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Military campaigns Philippines Philippines History Japanese occupation, 1942-1945 United States. Army. Ranger Battalion, 6th History World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Philippines World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Philippines Cabanatuan World War, 1939-1945 Concentration camps Philippines Cabanatuan World War, 1939-1945 Philippines Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Prisoners and prisons, Japanese World War, 1939-1945 Regimental histories United StatesBiskup, Agnieszka
Summary: "Soon after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, they also attacked U.S. military installations in the Philippines. For the army and navy nurses stationed there, what had been a peaceful outpost quickly turned into a raging war zone. When the U.S. and Philippine forces retreated to the Bataan Peninsula and the fortress island of Corregidor, the nurses followed them to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, an imprint of Capstone 2023
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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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FINCH, FLORENCE MRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: B FINCH MRAGlusman, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 GLUHooper, Elise
Summary: Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II's American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately--victory. The Philippines, 1941: when the Japanese Imperial Army invades, American Army nurse Tess Abbott and her band of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOSides, Hampton.
Summary: A narration of the 1945 march to rescue 513 POWs, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, from a prison in the Philippines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2001
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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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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5481 MAYHolthe, 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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOLBrainard, Cecilia Manguerra.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1994
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BRALawhon, Ariel
Summary: The Philippines, 1941. When U.S. Navy nurse Eleanor Lindstrom, U.S. Army nurse Penny Franklin, and Filipina nurse Lita Capel forge a friendship at the Army Navy Club in Manila, they believe they are living a paradise assignment. As the beauty and promise of their surroundings give way to the heavy mantle of war, they are caught in the crosshairs of a fight between the U.S. military and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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Summary: "Inspired by a true story, three best friends from Mobile, Alabama are captured in the Philippines during WWII--they vow to return home together. They struggle to survive against impossible odds in an ordeal that becomes known as the Bataan Death March"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BrothertonPolacco, 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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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J Fiction PolaccoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE POLHerzog, Werner
Summary: "Werner Herzog, one of the most revered filmmakers of all time, in his first book in many years, tells the story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who continued to defend a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War Two In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts there asked, whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HERHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: " A thrilling account of the most daring American POW rescue mission of World War II.Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2023
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 HOPSides, Hampton.
Summary: Chronicles the raid by 121 U.S. troops to rescue 513 prisoners of war, including the last survivors of the Bataan Death March, from the Philippines in January 1945.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars SidesHopkinson, Deborah
Summary: A thrilling account of the most daring American P.O.W. rescue mission of World War II. Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: Documents the extraordinary story of three brothers in World War II, describing the rescue mission launched by the elder two when their youngest brother was declared missing in action in the Philippines.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FRESides, Hampton
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Pub. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.5425 SIDDuffy, James P.
Summary: "It had been two and a half difficult years since General Douglas MacArthur had reluctantly obeyed a presidential order to abandon his American and Filipino forces on the Bataan Peninsula and slip away to Australia to organize the Allied resistance. FromAustralia, he had famously vowed to return to liberate the Philippines. And the people had believed his vow, their faith in him almost...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 DUFRamsey, Edwin Price.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5359 RAMEisner, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 EISFloyd, John Lewis
Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival FloydSloan, Bill
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5425 SLOSteinman, Louise.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 940.5425 STEFalk, Stanley L. (Stanley Lawrence)
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1966