Bøger af Uma Eachempati

Susila encouraged her husband to do his part in the war. But after he is captured, she wonders how she cansurvive without him.Susila encouraged Rao, her husband and a physician, to do his part for India during World War II, but after he is captured and held prisoner in a Japanese internment camp, she wonders how she can survive without him. "Can I do it alone?" She's not sure.As a child bride, and now a young woman with two small daughters, her identity is wrapped around her husband and her role asa wife. Now, even though she and her girls have moved in with her parents, she is distraught without Rao and fears constantly for his safety. How long can the war drag on? And when Rao returns, what will he be like? What will their life together be like?

Rao, a physician in the Indian Army, a branch of the British Army fighting for the Allies in World War II, left his home for the war front. On his departure, his wife Susila, with their two children returned to her maternal home in Madras to live out the years of suspense, threats of bombing and constant fear for his safety. Within six months, he became a prisoner of the Japanese at the infamous Changi Prison.What will their life be like, if he does not return? This memoir is a tribute to the nameless women who endured uncertainty and fear with unwavering love; the story of the woman behind every soldier.