New York: Hachette, (2000) dj. Hardcover - An account based on original sources including taped interviews, personal journals, and unpublished memoirs, and "set against the Bataan Death March, the fall of Corregidor, and the daily struggle to survive a brutal occupying force. When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan... As the war drew closer to the Philippines, Florence fell in love with an American naval intelligence agent, Charles "Bing" Smith. In the wake of Bing's sudden death in battle, Florence transformed from a mild-mannered young wife into a fervent resistance fighter. She conceived a bold plan to divert tons of precious fuel from the Japanese army, which was then sold on the black market to provide desperately needed medicine and food for hundreds of American POWs. In constant peril of arrest and execution, Florence fought to save others, even as the Japanese police closed in." Maps, photographs, bibliography and index. xxii, 342 pp. ISBN: 978-0316422277.