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A detailed study of political collaboration in the Philippines, mainly in Manila, of key pre-war individuals then in power.

De Viana narrates the basic events and characters of the Philippine Executive Commission and the Japanese-sponsored…

Documented study of the negotiations, legal issues, agencies and execution of exchange ships which repatriated American and Japanese diplomats to their respective countries.

Includes a detailed discussion of the Gripsholm, on which some Americans…

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…

Account of how a Japanese flag, captured in Bataan in 1945 by an American soldier, is passed on to a nurse treating World War II veterans.

The nurse (the book’s author), researches about the flag’s owner, gets in touch with his family, and goes…

This was the first book on the US Ranger Raid on Cabanatuan POW Camp, originally published in 1978. The raid, conducted almost flawlessly on January 30, 1945, resulted in the rescue of all the American and British POWs. Filipino guerrillas and the US…

First comprehensive and documented history of this heretofore unknown and thus unsung elite unit of the US Army in World War II. This military organization was organized by Gen. Walter Krueger in 1943 to assist his 6th Army in obtaining intelligence…

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…

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…

This is the classic work on Corregidor during World War II, the result of years of research and interviewing veterans.

The book covers Corregidor before the war; the siege of Corregidor in 1941-1942, and the subsequent liberation of the island…

Popularly written military history by an American military historian. Focuses on the American side of the liberation campaign, and concentrates on MacArthur’s winning President Roosevelt's commitment to return to the Philippines, the land and naval…