Eve of a Hundred Midnights: The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and their Epic Escape Across the Pacific
Written by Bill Lascher
Narrated by Danny Campbell
4/5
()
About this audiobook
The unforgettable true story of two married journalists on an island-hopping run for their lives across the Pacific after the Fall of Manila during World War II—a saga of love, adventure, and danger.
On New Year’s Eve, 1941, just three weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese were bombing the Philippine capital of Manila, where journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby had married just a month earlier. The couple had worked in China as members of a tight community of foreign correspondents with close ties to Chinese leaders; if captured by invading Japanese troops, they were certain to be executed. Racing to the docks just before midnight, they barely escaped on a freighter—the beginning of a tumultuous journey that would take them from one island outpost to another. While keeping ahead of the approaching Japanese, Mel and Annalee covered the harrowing war in the Pacific Theater—two of only a handful of valiant and dedicated journalists reporting from the region.
Supported by deep historical research, extensive interviews, and the Jacobys’ personal letters, Bill Lascher recreates the Jacobys’ thrilling odyssey and their love affair with the Far East and one another. Bringing to light their compelling personal stories and their professional life together, Eve of a Hundred Midnights is a tale of an unquenchable thirst for adventure, of daring reportage at great personal risk, and of an enduring romance that blossomed in the shadow of war.
Bill Lascher
Bill Lascher is a journalist whose work has appeared in the Guardian, Pacific Standard, Atlas Obscura, Gizmodo, Portland Monthly, and elsewhere. He was a 2011 Knight Digital Media Center multimedia and convergence fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Graduate School of Journalism. Lascher is a graduate of Oberlin College, the Annenberg School for Communication at USC, and the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Related to Eve of a Hundred Midnights
Related audiobooks
A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame, and a Family's Quest for Justice Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unknown Valor: A Story of Family, Courage, and Sacrifice from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Leper Spy: The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family's Quest to Bring Him Home Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Learning to See: A Novel of Dorothea Lange, the Woman Who Revealed the Real America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Silence: Britain from the Shadow of the First World War to the Dawn of the Jazz Age Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rescue at Los Banos: The Most Daring Prison Camp Raid of World War II Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How Fires End: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sapphire Promise: Based on a true story of loyalty, trust, and unfailing love Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Cost of Courage Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Champions Day: The End of Old Shanghai Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Code Name: Lise: The True Story of the Woman Who Became WWII's Most Highly Decorated Spy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Forty Autumns: A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Codebreaking Sisters: Our Secret War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Last Boat Out of Shanghai: The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Resistance: A Frenchwoman's Journal of the War Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5GI Brides: The Wartime Girls Who Crossed the Atlantic for Love Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Italian Party: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Daughters Of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Escaping Hitler: Stories Of Courage And Endurance On The Freedom Trails Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLara: The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Spy Princess: The Life of Noor Inayat Khan Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sipping From The Nile: My Exodus from Egypt Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Night Portrait: A Novel of World War II and da Vinci's Italy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Love in the Blitz: The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved on the Front Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Embassy: The Dutch Mission of 1795 and the Forgotten History of Western Encounters with China Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Saboteur: The Aristocrat Who Became France's Most Daring Anti-Nazi Commando Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Mothers' War: American Women at Home and at the Front During World War II Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Wars & Military For You
The Book of Five Rings Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Diary of Anne Frank Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Shortest History of Israel and Palestine: From Zionism to Intifadas and the Struggle for Peace Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Kill Anything That Moves Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Watchmaker's Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie ten Boom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror in America's Colony Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Korean War: A History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Heart of Everything That Is: The Untold Story of Red Cloud, An American Legend Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Countdown 1945: The Extraordinary Story of the Atomic Bomb and the 116 Days That Changed the World Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Mysterious Case of Rudolf Diesel: Genius, Power, and Deception on the Eve of World War I Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Operator: Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Dirty Tricks Department: Stanley Lovell, the OSS, and the Masterminds of World War II Secret Warfare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5On Palestine Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre during the Second Sino-Japanese War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Templars: The History and the Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Founding Mothers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Kingdom Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5You're Stepping on My Cloak and Dagger Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Four Battlegrounds: Power in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin - Book Summary: How U.S. Navy SEALS Lead And Win Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for Eve of a Hundred Midnights
11 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A good book about an interesting time and place; preWW2 China. Detailed and exhaustive research about the proponents add much interest but slow the pace. For a recent Stanford grad, Melville Jacoby managed to be in the right place and talk to the right people in these tumultuous times.