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Captured
More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps following Japan's late December 1941 victories in Manila. Captured tells the story of daily life in five different camps--the crowded housing, mounting familial and international tensions, heavy labor, and increasingly severe malnourishment that made the internees' rescue a race with starvation. Frances B. Cogan explores the events behind this nearly four-year captivity, explaining how and why this little-known internment occurred. A thorough historical account, the book addresses several controversial issues about the internment, including Japane...
Before the Colors Fade
God, Cebu, and War is presented Before the Colors Fade to document relatives, to illustrate life and background in the Philippines and the United States, and to bring to life the experiences of a Filipino/American boy. Asian Forests and their people and American Forests and their people are examined. Additional insights are given of a Navy/Marine Corps Hospital Corpsman and the Vietnam War with surprising and unusual conclusions; poignant and personal events are given along with Larry Carlsons recollections of Ray and Imogene Carlson and the early Cebu Christian Mission.
The Visayans
Editor’s note ... There is certainly no dearth of literature on Philippine History. Quite a lot has been written on the different eras of Philippine History by some Filipinos and Americans writers like Otley Beyer, Zaide, Agoncillo, de Morga, Constantino, Casal, Jocano, Ileto – just to cite a few names who have written colorful contribution to Philippine History dating from pre-historic times, the pre-Spanish Era, the Spanish-era, the Commonwealth era under the United States, and the different republican regimes since the Independence Day of July 4, 1946. Not many historical contributions, fiction or non-fiction, may have been written, however that delineates on the central Philippine Is...
Prisoners in Paradise
Draws on letters & diaries of American wives, missionaries, teachers, nurses, and spies to uncover their heroic tales while captives of the Japanese during World War II.
