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Written by a Filipino journalist right after the war, this book is a record of collaboration in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation and the postwar betrayal by Filipino “collaborator” politicians led by Manuel A. Roxas.

Abaya was…

A researched study by a prominent Filipino historian who lived through the period.

Agoncillo briefly outlines the saga of Jorge B. Vargas, as Chairman of the Philippine Executive Commission, and Jose P. Laurel, president of the Japanese-sponsored…

This two-volume history of World War II and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines is the classic basic, concise, and comprehensive history of the period from a Filipino point of view. Agoncillo, noted Filipino nationalist historian, lived…

Volume II of this history covers the economic and cultural aspects of the occupation, as well as the guerrilla movement, the Commonwealth government-in-exile and finally the return of the Americans and the liberation of the Philippines from Japanese…

This is the first serious full-length book to be written about the Battle of Manila since the 1940s.

Written by a Filipino free-lance historian, it draws much of its information from the proceedings and exhibits of the trial of Gen. Tomoyuki…

Special issue –larger and in hard cover – of the Philippine Historical Association’s "Historical Bulletin" for 1965.

Reprints Ancheta’s "The Escape," (a personal account of his escape from Panay to Ilocos, which was published as a separate…

An overview history of World War II in the Philippines, from December 8, 1941 to the end of the war, based mainly on the author’s interviews with surviving American (and one Filipino) veterans.

Not an oral history per se, since Astor writes the…

Details the Filipino side of the resistance against Japan throughout the archipelago. Includes an overview of the defense of the Philippines in 1941-42, but specifically focuses on the various guerrilla units by geographic area.

Basic overview,…

An account of World War II in the Philippines as told through the actions of Filipino heroes of that conflict.

The author, a Philippine Military Academy graduate and himself the recipient of a medal for heroism during the war, has compiled the…

A look at Corregidor and the other harbor forts (Caballo Island/Fort Hughes and El Fraile Island/Fort Drum, the Concrete Battleship)in Manila Bay as it was in 1977, with rare pre-war, wartime, early post-war and 1977 photographs for comparison.…