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(More customer reviews)Clio Mathews Wetmore's balanced account of the little known fate of several thousand American, British, Australian, Canadian and other Allied civilians trapped in the Philippines in 1941 is the best of any account I have read. She draws us into camp, making the experience as real as if we were actually there. If I could own just one title about this experience, this book would be my choice. Clio Mathews was 28 when arrested by the Japanese military in Manila on 5 January 1941. She was placed in charge of a room of over 100 women prisoners, slept for 37 months on a hard table top crowded next to two other women, and did her best to maintain order in the crowded room. The story line describes vividly the weakness, fatigue, and memory loss that accompanied the final five months of virtual starvation from October 1944 to 3 February 1945 when the camp was finally liberated. It's good history and top-notch narrative.
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