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Grace triumphant : the triumph of God's grace in the Philippines : an autobiography / by Cyril H. Brooks
The author was an American missionary in San Juan, Rizal, before the war. Written when he was in his eighties, Brooks recounts his life in the Philippines. He describes conditions before the war, with the gathering of war clouds; the start of the war…
With no regrets : Francis Vernon Douglas, SSC biography / Patricia Brooks
Biography of a New Zealand Columban priest assigned to the Philippines before the war. Assigned to minister to the faithful in Paete, Rizal, he was arrested by the Japanese in 1943 and was never seen again.
His World War II experiences are…
His World War II experiences are…
The odyssey of a priest : memoirs of Lawrence W. Bunzel of the Society of the Divine Word.
Biography of an American Catholic priest and missionary, belonging to the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). Bunzel arrived in Manila in October 1933 and was a member of the first missionary class held in the just-completed SVD compound in New Manila.…
Sunrise to sunrise : one man's journey through history : China, the Philippines and World War II internment / by Vincent H. Gowen
Memoir by an American missionary assigned to China from 1913-1922, and then, when China became too hot because of Japanese aggression, was moved to Northern Luzon from 1937. Interned by the Japanese in Camp Holmes, and, very late in the war brought…
Warrior in white / Lucy Wilson Jopling
Personal memoir by one of the 104 American nurses who nursed the sick and wounded in Bataan and Corregidor in 1941 and 1942.
Also known as the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, the nurses braved extreme conditions and bombings. The author arrived…
Also known as the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor, the nurses braved extreme conditions and bombings. The author arrived…
Mindanao mission : Archbishop Patrick Cronin's forty years in the Philippines / Edward Fischer.
Biography of an Irish Columban missionary who arrived in Mindanao in 1938. He stayed on for two generations, and was in the thick of World War II. He did not surrender to the Japanese but hid in the hill , with his parishioners joining the…
Apo padi : an autobiography / by Clifford E. Barry Nobes
Nobes was recruited as an Episcopalian missionary in the US in 1931, and his experiences as a priest and educator in the mountains of Northern Luzon, based in Sagada, working with the Igorots.
The title is the name the Igorots called Nobes,…
The title is the name the Igorots called Nobes,…
Shanghai wolfe : the Wolfe Ismond story / by Mary S. Ogle
This book tells the saga of Wolfe Ismond, a British national born into a Jewish family but raised in Shanghai. He gave up a good job in Shanghai for a farming career in Canada, but was unsuccessful. He returned to Shanghai and led a colorful career…
Gods, angels & pearls, roses / by Sofia Adamson
Autobiography of Sofia Dimitriades Adamson, an American of Greek origins, who moved around the U.S. with her family and wound up in Manila, where she met a Greek citizen, George Athos Adamson, visiting from the Philippines.
Adamson had helped his…
Adamson had helped his…
Beautiful dreamer / Ceres S.C. Alabado
A non-fiction family “biography” spanning a quarter of a century, from 1926-1950.
The family is that of the author, the Santos-Cuyugan family: her father was a medical doctor, assigned to Lucena, Tayabas (now Quezon) province in 1926. She…
The family is that of the author, the Santos-Cuyugan family: her father was a medical doctor, assigned to Lucena, Tayabas (now Quezon) province in 1926. She…