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Originally written during the Japanese occupation, Quirino (brother of President Elpidio Quirino) planned this one-volume history of World War II and the Japanese occupation for the return of the Philippine Commonwealth government. Instead, it was…

An overview by a distinguished historian of Southeast Asia. Presents the long term and immediate causes of the war, the Japanese campaign against the western colonizers, Japanese overall policy and execution in the respective countries of Southeast…

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.…

Well-researched thesis submitted to the US Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in 1982. This study documents and analyzes the guerrilla resistance movement in Mindanao highlighting the role of Americans in organizing the movement,…

First published in 1962, with several reprints in pocketbook format, this book remains the classic and most analytical study of the Death March which followed the surrender of Bataan in 1942.

Falk provides a detailed and graphic description of…

The book is what the title says: a day-by-day chronology of the actions in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor, with some information on the southern Philippines islands. It is based on published and generally available works, with photos and maps…

The author was the son of the former Superintendent of Manila City Schools and grew up in the Philippines. By the 1930s he was editor of the "Philippines Free Press" and well familiar with Philippine affairs. The war caught him on a trip to the US…

A history of the Bohol guerrilla resistance movement following the death of one of its first leaders, Capt. Francisco Salazar. Subtitle in the title page: “(a sequel to) Captain Francisco Salazar has Fallen (a biography).”

The author, a local…

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…

Scholarly overview and insightful interpretation of political developments in the Philippines during the last years of the American colonial regime, the Philippine Commonwealth, the Japanese occupation and the chaos of liberation.

The original…