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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lascher, Bill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jacoby, Melville Jack, 1916-1942.

Jacoby, Melville Jack.

Jacoby, Annalee, 1916-2002.

Jacoby, Annalee.

World War, 1939-1945--Journalists--Biography.

World War, 1939-1945.

Journalists.

War correspondents--United States--Biography.

War correspondents.

United States.

World War, 1939-1945--Pacific Area.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 408 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]

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.

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

Too good to be true

Soldier of the press.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780062375209

0062375202

9780062375216

0062375210

OCLC:

922910401