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Part fiction, part memoir of the author’s experiences as a prisoner of war captured on Bataan. He graphically describes the Death March and POW life in Camp O’Donnell, Cabanatuan, hell ship to Japan (Nissyo Maru) and forced labor there until…

Novel set in the Philippines during World War II and the Japanese occupation, with the main character being a Swedish (based on the author?) lumber mill superintendent in Negros who has close relations with Filipinos.

The main character falls in…

Historical novel based on fact, reconstructing the life of the author’s mother, Mary Boyd Stagg, an American missionary in Manila.

Mrs. Stagg was one of the leaders of the Methodist church in the Philippines; she and her husband, Samuel W. Stagg…

Brougher was a US Army Brigadier General who commanded the Philippine Army’s 11th Division in the defense of Luzon and Bataan in 1941-1942. He was also an able writer.

This book assembles some of his anecdotes and short stories regarding his…

Novel about an American officer sent to the Japanese-occupied Philippines by submarine to contact Filipino guerrillas and conduct resistance against the Japanese. The guerrilla outfit the American officer is supposed to link up with is called…

A novel based on real events and persons in Luzon during the Japanese occupation. The key characters are American: a businessman with long experience in the Philippines; a teacher, a young woman, a military officer. (The businessman’s mistress is…

A novel of life under the Japanese occupation in Manila and Central Luzon, reflecting the author’s own experiences growing up in Manila at that time.

Local color is quite accurate, with Tagalog and Spanish words interspersed in the dialogue. The…

War novel about two American brothers in the Philippines: one an officer in the Philippine Scouts, awaiting his return to the US at the end of tour of duty, the other, younger, a fresh pilot in the US Army Air Corps who arrives on the last transport…

A novel depicting life in the Philippines before, during and right after World War II, following the experiences of members of the fictitious Graciela family, a land-owning family in the Central Philippines.

She recreates day-to-day living and…

A fictionalized account of one Filipino family’s experiences during the Japanese occupation, echoing Philippine traditions and history.

The author, a Filipino-American, heard her father’s stories about the war and was inspired to write about the…