During World War II there were hundreds of camps that housed American
prisoners of war throughout Japan. Every surviving prisoner and their
families had amazing stories to tell. Ed and Ivet Bacon were no
different-and yet their story is unique. Ed was an American civilian
employed by a large construction firm that was building a naval base in
Guam in 1941 just prior to being taken prisoner after the attack on
Pearl Harbor. Ivet was the daughter of Mishar Tatars who'd fled the
Russian civil war at the turn of the century and had immigrated east,
finally settling in a European neighborhood of Kobe, Japan. Love Takes A
Prisoner is the true story of how fate brought these two individuals
together and how their families and their past played a role in a far
reaching love affair which began in the early stages of the war up
through Kobe's most horrifying air raids of 1945 and culminated in a
triple wedding. This is a powerful story of how two people from
different worlds fell in love and despite the hunger, deprivation, and
desperation of war would not forsake the nearly impossible dream of
being together no matter what the consequences.
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