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Books BOOK STORE: PHILIPPINE HISTORY: World War II

The World War II arrived in the Philippines after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 07, 1941. Several stamps depicted the heroism, the adventures, and the challenges of a commonwealth to a self-governing republic. The following books aims to augment your understanding behind the story of respective stamp vignettes.

Recommended Readings:see also: World War II

Ghost Soldiers: The Forgotten Epic Story of World War II's Most Dramatic Mission
Hampton Sides. Hardcover Compact Disc Narrated by James Naughton Abridged, 5 CDs, 6 hrs.. Published: May2001

Further readings:
STORIES
Corregidor: The American Alamo of World War II
Eric Morris. Paperback. Published: November2000
Corregidor: The Rock Force Assault
Edward M. Flanagan. Hardcover. Published: June1988 Mass Market Paperback. Published: June1989
Bataan: Our Last Ditch
John W. Whitman. Hardcover. Published: October1990
Bataan and Corregidor (World War II 50th Anniversary Series)
Wallace B. Black, Jean F. Blashfield
Library Binding. 1st edition. Published: August1991
A comprehensive account of the World War II events in Bataan and Corregidor.
December 8, 1941
William H. Bartsch, Foreword by Joseph H. Moore. Hardcover. Published: May2003
Battle for Batangas: A Philippine Province at War
Glenn Anthony May. Hardcover. Published: May1991
Hotel Tacloban
Douglas Valentine. Hardcover. Published: September 1984 Mass Market Paperback. Published: April 1986 Paperback. Published: August2000
Pocket Stones: A Child's Story of World War II in the Philippines
Barbara-Ann Gamboa Lewis. Hardcover
Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines
John Costello, Paul McCarthy(ed.). Hardcover. Published: October1994
U. S. Naval Cryptographic Activities in the Philippines Prior to World War II
Sheila Carlisle(ed.). Paperback. Published: April1994
CAMPAIGNS
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors : The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
James D. Hornfischer. Hardcover Large Print Published: February2004
Battle of Bataan: A History of the 90 Day Siege and Eventual Surrender of 75,000 Filipino and United States Troops to the Japanese in World War II
Donald J. Young. Hardcover. Published: December1992
The 50th Anniversary Commemorative Album of the Flying Column, 1945-1995
Rose Contey-Aiello. Hardcover. Published: February1995
The liberation of Santo Tomas Internment Camp, February 3, 1945
Beyond Courage: One Regiment Against Japan, 1941-1945
Dorothy Cave. Paperback. Revised. Published: June1995
Rescue of Santo Tomas: Manila, WWII: The Flying Column: 100 Miles to Freedom
Robert B. Holland. Hardcover. Published: November2003
Manila : Memories of World War II
Fernando J. Maänalac
Battle for Manila: The Most Devastating Untold Story of World War II
Richard Connaughton, Duncan Anderson, John Pimlott. Hardcover. Published: August1995
Avenging Bataan: The Battle of Zigzag Pass
B. David Mann. Hardcover
The Last Big-Gun Naval Battle: The Battle of Surigao Strait
Howard Sauer. Hardcover 1st Edition. Published: May 1999
Crash Boat: Wartime Missions of the P-399, Guadalcanal to the Philippines
Earl A. McCandlish, George D. Jepson(Illustrator). Hardcover. Published: October2000
Red Sun Setting: The Battle of the Philippine Sea
William T. Y'Blood. Hardcover. Published: October1981 Paperback. Published: March2003
Little Wolf at Leyte: The Story of the Heroic Uss Samuel B. Roberts (De-413) in the Battle of Leyte Gulf During World War II
J. Henry, Jr Doscher. Hardcover
The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944
Thomas J. Cutler. Hardcover. 1st edition. Published: June1994 Paperback. Published: September2001
Decision and Dissent: With Halsey at Leyte Gulf
Carl Solberg. Hardcover. Published: October1995
Battle of Leyte Gulf
Thomas J. Cutler. Mass Market Paperback. Reprint. Published: November1995
Afternoon of the Rising Sun: The Battle of Leyte Gulf
Kenneth I. Friedman. Hardcover. Published: November2001
The Battle of Leyte Gulf (His World at War)
G. C. Skipper. School & Library Binding
Hour of Redemption: The Heroic WW II Saga of America's Most Daring POW Rescue
Forrest Bryant Johnson. Paperback. Published: September2002
The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II
Steven Trent Smith. Hardcover. Published: May2001 Paperback. Published: January2003
Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
Hampton Sides. Paperback. Published: May 2002
Philippine Islands : The United States Army Campaigns of World War 2
Jennifer Bailey. Paperback. Published: April1992
Great Raid on Cabanatuan: Rescuing the Doomed Ghosts of Bataan and Corregidor
William B. Breuer. Hardcover. Published: August1994
Raid on Cabanatuan
Forrest B. Johnson, Chiaki Takeuchi (ed.). Hardcover. Published: September 1988
Costly Mission
Michael Duncan, Foreword by John Seward. Paperback. Published: March1996
Code for Tomorrow
John J. Gobbell. Hardcover. Published: July 1999 PaperbackPublished: December 2000 Mass Market PaperbackPublished: February2002
THE FALL & LIBERATION
United States Army in World War 2, War in the Pacific, Fall of the Philippines
Louis Morton. Hardcover
The Fall of the Philippines (U.S. Army in World War II Series): The War in the Pacific
Louis Morton. Hardcover. Published: November 2003
Over Seas: U. S. Army Maritime Operations: 1898 through the Fall of the Philippines
Charles Dana Dana Gibson, E. Kay Gibson
Library Binding
1ST. Published: May2002
Return to the Philippines: 1944
John W. Lambert. Paperback. Published: January2001
Return to the Philippines
Time-Life Books(ed.). Hardcover. Published: July1979
Leyte: The Return to the Philippines
M. Hamlin Cannon. Paperback. Published: January2003
Eye-Deep in Hell: A Memoir of the Liberation of the Philippines, 1944-45
William A. Owens. Hardcover. Published: April1989
Low and Slow: Liberation of the Philippines as viewed from 800 feet above the ground
Don Moore. Paperback. Published: January1999
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The Liberation of the Philippines - Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944 - 1945, Vol. 13
Samuel Eliot Eliot Morison. Hardcover. Published: July2001 Published: September1971
History of United States Naval Operations in World War II: The Liberation of the Philippines - Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas, 1944 - 1945, Vol. 13
Samuel Eliot Morison. Paperback. Reprint. Published: February2002
In the Philippines and Okinawa: A Memoir, 1945-1948
William S. Triplet, Robert H. Ferrell(ed.). Hardcover. Published: June2001
When Wars Were Won
Hugh Aaron, Barbara Feller-Roth(ed.). Paperback
1st edition
Published: October1995
WARRIORS
Lapham's Raiders: Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945
Robert Lapham, Bernard Norling. Hardcover. Published: February1996 A comprehensive account guerillas exploits during World War II events.
We Remember Bataan and Corregidor: The Story of the American and Filipino Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor and Their Captivity
Mariano Villarin, Benjamin Steele (Illustrator). Hardcover. Published: April 1990
Secret Mission to the Philippines: The Story of Spyron and the American-Filipino Guerrillas of World War II
William Wise. Paperback. Published: October2001
The Intrepid Guerrillas of North Luzon
Bernard Norling. Hardcover. Published: May1999
Crisis in the Pacific : The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them--An Oral History
Gerald Astor. Hardcover. Published: March1996
Force 5 Recon: Deployment: Philippines
P. W. Storm. Mass Market Paperback. Published: July2004
The Bush Blaster Battalion: Army Anti-Aircraft in New Guinea & The Philippines
WithRobert E. Roy. Paperback. Published: January2003
Silent Warriors of World War II: The Alamo Scouts Behind the Japanese Lines
Lance Q. Zedric. Hardcover. Published: March1995
Crisis in the Pacific : The Battles for the Philippine Islands by the Men Who Fought Them
Gerald Astor. Mass Market Paperback
Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942
William H. Bartsch
Texas A & M University Military History Series, No 24. Hardcover. Published: March1992 Paperback. Foreword by Herbert Ellis
Published: February1992
They Were Expendable (Bluejacket Books)
William Lindsay White. Paperback. Published: April1998
The Philippine Army, 1935-1942
Ricardo Trota Jose
Fighting Agents
W. E. B. Griffin, Alex Baldwin. Hardcover. Published: June2000 Audio Read by Stephen Lang. Published: June2000 Audio Abridged, 4 Cassettes. Published: June2000 Mass Market PaperbackReissue. Published: May2001 Large Print Hardcover. Published: October2000
History of the Defenders of the Philippines, Guam and Wake Islands 1941-1945
Turner Publishing Company Staf, Edward Miller. Hardcover. Limited ed. Published: November1991
You're No Good to Me Dead: Behind Japanese Lines in the Philippines
Bob Stahl, Bobert Stahl, Robert Stahl. Hardcover. Published: October1995
And a Few Good Marines: Marines in the Liberation of the Philippines
John C. Chapin. Paperback. Published: March1998
From Shanghai to Corregidor: Marines in the Defense of the Philippines
J. Michael Miller. Paperback. Published: October2000
Hellcats over the Philippine Deep
John F. Smith. Paperback. Published: February1995
Emperor's General
James H. Webb, James Webb. Hardcover. Published: April1999 Large Print Published: December1999
The Men of the Gambier Bay: The Amazing True Story of the Battle of Leyte Gulf
Edwin Palmer Hoyt, Thomas H. Moorer(Introduction). Hardcover. Published: December 1979 Paperback. Published: October2002
Heroes of Bataan, Corregidor and Northern Luzon
Marcus Griffin, Eva J. Matson (ed.). Hardcover. 2nd and enl. ed.. Published: October 1994
Dignity of the Soul: The Story of Filipino Bravery in World War II
Bill B. Peavey. Hardcover. Published: December1995
Behind Japanese Lines: An American Guerilla in the Philippines
Ray C. Hunt, Bernard Norling. Hardcover. Published: November1986 Mass Market Paperback. Published: May1988 Paperback. Published: March2000
Fugitives: Evading and Escaping the Japanese
Bob Stahl. Hardcover. Published: October2001
AMERICANS
Family in Crisis: The United States, the Philippines, and the Second World War
John M. Fitzgerald. Hardcover. Published: December2002 Paperback. Published: December2002
December 8, 1941: MacArthur's Pearl Harbor
Texas A&M University Military History Series, 87.
William H. Bartsch. Hardcover
Douglas MacArthur : The Philippine Years
Carol Morris Petillo. Hardcover. Published: October1981
MacArthur and the Philippines
G. C. Skipper. Paperback. Published: March1982
MacArthur in the Pacific: From the Phillipines to the Fall of Japan
Michael Green. Paperback. Published: November1996
The Bitter Years: MacArthur and Sutherland
Paul P. Rogers. Hardcover. Published: November1990
MacArthur and Wainwright: Sacrifice of the Philippines
John J. Beck. Hardcover. Published: March1974
MacArthur and Defeat in the Philippines
Richard M. Connaughton, R. M. Connaughton, Richard Connaughton. Hardcover 1st ed. Published: August2001 Paperback. Published: March2003
Tell MacArthur to Wait
Ralph Emerson Hibbs. Hardcover. Published: January1999 Paperback Revised. Published: February1997
War in the Pacific: MacArthur's Return, Vol. 8
Edwin Palmer Hoyt. Mass Market Paperback. Published: June 1992
The ...the Secretary of War Shares Your Grief...": The Brief Existence of Captain Milton Jerome Sheldon
Warren C. Sheldon. Hardcover. Published: December2000 Paperback. Published: December2000
Army Boy in Philippines
C. L. Kilbourne. Paperback. Published: October2002
American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Ira Wolfert. Paperback. Published: October1980
Little Wolf at Leyte: The Story of the Heroic USS Samuel B. Roberts, DE413 in the Battle of Leyte Gulf during World War II
Henry Doscher. Hardcover. Published: July1996
Lieutenant Ramsey's War: From Horse Soldier to Guerrilla Commander
Edwin Price Ramsey, Stephen J. Rivele. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Published: November 1990 Paperback. Published: April 2004 Paperback-Reissue. Published: March1996
Raider: The True Story of the Legendary Soldier Who Performed More Pow Raids Than Any Other American in History
Charles W. Sasser. Paperback. Published: June2002
Legend of Colin Kelly: America's First Hero of WWII
Dennis E. McClendon, Wallace F. Richards. Paperback. Published: October 1994
Girocho: A GI's Story of Bataan and Beyond
John Henry Poncio, Marlin Young. Hardcover. Published: June2003
Last Lieutenant, Vol. 1
John J. Gobbell. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Published: July 1995 Paperback. Published: June1997
SURVIVORS
FDR's Prisoner Spy: The Bilibid Diary of Commander Thomas Hayes, U. S. N
A. B. Feuer(ed.), Thomas Hayes, Foreword by Jan K. Herman. Paperback. Published: December1987
A Few Memories as a Prisoner of War
F. Langwith Berry. Paperback. Published: September2002
Butchers, the Baker: The World War II Memoir of a United States Army Air Corps Soldier Captured by the Japanese in the Philippines
Victor L. Mapes, Scott A. Mills. Hardcover. Published: January2000
Bataan: A Survivor's Story
Eugene P. Boyt, David L. Burch. Hardcover. Published: March2004
Philippine Diary: A Journal of Life as a Japanese Prisoner of War
Robert A. Barker, Harry Gordon(ed.), Paul Barker(ed.), Eugene Jacobs(Illustrator). Hardcover. Published: January1990
Forgotten Heroes: Japan's Imprisonment of American Civilians in the Phillipines, 1942-1945, An Oral History
Michael P. Onorato. Hardcover. Published: December1989
We Were Next to Nothing: An American POW's Account of Japanese Prison Camps and Deliverance in World War II
Carl S. Nordin. Hardcover. Published: February1997
Brothers from Bataan: Pows, 1942-1945
Adrian R. Martin. Paperback. Published: January1992
Abandoned on Bataan: One Man's Story of Survival
Oliver Craig Craig Allen, Mildred Faye Allen. Hardcover. Published: October2002 Paperback. Published: October2002
Manila Diary 1941-1945: Thirty-Seven Months in Santo Tomas Prison Camp
Jeanette West Rowan, William Rowan (ed.). Hardcover. REVISED. Published: December 2000
The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas: The Firsthand Account of an American Couple Interned by the Japanese in Manila, 1942-1945
Emily Van Sickle. Hardcover. Published: October 1992
Abandoned at Leyte: The World War II Memories of Dr. Doy Duncan, Wildcat Pilot
Doy H. Duncan. Hardcover. Published: June2003
Surviving Bataan and Beyond: Colonel Irvin Alexander's Odyssey As a Japanese Prisoner of War
Irvin Alexander. Hardcover
Death March: The Survivors of Bataan
Donald Knox. Hardcover. Published: December1981 Paperback. Designed by Stanley L. Falk Published: April1983
Death March: The Survivors of Bataan
Donald Knox. Paperback. Published: January2003
I Came Back from Bataan
James Donovan Gautier, Bob Whitmore. Paperback. Published: December 1997
Bataan Death March: A Survivor's Account
William E. Dyess, Charles Leavelle(ed.). Paperback. Published: April2002
My Hitch in Hell: The Bataan Death March
Lester I. Tenney. Hardcover. Published: June1995 Paperback. Published: September2000
Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March
Manny Lawton. Paperback. Published: March2004
Captured: The Japanese Internment of American Civilians in the Philippines, 1941-1945
Frances B. Cogan. Hardcover. Published: December1999
Captured Honor: POW Survival in the Philippines and Japan
Bob Wodnik. Paperback. Published: June2003
Silence of a Soldier: The Memoirs of a Bataan Death March Survivor
William J. Duggan. Paperback. Published: April2003
Hike into the Sun: Memoir of an American Soldier Captured on Bataan in 1942 and Imprisoned by the Japanese until 1945
Bernard T. Fitzpatrick, WithJohn A. Sweetser III. Hardcover. Published: October1993
So Far from Home: Manila's Santo Tomas Internment Camp 1942-1945
Bruce E. Johansen. Paperback. Published: March 1997
Prisoner of the Rising Sun
William A. Berry, James Edwin Alexander. Hardcover. Published: April 1993
Mitsui Madhouse: Memoir of a U. S. Army Air Corps POW in World War II
Herbert Zincke, Scott A. Mills. Paperback. Published: October2002
Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific
Theresa Kaminski. Hardcover. Published: February2000
What a Way to Spend a War: Navy Nurse Pows in the Philippines (G K Hall Large Print Book Series (Paper)
Dorothy Still Danner. Paperback
Boy Soldier: Coming of Age During World War II
Russell E. McLogan. Hardcover. First Edition. Published: December1998
Flashbacks: Prisoner of War in the Philippines
T. Walter Middleton, Foreword by Ralph Roberts. Hardcover. Published: October2000 Paperback. Published: November2002
Captured on Corregidor: Diary of an American P.O.W. in World War II
John M. Wright. Hardcover. Published: August1988
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery under the Japanese Military
Maria Rosa Henson, Yuki Tanaka(Introduction). Hardcover. Published: March1999 Paperback. Published: July1999
The Road Back: A Pacific POW's Liberation Story
Dorothy Davis Thompson, Foreword by Charles W. Johnson. Hardcover. Published: May1996
Memoirs of a Barbed Wire Surgeon
Elmer Shabart. Paperback. Published: May1997
We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese
Elizabeth M. Norman. Hardcover. Published: April1999
Parade of the Dead: A U.S. Army Physician's Memoir of Imprisonment by the Japanese, 1942-1945
John R. Bumgarner, Dorid B. Hayes (Illustrator), Doris B. Hayes (Illustrator). Hardcover. Published: April 1997
Caged Dragons: An American P.O.W. in WW II Japan
Robert E. Haney. Hardcover. Published: January1992
Code Name: Kaibigan
Dorothy Fleming, R. H. Pruett(ed.). Paperback. Published: June1998 <--Price: $15.95 BN: $7.97-->
One Man's War: Diving as a Guest of the Emperor, 1942
Robert C. Sheats. Paperback. Published: November2000
My Time in Hell: Memoir of an American Soldier Imprisoned by the Japanese in World War II
Andrew D. Carson. Paperback. Published: October1997
All This Hell: U. S. Nurses Imprisoned by the Japanese
Evelyn M. Monahan, Rosemary Neidel-Greenlee. Hardcover. Published: March2000
Surviving A Japanese P.O.W. Camp: Father and Son Endure Internment in Manila during World War II
Peter R. Wygle, Eugene D. Wheeler(ed.). Paperback. Published: June1995
We Refused to Die: My Time as a Prisoner of War in Bataan and Japan, 1942-1945
Gene S. Jacobsen. Hardcover. Published: October2004
Taken Captive: A Japanese POW's Story
Ooka Shohei, Wayne P. Lammers(ed.). Hardcover. Published: April1996
No Surrender: My Thirty-Year War
Hiroo Onoda, Charles S. Terry(Translator). Paperback. Published: October1999


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