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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…

Diary kept by a Filipino who was arrested by the Japanese for writing and spreading anti-Japanese leaflets early in the occupation. Considered a “misguided element,” Agustin was brought to Fort Santiago, where he was interrogated and tortured; he…

This book assembles three stories of Filipino heroism in World War II: Buenaventura Bello, a school teacher in Vigan who refused to take down the American flag when the Japanese ordered him to (and a schoolboy who took the flag); Joey Guerrero, a…

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…

Personal account of a University of the Philippines law student called to active service in October 1941.

Proud and unused to army life, he was a recalcitrant sergeant who did not follow orders, but eventually learned to fit in with the advent of…

Personal account of a teenage American college student who joined the US Army Air Corps in 1941, was assigned to the 19th Bomb Group and shipped to the Philippines in September 1941.

He was at Clark Field when it was bombed on the day the war…

Personal account of an American employee of the Philippine Refining Company, who returned to Manila from home vacation and was caught in the war.

He volunteered for military service, and because of his engineering and other skills, was assigned…

Biography of an American missionary couple who arrived in Manila in 1907.

The author, daughter of the Wolfes, writes about her parents experiences in the Philippines from the time they arrived, preaching the gospel in Laguna, through the war and…

Meant as a tourist handbook (part of the Galleon series), this volume presents a brief history of Corregidor, particularly its role in the defense of the Philippines in 1941-1942.

Includes several photographs and maps. Suffers from numerous…