LAND OF THE MORNING: A Civilian Internee's Poignant Memoir of Sunshine and Shadows

Jean McAnlis McMurdie

Picturing life in pre-World War II in the Philippines, the author introduces the reader to her beloved Islands and to life in a rural mission station in the 1930s. Wrenched from her tranquil home when Japanese soldiers invaded her hometown just four days after Pearl Harbor, Jean was thrust abruptly from a carefree childhood into the realities of a war—a daybreak escape to the hills, months of hiding, a daybreak capture by the Japanese, years of internment, humiliation, privation, and the thrilling rescue at dawn—from Santo Tomas and Los Baños to eventual freedom.