Safe Passage: The Untold Story of Diplomatic Intrigue, Betrayal, and the Exchange of American and Japanese Civilians by Sea During World War II

An untold story of idealism, betrayal, and behind-the-scenes American–Japanese contacts in World War II.

Safe Passage tells one of World War II’s great and neglected stories. In the fall of 1943, amid the Pacific theater’s bloodiest battles, the United States and Japan pulled off an unlikely diplomatic coup: the warring nations agreed to exchange civilian nationals via two ocean liners. Nearly fifteen hundred Allied civilians who’d been trapped in Asia since the attack on Pearl Harbor sailed...