My upside-down world / Madeleine Poston

My upside-down world / Madeleine Poston

England--Biography.

Personal memoir of young British woman born and raised in Shanghai before World War II. Her father was a promising American architect who returned to the US, abandoning his family; her mother a British subject, stayed on with Madeleine in Shanghai. With the threat of war, Madeleine decided to go to the US to find her father. She made it to Manila on December 7, 1941; her ship to the US would leave two weeks later. The war broke out when she was in Manila; her world turned upside down and she details how, without family but with a few friends, she managed to cope, even though she and some of her friends were suspected of being spies. When the Japanese took Manila, Madeleine was interned in Santo Tomas.

The bulk of her memoir describes her life in Santo Tomas, citing many entries from her wartime diary. She was liberated, as with the rest of the internees, in February 1945, fell in love with one of the liberating officers, and got married two months later. Sketches she made during the time are reproduced, illustrating persons and conditions in camp.

Poston, Madeleine.

Gladstone, Oregon : Benneta Pub., c2002

2002

23 x 16 cm.

Softbound

972281401

CT 788 .P67 A3 2002

13575

x, 302 p.

ill., maps