About the Author

Bravery in Bits and Pieces is Bonnie Byde's account of her family's day-to-day life in the Santo Tomas Japanese internment camp. Bonnie risked her life to journal her family's story. Written on scraps of paper and hidden in the bottom of the children's mattresses, Bonnie kept a record so that her family back in Australia would know her fate.Bonnie's daughter, Ann, preserved her mother's memoir for over 45 years. Bravery in Bits and Pieces is a chronicle of frustrations and horrors of the prison camp. It is also a rare first-person account of a mother and wife's wartime experience. Bravery in Bits and Pieces is Bonnie Byde's account of her family's day-to-day life in the Santo Tomas Japanese internment camp. Bonnie risked her life to journal her family's story. Written on scraps of paper and hidden in the bottom of the children's mattresses, Bonnie kept a record so that her family back in Australia would know her fate.Bonnie's daughter, Ann, preserved her mother's memoir for over 45 years. Bravery in Bits and Pieces is a chronicle of frustrations and horrors of the prison camp. It is also a rare first-person account of a mother and wife's wartime experience.