This book is a collection of interview excerpts (and occasional quotes from published personal accounts) relating to personal experiences during World War II in the Philippines.
Almost all of the interviewees (“narrators” is the term used in the…
A personal account from a different perspective: the author (assisted by his son) writes about his experiences as a reserve officer called to active duty and sent to the Philippines just prior to the outbreak of war. He was assigned to Bohol and…
A novel based on real events and persons in Luzon during the Japanese occupation. The key characters are American: a businessman with long experience in the Philippines; a teacher, a young woman, a military officer. (The businessman’s mistress is…
Prisoner of war diary of a Scandinavian-American college graduate who was drafted into the US Army, made a corpsman and sent to the Philippines just before the war broke out. His first days in Fort McKinley were, he considered paradise – hence the…