The Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont: by Marie Louise Osmont

The Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont: by Marie Louise Osmont

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The Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont: by Marie Louise Osmont

In 1939, William H. McDougall was a newspaperman from Salt Lake City who quit his job and went to work for the Japan Times, an English-language newspaper in Tokyo, and later for the United Press, for which he covered the Japanese occupation of Shanghai and the fall of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia). When the ship on which he had escaped from Java was sunk, he reached the island of Sumatra, where he was captured and imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945.

McDougall's letters to his family offer a rare and detailed look at daily life in Tokyo and in Japanese-occupied Shanghai during the months leading up to the Pearl Harbor attack. After his imprisonment in Sumatra, he began keeping a daily journal of his experiences as a POW. Published here for the first time are the journals he retrieved at the end of World War I.

Written by an articulate and perceptive professional reporter, McDougall's letters and diaries offer an intimate, personal narrative of conditions in wartime East Asia.
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ISBN 13 9780679434382
ISBN 10 0679434380
Title The Normandy Diary of Marie-Louise Osmont:
Author Marie Louise Osmont
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Random House (NY)
Year published 1994-05-10
Number of pages 118
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.