Three Came Home Author:Agnes Newton Keith Three Came Home is the true story of a woman and her son's internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp in Borneo during WWII. The author, a journalist, describes the conditions under which the prisoners lived and of their day to day lives. — She was recognized as a special prisoner because she was a writer and she was required to keep a journal... more » of her camp adventures for future publication to show how "humane" the Japanese treatment of prisoners had been. So every day, after she completed her required prison work, she had to write for this commander about how wonderful camp life was. But she secretly wrote notes describing what life was really like, and hid them in cans buried under their huts or in the latrines. The story is about survival but also about love.« less