“I know exactly where I was on my 10th birthday . . . face down in a tiny, cold, wet tunnel in a Chinese tin mine, scratching at dirt, in the dark . . . gasping for breath . . . I wondered if I might ever be eleven . . . ”
Alice’s riveting story of an ill-fated Philippine vacation shares her struggle to survive four years as a POW, in three countries, with her mother, Nonie. Their mental defiance and fight for life kept them sane, in the face of death and overwhelming evil.
“My mother . . . every day . . . took my face in her two hands and said, ‘You must believe me . . . They will come to take us home. It won’t be soon. We just have to get through today . . . ’ This mantra saw us through difficulties we never realized we could face.”
“ . . . a first-hand account of slavery . . . of merciless barbarians . . . ”
—Joanne Schartow
“Alice turned fear to resolve, to . . . courage, to live one more day. I was not prepared for what she told me.”
—Ted Schmidt, former U.S. Navy
I was sad and furious at the senseless brutality . . . which until now she has been prevented from revealing.”
—John Schartow
“ . . . pulls the plug on all the cover-up . . . ”
—Peter Nick | 
