Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun : The True Story of a Missionary Family's Survival and Faith in a Japanese Prisoner-of-War Camp During W. W. II

by Mansell, Donald Ernest; Mansell, Vesta West

• ISBN13: 9780816319763
• ISBN10: 0816319766
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: Pacific Pr Pub Assn

Summary

A WWII memoir of prison and Providence

18-year-old Donald Mansell, his brother and parents were sailing to Africa as missionaries when America plunged into World War II. Fleeing for safety to the
Philippines, they instead found themselves prisoners of the Japanese army, spending the next three years in a concentration camp.
Donald's world revolved between hunger, weevils, lack of privacy, and numbing routine. He witnessed torture and brutality, fought off despair, and escaped death
several times.
Under the Shadow of the Rising Sun is an honest, gripping, sometimes whimsical account of daily life as a prisoner of war. Through the eyes of a survivor, we discover the role of trials in developing faith, and we see the intervention of a merciful Providence in an unforgettable true-life adventure.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	4	(5)
``The Battle of Manila Is On!''	9	(5)
Sailing Into a Maelstrom	14	(11)
``Pearl Harbor Has Been Bombed!''	25	(5)
Flight to the Mountains	30	(3)
The Enemy Lands Twenty Miles Away	33	(15)
First Encounters With the Enemy	48	(7)
Prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army	55	(11)
The Prisoners	66	(11)
Camp John Hay Concentration Camp	77	(10)
The First Months Under the Japanese	87	(21)
Released for One Day	108	(4)
Life Behind Barbed Wire	112	(7)
We Move to Camp Holmes	119	(11)
The First Escapee	130	(4)
School Behind Barbed Wire	134	(9)
Halcyon Days	143	(17)
Two Months Under Virtual House Arrest	160	(11)
A Bootlegger Gets Beaten Up	171	(4)
A Meeting With the Guerrillas	175	(5)
Two Men Escape From Camp	180	(7)
Tortured by the Kenpeitai	187	(11)
Plans to Escape	198	(6)
Fowl Play	204	(6)
The Last Months at Camp Holmes	210	(12)
Our Camp Moves to Manila	222	(10)
Old Bilibid Prison	232	(15)
Liberation!	247