Bitter Victory

Description for VITTER VICTORY by Hugh Zachary: A powerful story of three proud and defiant women caught in the forefront of a nation's conflict.   BITTER VICTORY is the saga of World War II in the Pacific---the saga of three women, their courage, their triumphs, their loves... To ABBY PRESTON, a missionary in the South Pacific, the war brings the ultimate test of her faith as she endures the unspeakable misery of the Japanese prison camps---and discovers the hope that comes with love.  For American-born EMI PECORA, World War II is a time of conflicting loyalties, as her Japanese family faces the privation of American internment camps.  But she cannot deny the call of patriotism, as she unlocks the Japanese code, revealing a secret communication the might change the course of the war.  And for LAURA AVERELL---the beautiful, sensuous daughter of an American admiral, a woman spoiled by her easy life in Oahu, Hawaii---everything changes with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, as she sees a man