Marney Blom, author of Shadow of the Sun, appeared on CBN News Jerusalem Dateline to talk to Chris Mitchell about the extraordinary story that inspired her to write this novel.
“(It’s) an against-all-odds survival story that took place 75 years ago in the Asia Pacific War Theater, Second World War,” said author Marney Blom. “It’s a story, actually, about my family.”
“I came across these little, tiny letters. They fell out of a box — (in) my sister’s basement — and when I looked at them, I realized these were the letters that my grandfather wrote as a prisoner in the jungles of northern Thailand (when he was) one of the POWs that was working on the Burma Railroad,” Blom told CBN News.
“And these were letters that he penciled to my grandmother. They were secret, forbidden letters. If he was caught, he would have been killed, but in the process, he was still documenting what was taking place; it was an eyewitness account of the POW’s,” said Blom.
You can read the article and watch the full interview here.