TY - BOOK AU - Fast,Howard TI - The pledge SN - 0395483085 U1 - Fic PY - 1988/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin Company KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - lcgft N2 - Foreign correspondent Bruce Bacon has uncovered the truth about one of World War II's most shocking acts of genocide. When he tries to get his story into print, he becomes not a hero but an outcast, persecuted by his own government. Outraged, he is suddenly a man betrayed by all he holds dear, except his belief in freedom and his passion for an Irish beauty ER -