Life and Liberation during WWII Set
Running with the Tiger: A Memoir of an Extraordinary Young Woman’s Life (Paperback) Ansie Lee Sperry’s beautiful and witty memoir combines passages from her personal diary historical research photos and sketches to portray the fascinating life of a woman who lived in challenging times.Ansie grew up in a prominent Hong Kong family one of fourteen children in a household with four mothers. Sent to England for her education at the age of nine she returned to Hong Kong after her father’s murder. When WWII broke out she left her comfortable life in Hong Kong society to volunteer for the war effort in the interior of China. She went on to travel throughout the South Pacific until the war caught up with her in the Philippines where she was interned in a Japanese POW camp. It was there that she fell in love with her future husband. Ansie crossed paths with many famous people including the English author Rumer Godden General Joseph ”Vinegar Joe” Stilwell and his family; Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek his wife Madame Chiang (Soong May-ling) and the Soong sisters; W.H. Donald an Australian journalist and advisor to Chiang; and New Zealand Prime Minister Peter Fraser. Ansie Lee Sperry was born in 1914 the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Zodiac. Paperback Includes photos and drawings Rescue at Dawn: The Los Banos Raid DVD Former captives and their rescuers recall the dramatic raid that freed 2 000 souls from a Japanese prison camp in the Philippines. Includes interviews with four soldiers who participated in the raid.The inside story of one of the most successful rescue operations in military history.Visit the site of the former camp.It was one of the most dramatic operations of World War II: on February 23rd 1945 just a few months before the end of the conflict a combined force of American paratroopers Filipino guerillas and amphibious tanks liberated over 2 000 prisoners who were facing a potential massacre at the hands of their Japanese captors. Incredibly
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