Wooten, Terry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wordsmith Press 2004

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Maynard, Mary McKay.

Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: ISIS 2002

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Holthe, Tess Uriza.

Summary: In the final weeks of the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during World War II, three different Filipino narrators recount the experiences of a people desperately struggling in the midst of the horrors of war.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2002

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Mrazek, Robert J.

Summary: "When Florence Finch died at the age of 101, few of her Ithaca, NY neighbors knew that this unassuming Filipina native was a Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient, whose courage and sacrifice were unsurpassed in the Pacific War against Japan. Long accustomed to keeping her secrets close in service of the Allies, she waited fifty years to reveal the story of those dramatic and harrowing days...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2020

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Steinberg, Rafael

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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1980

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Eisner, Peter

Summary: The true story of three intrepid people who successfully eluded the Japanese in Manila for more than two years, sabotaging enemy efforts and preparing the way for MacArthur's return. One was a debonair polo-playing expatriate businessman who was also a U.S. Navy intelligence officer. Another was a defiant enlisted American soldier. And the third was a wily American woman, an intinerant torch...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017

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Polacco, Patricia

Summary: A fifteen-year-old soldier in World War II meets a sweet young girl in the Philippines who helps him remember what he is fighting for as he helps her and others of her village avoid starvation, and many years later she returns his kindness.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2015

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Summary: A collection of documentaries made during World War II using actual newsreel footage, chronicling important events of the war.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2001

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Summary: Follows the life of Mahatma Gandhi from his days as a lawyer in South Africa to his role as India's spiritual leader by using his philosophy of non-violent but direct-action protest that helped end British rule. Centers on the extraordinary man who fought for a nonviolent, peaceful existence and set an entire nation free.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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