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Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
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James Hornfischer
Desperately fought on the morning of October 25, 1944, the Battle of Samar was an upset victory won by American warships fighting a battle they were never supposed to fight. Filled with riveting details, this is war at sea as it has seldom been presented before.
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Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
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Hampton Sides
Sides renders a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II: the rescue of American and British POWs behind enemy lines in the Philippines. "Ghost Soldiers" is far more than a thrilling battle saga as the author explores the mystery of human behavior under extreme duress. of photos.
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The Fighting Agents
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W E B Griffin
In 1943, Wendell Fertig, a U.S. Army officer, has assembled a band of guerrillas in Japan to bring chaos into the Japanese war effort. The American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) struggles to get supplies to Fertig and his men. In a parallel plot, the OSS is also engaged in a vital mission on another front: smuggling a pivotal atomic scientist ...
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In the Presence of My Enemies
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Gracia Burnham
In this riveting personal account of the capture of Burnham and her missionary husband Martin in the Philippine jungle, Burnham tells the real story behind the news about their harrowing ordeal that ended in his death and her rescue. (Christian Religion)
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We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
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Elizabeth M Norman
This is the amazing story of the World War II nurses stationed in the Phillippines--the "Angels of Bataan"--who performed amazing feats of courage and persistence up until their capture by the Japanese.
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The Emperor's General
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James H Webb
Did the Japanese really lose World War II? The bestselling author of "Fields of Fire" brilliantly portrays the epic battle of wills between MacArthur, America's greatest general, and a country with a genius for self-preservation. In this superbly imagined portrait of the days just following World War II, Web has crafted an extraordinary saga from ...
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Killing Rain
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Barry Eisler
Now employed by the Mossad to remove "problems" in Asia, Japanese-American assassin John Rain also has a new partner in former Marine sniper Dox. But when John botches an assignment, he finds himself on the run from both the Mossad and the CIA.
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In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines
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Stanley Karnow
A major history of the Philippines, emphasizing its role as America's most important colony. Karnow will be host of a three- to four-part PBS series based on the book to be aired nationwide shortly after publication. Two 8-page inserts.
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They were expendable
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William Lindsay White
A national bestseller when it was originally published in 1942 and the subject of a 1945 John Ford film featuring John Wayne, They Were Expendable offers an account of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron Three's heroic actions during the disastrous Philippine campaign early in World War II. The author uses an unusual and effective format to tell the story ...
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The Tesseract
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Alex Garland
Garland's second novel tells the intersecting stories of three groups of characters in the Philippines, and includes gangsters, suburban families, street kids, and the wealthy psychologist who seeks out their dreams for a project of his own.
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America is in the Heart: A Personal History
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Carlos Bulosan, Carey McWilliams (Introduction by)
First published in 1946, this autobiography of the well-known Filipino poet describes his boyhood in the Philippines, his voyage to America, and his years of hardship and despair as an itinerant laborer following the harvest trail in the rural West.
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To the Brink
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Cindy Gerard
Bestselling author Gerard spins the third sizzling novel in her romantic suspense series featuring sexy and daring bodyguards who will go to any lengths to protect the ones they love. Original.
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When the Elephants Dance
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Tess Uriza Holthe
During the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, a group of friends in hiding tell stories about everything from family problems to political activities. As they talk, their basement hiding place is increasingly endangered by the war going on outside their door.
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Dogeaters
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Jessica Tarahata Hagedorn
"As sharp and fast as a street boy's razor" (The New York Times Book Review), Dogeaters is an intense fictional portrayal of Manila in the heyday of Marcos, the Philippines' late dictator. In the center of this maelstrom is Rio, a feisty schoolgirl who will grow up to live in America and look back with longing on the land of her youth.
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Noli me tangere
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Jose Rizal
Noli Me Tangere is Latin for "touch me not, " an allusion to the Gospel of St. John where Jesus says to Mary Magdelene: "Touch me not, for I am not yet ascended to my Father." In this modern classic of Filipino literature, Jose P. Rizal exposes "matters...so delicate that they cannot be touched by anybody, " unfolding an epic history of the ...
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The War Journal of Major Damon Rocky Gause
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Damon Gause, Major, Professor Stephen E Ambrose (Foreword by)
A Veteran's Day treasure--the true, first-hand account of a captured World War II soldier's incredible escape from the Bataan Death March and courageous journey home--discovered after more than 50 years. 16 photos.
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Out on the Rim
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Ross Thomas
The award-winning author of the bestselling Briarpatch delivers a brilliant, highly acclaimed new thriller about an American con man embroiled in a multimillion-dollar plot to overthrow the Aquino government. "Mr. Thomas has never been more devious and duplicitous".--The New Yorker.
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No surrender : my thirty-year war
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Hiroo Onoda
Holding out in the Philippine jungle for 30 years, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda became a hero in Japan when he emerged from hiding in 1974 after fighting World War II's longest and loneliest battle. "No Surrender" is his first-person account. 47 photos. 13 line drawings.
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Blue Afternoon
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William Boyd
A young woman architect named Kay Fischer is approached by a mysterious old man who claims to be her father and who wishes her to accompany him on a search for his lost love. En route, he tells Kay the story of her strange parentage, and of a violent passion that consumed his life. Gradually, Kay becomes intrigued by, and then fascinated with, the ...
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Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold
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Sterling Seagrave, Peggy Seagrave
Drawing on a vast range of original documents and thousands of hours of interviews, "Gold Warriors" exposes one of the great state secrets of the 20th century--a cache of Japanese gold found in the Philippines during World War II.
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Who Walk Alone
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Perry Burgess
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The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944
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Thomas J Cutler
Based on previously unavailable materials, an account of the largest naval battle in known history outlines the roles of such figures as MacArthur, Roosevelt, Halsey, and Nimitz while considering important facts and events. Photos. Illustrations.
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Dream Jungle
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Jessica Hagedorn
In the 1970s, a young man named Zamora returns home from Yale to the Philippines and discovers an ancient cave-dwelling tribe in the explosive Mindanao region--and is suspected of falsifying his findings on behalf of the repressive government, which wants the area under surveillance. Zamora's story expands to include his relationship with his cook ...
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My Faraway Home: An American Family's WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines
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Mary McKay Maynard
In this luminous, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines, Maynard recounts the two years her family spent hiding in the jungles of the Philippines after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
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Death March: The Survivors of Bataan
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Donald Knox
An account of the extraordinary strength and courage exhibited by americans under the extreme and seemingly unending stress of three and a half years of captivity under the Japanese on Bataan. Photographs and maps.
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