Last Tenko

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LAST TENKO: THE END OF A NIGHTMARE
1945. The American Air Force bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan immediately surrenders, and years of abject suffering and humiliation end for a group of women prisoners in a Japanese camp. Life in their second camp, mn by the evil Miss Hasan, has starved them of food, love and essential medicines. Yet their determination and courage sustain them through death and abuse at the hands of their guards - and they bravely make plans for the rumoured massacre that will attend the LAST TENKO. But liberation to the luxury of Raffles Hotel brings its own bitterness and disappointments - for after their horrifying experiences life can never foe the same for these women: women like the sane and^easonable Marion, unable to abandon her role as leader and resume that of wife; like Beatrice Mason, whose eyesight has been mined in captivity; like Dorothy, hounded for her affairs with the Japs; and Maggie, whose hurriedly snatched pleasures have unfortunate... Tovább

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LAST TENKO: THE END OF A NIGHTMARE
1945. The American Air Force bombs Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan immediately surrenders, and years of abject suffering and humiliation end for a group of women prisoners in a Japanese camp. Life in their second camp, mn by the evil Miss Hasan, has starved them of food, love and essential medicines. Yet their determination and courage sustain them through death and abuse at the hands of their guards - and they bravely make plans for the rumoured massacre that will attend the LAST TENKO. But liberation to the luxury of Raffles Hotel brings its own bitterness and disappointments - for after their horrifying experiences life can never foe the same for these women: women like the sane and^easonable Marion, unable to abandon her role as leader and resume that of wife; like Beatrice Mason, whose eyesight has been mined in captivity; like Dorothy, hounded for her affairs with the Japs; and Maggie, whose hurriedly snatched pleasures have unfortunate results LAST TENKO tells how they rebuild their shattered lives with the fortitude they learned in the squalor and misery of Japanese camp life.
LAST TENKO covers the second and third BBC-TV series of TENKO. produced by Ken Riddington and Vere Lorrimer, directed by David Tucker,JerennySummersand Michael Owen Morris and created by Lavinia Warner
Cover Photograph BBC Copyright by David Edwards showing Ann Bell as Marion \
Jefferson and Emily ^Iton as Christina Campbell ' Vissza