This is the war-time diary of Jane Doner, one of many American citizens trapped in the Philippine Islands on “the date which will live in infamy.” Jane was a 17-year-old high school senior, born in Cebu City and living there on December 8, 1941 (the local date of the bombing of Pearl Harbor). She fled from her home and hid in the jungle during the early days of the war but was betrayed and forced to surrender to the Imperial Japanese Military. Thereafter, Jane was interned in four prison camps before her eventual rescue and liberation in 1945 by the armed forces of the United States. During captivity she endured fear, starvation, disease and the death of many of her friends, but survived to tell the story.