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05 July 2015 THE RODERICK HALL COLLECTION OF BOOKS ON MANILA AND THE PHILIPPINES DURING WORLD WAR II IN MEMORY OF ANGELINA RICO de McMICKING, CONSUELO McMICKING HALL, LT. ALFRED L. McMICKING AND HELEN McMICKING, EXECUTED IN MANILA, JANUARY 1945 The focus of this collection is personal experiences, both civilian and military, within the Philippines during the Japanese occupation. ABAÑO, O.P., Rev. Fr. Isidro : Executive Editor Title: FEBRUARY 3, 1945: UST IN RETROSPECT A booklet commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Liberation of the University of Santo Tomas. ABAYA, Hernando J : Author Title: BETRAYAL IN THE PHILIPPINES Published by: A.A. Wyn, Inc. New York 1946 Mr. Abaya lived through the Japanese occupation and participated in many of the underground struggles he describes. A former confidential secretary in the office of the late President Quezon, he worked as a reporter and editor for numerous magazines and newspapers in the Philippines. Here he carefully documents collaborationist charges against President Roxas and others who joined the Japanese puppet government. ABELLANA, Jovito : Author Title: MY MOMENTS OF WAR TO REMEMBER BY Published by: University of San Carlos Press, Cebu, 2011 ISBN #: 978-971-539-019-4 Personal memoir of the Governor of Cebu during WWII, written during and just after the war but not published until 2011; a candid story about the treatment of prisoners in Cebu by the Kempei Tai. Many were arrested as a result of collaborators who are named but escaped punishment in the post war amnesty. ABRAHAM, Abie : Author Title: GHOST OF BATAAN SPEAKS Published by: Beaver Pond Publishing, PA 16125, 1971 This is a first-hand account of the disastrous events that took place from December 7, 1941 until the author returned to the US in 1947. He describes his experience of the Death March and quotes many who perished in the camps under brutal Japanese control. Known as the “Ghost of Bataan,” Abraham remained and was later assigned the task of recovering remains of POWs that died in combat on Bataan and during the Bataan Death March. ABRAHAM, Abie : Author Title: OH, GOD, WHERE ARE YOU? Printed by: Vantage Press, 1997 ISBN #: 0533119871 Vivid memoir of the Philippines in World War II, by a survivor of the Battle of Bataan. ADAMS Jr., John A : Author Title: SOFTLY CALL THE MUSTER The Evolution of a Texas Aggie Tradition ISBN #: 0-89096-586-2 Texas A&M University has many unique traditions, but the annual muster ceremony is among the most hallowed. This single event is marked by Aggies in more than 400 locations worldwide. Aggies originally observed San Jacinto Day - the victory on April 21,1836 by the Texans over Santa Anna - with club activities. During the WWII defense of Corregidor in Manila Bay, the muster tradition gained broader significance. Surrounded, pounded by several quarter-ton shells a minute, and with little hope of relief that April of 1942, Gen. George F. Moore ’08 thought of his alma mater and sought out a roster of all Aggies on Corregidor. This book traces the evolution of Aggie Muster from its early roots to the modern-day observance. ADAMSON, Sofia : Author Title: GODS, ANGELS, PEARLS AND ROSES Library of Congress Catalogue Card # 72-91145 Published by: American International Publishing, El Monte, CA, 1982 The story of a Greek family and their travels from Greece to the U.S. in the late 19th century, across the U.S. to L.A. and onward to the Philippines; in the Philippines during the Japanese occupation and in the post war rebuilding. AFRAN STAMP CO: Author Title: 1945 PRICE LIST OF STAMPS OF THE PHILIPPINES ISSUED UNDER THE JAPANESE OCCUPATION catalogue Published by: Afran Stamp Co., Manila, Philippines, 1945 During the Japanese Occupation the Philippine Bureau of Posts had reopened almost all post offices existing before the war and maintained foreign mail service with Japan, Manchukuo, China, Singapore and other parts of Malaya. Java and other points of the Dutch East Indies except New Guinea; Borneo, and several other parts of the Japanese occupied territory. All the stamps issued were actually for postal use and had actually seen postal service either locally or for foreign mail, except the 1p on 4p (Scott 469, A65) issued April 30, 1943 which we consider as a speculative issue, the issuance of which caused the drastic shake-up in the stamp section of the Bureau of Posts. AGDAMAG Jr. PC (RET), Jose V. and Captain Vicente M. Agdamag PN : Authors Title: 150 Days of Hell (Japanese Invasion of the Philippines 8 Dec. 1941 - 6 May 1942) Printed by: FRVN Business House, 35 Upper Plaza, West Rembo, Makati City, Philippines Colonel Jose Villanueva Agdamag Jr. PC (Ret.) was born on 22 June 1921 in Baguio City, Philippines. After graduating, he was commissioned as 3rd Lieutenant into the U.S. Armed Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) while fighting a defensive war in Bataan. Following the Fall of Bataan, he survived the Death March from Mariveles, Bataan to San Fernando, Pampanga, onward to Capas Concentration Camp on 15 April 1942. On his release from the concentration camp on 4 July 1942, he joined and became active in the guerrilla movement with the Fil-American Irregular troops under Colonel Straughn operating in Manila and southern Luzon, up to the Liberation of the Philippines in 1945. AGONCILLO, Teodoro A : Author Title: THE FATEFUL YEARS: Japan’s Adventure in the Philippines 1941-1945 (2 volumes) Published by: R.P. García Publishing Co., Quezon City, Philippines, 1965 A vivid narrative, portraying the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, the passion and calvary of the USAFFE, and the tragic life of Camp O’Donnell. Mr. Agoncillo tried his best to be impartial and shows that not all the Japanese who came to the Philippines during the war were “beasts” and not all guerrillas were “angels.” AGONCILLO, Teodoro A : Author Title: THE BURDEN OF PROOF: The Vargas-Laurel Collaboration Case Published by: University of the Philippines Press, Manila, 1984 Vargas, Laurel, Osias, Aquino and other Filipinos were charged with collaboration after the war’s end in accordance with the American military’s views on the matter. Filipino popular opinion saw it differently and all the men were eventually amnestied. It includes the first publication of the “Sugamo Diary, as an appendix, written in the Japanese penitentiary where Vargas was confined after the war for ten months by MacArthur without charges. AGUSTIN, Conrado Gar : Author Title: MEN AND MEMORIES IN CONFINEMENT : Excerpts from the diary written in prison during the Japanese occupation, June 21, 1942 - February 5, 1945 Published by: MCS Enterprises, Inc., Manila, 1973 Unable to fight because of physical handicap, Agustin used his talent as a caricaturist to help produce mimeographed propaganda leaflets in Manila and suburbs to bolster the morale of the people during the early days of the Japanese Occupation. In this unique diary, kept at great risk, he depicts the tortures of political prisoners in different garrison and detention camps, notably in Ft. Santiago, from which he was among the few lucky survivors. ALABADO, Corban L : Author Title: BATAAN, DEATH MARCH, CAPAS : A Tale of Japanese Cruelty and American Injustice ISBN #: 1-887764-50-X The personal narrative of a Filipino university student who was drafted into the USAFFE when war broke out in 1941. He fought in Bataan, surrendered and survived the Death March and POW concentration camp at O’Donnell in Capas, Tarlac. After fighting alongside American soldiers, he found himself and his Filipino comrades completely ignored after the war in 1946. ALABADO, Corban K. and Ceres S.C : Authors Title: PHILIPPINE WORLD WAR II STORIES FOR CHILDREN ISBN #: 978-193426948-0 Stories of gallantry of both the civilian and military in the Philippines told for children so that they will know what happened to their forefathers in the dark days of World War II, and cherish the memories of their struggle for freedom. ALABADO, Ceres S.C : Author Title: BEAUTIFUL DREAMER ISBN #: 1-887764-51-8 A family biography, written with the historical background of the Commonwealth government under the United States, and World War II Japanese occupation of the Philippines. ALEXANDER, Colonel Irvin : Author Title: SURVIVING BATAAN and BEYOND Colonel Irvin Alexander’s Odyssey as a Japanese Prisoner of War Published by: Stackpole Books, 1999 ISBN #: 0-8117-1596-5 Colonel Alexander was stationed at Fort Stotsenburg, near Clark Field, when the Japanese invaded the Philippines. As a mid-level commander, he knew and understood the politics behind the surrender that fateful day in April 1942 but also struggled with the rest of the men as a POW. ALIANZA, Chuck : Author Title: SOON COMES SUNRISE ISBN #: 1-59453-443-8 This book vividly recounts the author’s childhood in the jungles of the Philippines during WWII. The night brought safety from the ongoing searchings of the enemy, but sunrise always brought dread. They were prime targets for the enemy not only because they were Americans, but his father was leader of a local guerrilla force. That position, however, proved to be vital in their escape by American submarine, the last sub to dare breech the Japanese blockade. A group of their American missionary friends were not so lucky. Twenty-six years later, with his own young family he returned to the same area where they worked as medical and linguistic missionaries. There they built a tribal hospital which is still functional today, translated portions of the Bible into the tribal language which until then had not been written and reconnected with some who had saved his life as a child. ALLEN, Oliver ‘Red’ : As told to Mildred Allen Title: ABANDONED ON BATAAN: One Man’s Story of Survival Published by: Crimson Horse Ent.
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