After MacArthur left the Philippines, the Japanese put all the foreigners in interneecamps. This well researched novel is based on conditions and events in one such camp holding over 2000 people, on Luzon. It also describes the forced recruitment and activities of so called ”comfort women” who were forced to have sex with Japanese soldiers. Eventually the internees are freed before the Japanese could massacre them by a combination of advancing US forces and local Philippine guerillas. Rate it a B.
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