Evidence Not Seen: A Woman's Miraculous Faith in the Jungles of World War II,   ISBN:9780060670207

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I have read this book so many times I've lost count. I've given copies of it to all my friends and relatives. Any time that I feel that life is too much to bear I read this book. It reminds me that my problems are so small in comparison. It reminds me that God is with His children EVERYWHERE. It reminds me that even in the darkest of times God has an awesome plan in progress. Darlene was a modern day Job that went on to live a rich and full life. Anyone who doesn't get to read this book has truly missed a great blessing.

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Hearing a tale such as this makes me realize how easy I have it, being a Christian NOT called to be a missionary, safe & snug at home in the United States. The story is wonderful. The production is very well done.
I actually purchased this as a graduation gift for our daughter, who is called to the foreign mission field (I originally heard this audiobook by checking it out from our local library). Darlene Rose's treatment by the Japanese reminds us how cruel Godless people can be to their fellow humans; her eventual outcome reminds us how God cares for us in even the darkest circumstances, and brings us through.

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I have read this book a number of times and have given this to many of my friends as a gift. It is an amazing story.

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I have never recieved the book. In fact this request for review reminded me of that just now. I will have to go online and address this now.

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On the title page of this book, it is astounding to me to find Harper & Row (now HarperCollins) as the publisher. I don't know of one mainstream publisher today who would publish a missionary's story. Yet I've talked with many missionaries of the 1950s and '60s and find that most of them were approached by Harper at one time or another to write a book.

If only it were so easy to publish these thrilling stories for a general audience today! Most missionary memoirs today are published in limited quantities by small Christian entities like the William Carey Library for a small Christian audience. I think people have been misled about the nature of mission work and the character of people who become missionaries by books like Barbarba Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.).

Darlene Deibler Rose's story is, of course, riveting, but it is also well told and deserves a wide audience. That's not true of every missionary memoir. Many get bogged down in the details that might fascinate the writer, but either overwhelm or bore the reader.

You can't help but admire this woman for her fortitude and courage. But it is her faith that is most amazing. I was impressed by her wide recall of Scripture and how it kept her from despair so many times while on the mission field and in prison. I became woefully aware of my own deficiency in this regard. If I am ever called on to suffer, I don't think those pop songs from the '80s swimming around in my head will do me any good!