Forbidden Family: Wartime Memoir of the Philippines, 1941-1945 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780299121440)

Written just five years after the end of World War II, this is Margaret Sams's moving testimony of life in a Japanese internment camp--the can of Spam hoarded for Christmas dinner, the clandestine radio hidden in her sewing kit, the beheading of other prisoners for transgressions. With her husband held elsewhere as a prisoner of war and with a small son to protect, Margaret broke the rules both of society and of her captors to fall in love and bear a child with a kind and daring fellow internee, Jerry Sams.