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Pertaining to WWII In the
A Lovely Little War
Angus Lorenzen – History Publishing Co.
The child, Angus Lorenzen with his mother and sister, Lucy, escapes from
Only A Matter of
Days
Caroline Bailey
Pratt – Merriam Press
Editing and
publishing her father’s diary of the inner laws and regulations of the war years of the civilian prisoners in
Santo Tomas prison camp in
Happy Life Blues
Cecily
For the Mattock’s
family, marauders in the hills of Mindanao, cobra nests under mattresses,
slicing wounds from cogon grass, tossed on high seas in open bancas and perils of raining bullets strafing them on land,
remain the daily encounters and legacies
of a path well trampled on by the vicissitudes of war. From Happy Life Blues Japanese Prison Camp to
eventually Santo Tomas camp in 1944, Cecily reminds us that the miracle of the
human body and the human mind is the durable, fragile, and expendable miracle
that we believe in, which under great adversity of war and imprisonment can
survive.
Manila Memories
Juergen Goldhagen
– Old Guard Press –
Four boy hood
friends remember their lives before, during and after the Japanese occupation
in
Encounters – A
Lifetime Spent Crossing Cultural Frontiers
Nancy Keeney
Forster- Presidio Press
A carefree child of expatriate
parents at age ten, a prisoner of the Japanese at seventeen, a valued source of
intelligence to the U.S. military at nineteen, and a fervent advocate of public
diplomacy throughout his long career as a Foreign Service officer, Cliff
Forster spent his life crossing and re-crossing frontiers, determined to use
dialogue, not conflict, to solve differences between people and nations. This skillfully written memoir of two
extraordinary lives, is written by his widow, Nancy, of a life well spent by serving
others on the international scene.
Abandoned on
Oliver (Red) Allen
with Mildred Allen– Crimson Horse
This book describes
several specific means of “hell” inflicted upon these prisoners of war who were
known as the
We Band of Angels
Elizabeth Norman –
Atria
The amazing story of
the
The Rescue
Steven Trent Smith –
John Wiley & Sons Publishing –
The submarine rescue
of 40 Americans trapped in the Philippines on the island of Negros – the
capture of Japan’s Z Plan(the decisive battle strategy for destroying the U.S.
Pacific Fleet), and the climactic battle
of the Philippine Sea , is the core of a fantastic adventure of this real life
drama. Smith’s brilliant and meticulous research, and an eye for detail, makes
this true WWII story an engaging and dynamic tale to sink your teeth into.
God’s Arms Around Us
William Moule – Blue Dolphi
December 8, 1941.
William R. Moule, American miner working in the
Philippines, his wife, who was expecting a baby, and their two young children found themselves trapped by
the invading Japanese Rather than go
into a concentration camp with other civilians – and believing the war to soon
be over – the Moules took to the mountains. This book
tells the story of what happens after that. This is a book to challenge your
mind and prompt you to think, “What would I have done?”
The
Connaughton, Pimlott
& Anderson – Presidio Press
Three educators and
military historians of the famed
Angels at Dawn
The Los Banos Raid – Lt. Gen. E.M. Flanagan,
This is a story of
intricate and resourceful staff planning; well trained, disciplined, battle
tested troops; extraordinary heroism by brave young prisoners; heroics by
fractious guerrilla bands; and appropriate and reasoned decision making by
tactically sound commanders on the ground. Paratroopers of the 11th Airborne, a
recon platoon and hard hitting guerrillas hit the Los Banos
civilian prison camp in unison. Rescuing all the 2,122 prisoners and moving
them behind enemy lines was a disciplined operation resulting in a satisfying
mission to beat all rescues – not without the bitter sweet operations ending in
a devastating reprisal.
That We May Live
Grace Nash – SHANO
Publications –
For Grace Nash, the
First Violinist of the Manila Symphony and a young American mother, life was
anything but routine during the war in a Japanese prison camp in the
The story of her
pregnancy on a small island with other pregnant women, old soldiers and
ex-prostitutes is a horror story that should never have happened. Her family who was forced apart were finally
reunited and sent to Los Banos prison in the country
till their sweet liberation by the 11th Airborne. Their subsequent return to
the states and freedoms’ aftershocks of civilization tells an all encompassing
story of WWII.
The Rape of
Iris Chang – Basic
Books – www.harpercollins.com
This is the story of
the Forgotten Holocaust of WWII. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity-one of
the worst in world history-continues to be denied by the Japanese government.
This book attempts to analyze the degree to which the Japanese government and
it’s militaristic culture fostered in the Japanese soldier a total disregard
for human life. The death toll at Nanking exceeded the immediate deaths from
the atomic blasts at
How Sweet the Mango,
No? – The Journey of a Hispanic Amerasian
Mathias Mendezona - www.booksurge.com
Set in the
next Presidential
election and it’s aftermath, will give you pause to re-acquaint yourself with Philippine
history.
The Rescue of Santo
Tomas –The Flying Column-100 Miles to Freedom
Robert B. Holland –
Turner Publishing Company
This story is a
significant part of WWII history told by one Marine who was part of the
miraculous “Flying Column” of the
Bob Holland was a
unique friend for many years to the prisoners he helped liberate.
Recipe from an
Oyster – A Memoir
Doreen Gandy Wiley –
Published by Media Weavers LLC
Intimate vignettes
of travel, living abroad and spending WWII in the
Documentaries:
The War
Ken Burns - Plus an
Accompanying Book by Geoffrey Ward and Ken Burns – Knopf
Two participants of
this documentary share their personal experiences of WWII in the
Victims of
Circumstance
Lou Gopal and Michelle Bunn Kawayan
Productions
The Philippine –
American experience during WWII in the
Secret War in the
Pacific
Peter Parsons &
Lucky Guillermo – Spyron
The story of
Commander Charles “Chick”Parsons. The man General
Douglas MacArthur called, “The Bravest Man He Had Ever Known.” A man of
multitude talent, bravery and dedication to the war efforts in the
Unsurrendered – 100 Voices
Parsons/Guillermo – Spyron
The Filipino
“guerrillas and bolo men” became an underground army of almost 300,000 during
WWII in the
