Captured

"More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps following Japan's late-December 1941 victories in Manila. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps - the crowded housing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labor, and increasingly severe malnourishment that made the internees' rescue a race with starvation. Frances B. Cogan explores the events behind this nearly four-year captivity, explaining how and why this little-known internment occurred. A thorough historical account, the book addresses several controversial issues about the internment, including Japanese intentions toward their prisoners and the U.S. State Department's role in allowing the presence of American civilians in the Philippines during wartime."--BOOK JACKET.