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Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
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Eve of a hundred midnights : the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific
ISBN:
9780062375209

9780062375216

9780062375223

9780062472045

9780062561039
Edition:
First edition.
Publication:
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Physical Description:
vi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Why should I contribute a little more trash? -- The itch is perpetual -- The voice of China -- The Haiphong incident -- True Hollywood story -- "I'll be careful" -- Nothing but twisted sticks -- "He types on the desk, and I type on the dressing table" -- Infamy -- Into the blackness beyond -- False convoy -- Too good to be true -- Soldier of the press.
Summary:
On New Year's Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members of a tight community of foreign correspondents with close ties to Chinese leaders; if captured by invading Japanese troops, they were certain to be executed. Racing to the docks just before midnight, they barely escaped on a freighter--the beginning of a tumultuous journey that would take them from one island outpost to another. While keeping ahead of the approaching Japanese, Mel and Annalee covered the harrowing war in the Pacific Theater--two of only a handful of valiant and dedicated journalists reporting from the region.
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