperor's war machine...
HAZEL HAMPTON
A timid young American, she would learn to walk the dangerous tightrope between survival and collaboration...
AUDREY ST. JOHN
The Pregnant mistress of an English officer, she was appalled by the squalid camp conditions-and humiliated that she would share them with her lover's wife...
GLORIA DENK
An Australian nurse who loved reckless adventure, she took risk and life-threatening risk-until she went too far...
DR. MARGARET SUTHERLAND
A prominent biographer and personal friend of Madame Chiang Kai-shek, she was forced to hide her identity or face death by firing squad...
In a haunting novel of the horrors of war and the strength of friendship, these indomitable women never cease to believe in freedom, even though they are...
GUESTS OF THE EMPEROR
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