| | Women Beyond the Wire: Story of Prisoners of the Japanese, 1942-45 |  | Authors: Lavinia Warner, John Sandilands
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 413814
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0099248220
EAN: 9780099248224
ASIN: 0099248220
Publication Date: September 4, 1997
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Riveting January 17, 2008
On the synopsis and the above review, I believe both are correct and that this is the inspiration for both "Tenko" and "Paradise Road".
The author Lavinia Warner was directly involved in "Tenko", the much more recent film "Paradise Road" includes a women's vocal orchestra, certainly inspired by the one set up by their real counterparts in this book.
Fiction is great, but I found reading such a good account of the reality was far more valuable for me, if chilling.
TENKO December 11, 2006
I would first like to correct your synopsis
This fascinating and extremely well researched book was the basis for Tenko.
Lavinia Warner was a researcher for This is Your Life when she discovered the extremely close bond of friendships of one of the subjects. Delving further she found out how they had all met - as prisoners of the Japanese in WWII.
Pre-war Singapore is vividly described and the lives of the women before internment. For Tenko fans it is easy to spot on whom the fictional characters were loosely based.
On arriving home they received a letter from the King and Queen
acknowledging their suffering and hardships but as civillians they were entitled to nothing ...
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