SO FAR FROM HOME puts you on the scene as 4,000 Americans, Britons, & other "enemy aliens" struggled to survive World War II at Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila. Imprisoned in the camp by Manila's Japanese occupiers, the internees developed their own government, food-service system, & even built their own homes. The Japanese forbade their prisoners to keep any records, but they kept diaries & statistics, & even took photographs. The book traces the construction of a community from the internees' own words. From the destitution of near-starvation in 1944, when most people were eating soupy mush twice a day, to the euphoria of liberation by Allied troops under General Douglas MacArthur in February 1945, this book provides a moving account of life behind Japanese lines in World War II. Pine Hill Press, PBI Press. 20% library discount. 40% bookstore discount 5 copies or more. Order from: Bruce Johansen, Dept. of Communication, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, NE 68182. FAX: (402) 554-3296.