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

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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.

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.