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

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...

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Main Author: Lascher, Bill (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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