Journalistic accounts
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Journalistic accounts
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Until they eat stones / by Russell Brines
Journalistic account of Japan and her empire, published in 1944 to inform Americans of the enemy they had to defeat. Brines was an Associated Press correspondent covering Asia and was in the Philippines when war broke out.
About half of this book…
About half of this book…
MacArthur and the war against Japan / by Frazier Hunt
A journalistic account of General MacArthur and the campaigns he fought up to early 1944, prior to the General’s return to the Philippines.
The author was a noted American war correspondent who was very familiar with the Asian world and military…
The author was a noted American war correspondent who was very familiar with the Asian world and military…
I see the Philippines rise / by Carlos P. Romulo
Sequel to Romulo’s "I Saw the Fall of the Philippines", this book is a journalistic account of the war in the Philippines from 1944.
Romulo recounts his days in Washington D.C. with the exiled Commonwealth government, his excitement at being…
Romulo recounts his days in Washington D.C. with the exiled Commonwealth government, his excitement at being…
Blackburn's headhunters / by Philip Harkins
Journalistic account of Lt. Donald D. Blackburn, an American officer who arrived in the Philippines in late October 1941.
Assigned as advisor to the 11th Division, Philippine Army, he encountered difficulties in preparing his unit for war; it…
Assigned as advisor to the 11th Division, Philippine Army, he encountered difficulties in preparing his unit for war; it…
So sorry, no peace / Royal Arch Gunnison.
American journalist’s account of Japan’s expansion in Asia from 1940.
Gunnison was a writer for the magazine Collier’s and had been on assignment to Asia, covering America’s island possessions in the Pacific, colonized Southeast Asia and China.…
Gunnison was a writer for the magazine Collier’s and had been on assignment to Asia, covering America’s island possessions in the Pacific, colonized Southeast Asia and China.…
Surviving the sword : prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, 1942-45 / Brian MacArthur
The author, a British journalist, presents the horrors of Allied prisoners of war (British, Australian, American and Dutch) under the Japanese, focusing on those captured in the Singapore campaign and forced to work on the notorious Thai-Burma…
One-man war : the Jock McLaren story / by Hal Richardson
Journalistic account of Jock McClaren, an Australian who fought the Japanese in Malay and in Singapore.
He became a POW when Singapore surrendered, and was transferred to the prison camp in Sandakan, Borneo. Together with seven other Australians,…
He became a POW when Singapore surrendered, and was transferred to the prison camp in Sandakan, Borneo. Together with seven other Australians,…
They were expendable / W. L. White
Action-packed journalistic account (written during the war to inspire Americans) of the operations of the US Navy’s Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 in the defense of the Philippines.
Journalist White was able to interview four officers of the…
Journalist White was able to interview four officers of the…
American guerrilla in the Philippines / by Ira Wolfert
Journalistic account of Lt. Iliff David Richardson, an officer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 who fought in Bataan and the Visayas until his PT boat was destroyed by a Japanese bomb. After the fall of Corregidor, Richardson chose not to surrender.…