Eve of a Hundred Midnights - The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific

Eve of a Hundred Midnights - The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pacific

von: Bill Lascher

HarperCollins, 2016

ISBN: 9780062375223

Format: ePUB

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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


 

The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War IIa saga of love, adventure, and danger.On New Years 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 freighterthe 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 Theatertwo of only a handful of valiant and dedicated journalists reporting from the region.Supported by deep historical research, extensive interviews, and the Jacobys personal letters, Bill Lascher recreates the Jacobys thrilling odyssey and their love affair with the Far East and one another. Bringing to light their compelling personal stories and their professional life together, Eve of a Hundred Midnights is a tale of an unquenchable thirst for adventure, of daring reportage at great personal risk, and of an enduring romance that blossomed in the shadow of war.