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The fateful years : Japan's adventure in the Philippines, 1941-45 / Teodoro A. Agoncillo
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…
The fateful years : Japan's adventure in the Philippines, 1941-45, Volume II / Teodoro A. Agoncillo
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…
Men and memories in confinement : excerpts from a diary written in prison during the Japanese occupation, June 21, 1942 - February 15, 1945 / by Conrado Gar Agustin
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…
Philippine World War II stories for children : in bilingual text English and Pilipino / by Corban K. Alabado and Ceres S.C. Alabado ; drawings by Maria Luisa Peñaranda
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…
Beautiful dreamer / Ceres S.C. Alabado
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…
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…
Bataan, Death March, Capas : a tale of Japanese cruelty and American injustice / by Corban K. Alabado ; illustrations by Luke G. Alabado
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…
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…
Surviving Bataan and beyond : Colonel Irvin Alexander's odyssey as a Japanese prisoner of war / edited by Dominic J. Caraccilo
Personal account of a middle-level officer in the USAFFE. Written shortly after the war when his memory was fresh, this account presents a unique point of view: that of a colonel first in Fort Stoltenberg, where he witnessed the Japanese attack on…
Prisoner of the rising sun / William A. Berry with James Edwin Alexander
Personal account of a young American county attorney who, filled with patriotism, joined the US Navy even if he was exempt. He was quickly dispatched to Cavite Navy Yard, arriving in Manila in mid-November 1941. He was assigned to the 16th Naval…
Reprieve from hell / by Master Sergeant Samuel B. Moody and Maury Allen ; with a foreword by Major General E. P. King, Jr. (Ret.)
Personal account by an aircraft mechanic of the 91st Bombardment Squadron. He had enlisted in 1940, and was sent to the Philippines , arriving in Fort McKinley just two weeks before the war started. The squadron’s planes never arrived.
He…
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Abandoned on Bataan : one man's story of survival / Oliver 'Red' Allen, as told to Mildred Allen
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…
He was at Clark Field when it was bombed on the day the war…