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Personal account of a young boy in Vigan, Ilocos Sur, caught up in the war. The author writes in the third person (he is Jun), and the names of local and Japanese individuals are changed, “to avoid opening old wounds.”

This is a story of the…

Personal account of a Philippine Scout with the 91st Coast Artillery Regiment (P.S.) on Fort Frank (Carabao Island), one of the fortified islands on the mouth of Manila Bay. He participated in a raid on the Japanese in Cavite.

The author narrates…

Book 1 of a three-volume set on Bohol history (Book 2 is on Bohol’s towns and one city; Book 3 is a general overview of Bohol history), focusing on World War II on the island of Bohol.

Covers the period thoroughly, from defense preparations to…

Novel of the war in the Philippines – particularly the guerrillas - set in the island of Negros. The writer was a noted Filipino writer in English, who was a guerrilla officer during the war.

Events here were based on actual events; a non-fiction…

War novel about two American brothers in the Philippines: one an officer in the Philippine Scouts, awaiting his return to the US at the end of tour of duty, the other, younger, a fresh pilot in the US Army Air Corps who arrives on the last transport…

The subject of this biography is the author’s father-in-law, a World War II Bataan and guerrilla veteran.

After the war, Quimosing became a college professor. He passed away in 1971, before the author of this book was able to meet him. On Bataan,…