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Guests of the Emperor [Mass Market Paperback]

Janice Young-Brooks (Author)

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Publication Date: August 13, 1990

Author Janice Young Brooks has published several historical novels, including Seventrees, Glory, and Guests of the Emperor, which was made into a television movie of the week entitled Silent Cries. Guests of the Emperor Privileged and innocent, they thought they were protected from the ravages of the Second World War. But when Singapore fell early to the Japanese, there was no escape and hundreds of British and American women were sent to an isolated prison camp, as guests of the Emperor." Terrified, outraged, and abandoned, four very different women must find the strength of survival from deep within--to fight the enemy with their spirit, passion, and the dream of freedom. My best historical. It was an 'important' book I wish everyone could read. The movie made of it runs occasionally on the Lifetime Channel. It comes in two different cover treatments.

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Product Details

Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Ballantine Books (August 13, 1990)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345361989
ISBN-13: 978-0345361981
Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book I have read yet., February 9, 1999

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This is a spellbinding novel of POW women in Indonesia during ww2. It describes their time in the prison camps with so much realism I sometimes felt like crying. This has become my most cherished book - one I can read over and over again without getting bored. I *highly* recommend this treasure!

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, January 25, 2000

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I think this book should be MUST reading for students of the second world war. It is important to see just how much these women survived and how unimportant the "things" we consider important in our everyday life really are. Also how life isn't always "fair" and how we need to appreciate all the good things. Thank you, all who preserved the world, for those of us living now.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Great Read, January 2, 2000

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This was a very moving account of women in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during the second world war. This was apparently very well researched book, using diaries of prisoners.

The characters were well-developed and certainly believable. Readers who enjoyed Marge Piercy's "Gone to Soldiers" or the PBS series "A Town Like Alice" will find similar emotions and intensity here.

Brooks also writes the mystery/humor series ("Grime and Punishment", "Silence of the Hams", etc) under the name of Jill Churchill.

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