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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, Bill Lascher

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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, Bill Lascher

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eng

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 382-398) and index

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collective biography

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illustrations

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index present

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non fiction

Main title

Eve of a hundred midnights

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Bill Lascher

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the star-crossed love story of two WWII correspondents and their epic escape across the Pacific

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

Table Of 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 -- "Almost too good to be true" -- Soldier of the press

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