PRISONERS OF SANTO TOMAS: A True Account of Women POWs under Japanese Control (Pen & Sword Paperback) [Paperback]

Celia Lucas (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1999 | Series: Pen & Sword Paperback

An account of prison camp life based on Isla Corfield's secret diaries, as portrayed in the BBC-TV series Tenko.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Pen and Sword (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0850525411
• ISBN-13: 978-0850525410
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,491,916 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Japanese Internment Camps Philipines, July 3, 2007

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Gordon E. Castanza "meiguo05" (Gig Harbor, Washington United States) - See all my reviews
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This was an excellent book to inform the reader about two of the several Japanese internment camps they operated during the Philipine occupation during WWII. The book is compeltely the transcribed diary account of a young woman who was interred with her mother. The graphic accounts of the drama of human action under stress is insightful and pulls no punches.
This book is one of several about the Santo Tomas and Bagio camps. There were others, and other books deal with them.

5.0 out of 5 stars Prisoners of Santo Tomas, August 19, 2009

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D.J. King "wonder consultant" (Palm Beach) - See all my reviews

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Well done, true story. A friend of my family who had been interned at Santo Tomas also varified everything was on the mark. My friend was 18 when she entered the camp, so her persceptive was different than the main character in this book who was a mother of a 14-year old girl when they entered the camp.

The story is well written. A reader can understand to a great degree the life the prisioners endured in the camp. The highs and lows and how one learns to appreciate the simplest things in life. This is not anything like the Nazi camps thankfully, but a true story of courage, diginty and perserverance thru the difficult years of World War II in the hands of the Japanese. Well worth the read.