BOOKS
Occupation, 1942-1945 /

Publisher: Vibal Publishing House,


Title Details
  • Occupation, 1942-1945 /
Publishers
  • Manila : Vibal Publishing House,c2016
Descriptions
  • xix, 459 p.
Isbn
    9789719706861
Language
    English
Subjects
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines
  • Philippines -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Place
  • Philippines
Location MAIN
Item Call Number DS 686.4 L44 2016
Status Available
Barcode 17450
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - 9789719706861
Language Code
  • Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Legarda, Benito J.
Title Statement
  • Title - Occupation, 1942-1945 /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc - Benito J. Legarda, Jr.
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc - Manila :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc - Vibal Publishing House,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc - c2016
Physical Description
  • Extent - xix, 459 p.
Series Statement/title
  • Title - Filipiniana Clasica
Formatted Contents Note
  • Formatted contents note - Part one, Invasion and Conquest: Class reunion after sixty years -- What they didn't do at Pearl -- Caught on the ground -- From Batanes to Baliuag -- Open City -- Most spectacular New Year's Eve -- Saving the national currency at New Year's -- Disharmony in the Conservatory -- Back to the horse and buggy -- Tschaikowsky and Bataan -- From glory to garbage -- Silent symphony -- "Wet eyes but singing hearts" -- Survivor of Bataan -- Noblesse oblige in Bataan -- April 9th--Bataan Day exclusively -- A tale of two massacres -- Blurring Bataan -- Early news about the Death March -- Markers on the route of death -- An authentic hero -- "I have taken a dreadful step" -- The months of heat and agony -- From Corregidor to Coral Sea -- The slow surrender -- Darkness and light in defeat -- The turn of the tide -- The unwritten letter -- "One of history's largest death factories" -- Month of heat and sorrow: death of Homma -- Release from death camp -- Basque code talkers on Guadalcanal -- Sheltering released POWs -- Takeover of the media -- A bet on Moresby -- Programs at the convalescent home -- Holiday fare in wartime -- More on wartime holiday privations -- The stragglers come home
  • Formatted contents note - Part two, Sullen resignation and impatient expectation: Lingering effects and glimmers of hope -- Paying the right government -- Problems at the Convalescent Home -- Trouble at the Convalescent Home -- Death in July -- Gray October -- The anthem and the stamp -- The Laurel incident in wartime Spain -- Music and monsoons in mid-November -- The storm from inside camp -- Economics and collaboration -- A Christmas concert in wartime -- From convalescents to war widows -- Morale and resistance -- Escape by submarine -- Surrender, death, and conformity -- Adjusting culturally to the occupation -- Another escape by submarine -- The fallen admirals -- June 1944
  • Formatted contents note - Part three, Refuge and resistance: Fleeing from Nazis to Manila -- Four boys in wartime -- The Hungarian connection -- American honorees -- A heritage school in wartime -- From Bataan to Panay -- The heroic harpist -- A Czech in the wartime Philippines -- Serving on two fronts -- The guerillas in the Philippines -- Monument to the guerillas -- A wartime resistance leader passes away -- A Fil-American family's wartime travails
  • Formatted contents note - Part four, The approach of freedom: Small beginnings of liberation -- "The birds will have to walk" -- "The most thrilling day" -- Differing perceptions -- September, Martial Law month -- After the first raids -- A saint's day amid raids and terror -- "Send a cable to Nimitz" -- D-Day for the Philippines -- History's greatest sea fight -- Cheers for Romblon, jeers for Mabalacat -- New angles on Leyte Gulf -- Ringside at Leyte Gulf in October -- While the battle raged -- Misled in Mabalacat -- A monument to servility -- Comfort women vs. Kamikaze -- November 23: Date of infamy -- In Latin, MacArthurum -- The winds of November -- Big change in a time of raids -- "This belongs to the emperor" -- New raids and hell ships -- Christmas without wheels -- The flaming bomber -- Contrast and similarities, December 1941 and January 1945 -- Backyard burial in wartime -- "I pray for you many years"
  • Formatted contents note - Part five, Manila: Death, destruction, and freedom: The race to Manila -- "Broadway terror" at Malacanan -- Seven streets of Santo Tomas -- In the flying column -- Contrasts on Calle Espana -- Did the Japanese plan to massacre the internees? -- The most vicious crime in Philippine history -- Manila: forgotten holocaust--Combat aspects -- Massacre at the Psychopathic -- Massacre at St. Paul's -- Blood, fire, and ruin remembered -- Death on Calle Agno -- Surviving the Herran-Kansas masacre -- Ordeal in Paco, 1945 -- Festival of death -- Surviving the worst -- More views on Manila's liberation: Ateneo destroyed -- Searching for the consul's grave -- Destruction of Intramuros -- A street named Liberation -- Manila holocaust: massacre and rape -- Civilian victims in Manila, February 1945 -- A tribute to the martyrs of Manila -- Readings for the festival of death -- Not in February -- Responsibility for Manila's destruction -- Recalling wartime events correctly -- Yamashita's first interview: Manila was not an open city -- Yamashita's guilt, Korean atrocities, and other misconceptions about the Liberation of Manila -- Lecturing on Manila's destruction -- Ruin and desolation -- Notes from a book launch -- Sister cities in sorrow
  • Formatted contents note - Part six, Pursuing the war: Retaking the Rock -- Fleeing death in Batangas -- Raid and reprisal -- The southern landings -- Celebrating Filipino victories: Ipo Dam -- Celebrating Filipino victories: Bessang Pass -- From Lacrimosa to Eroica -- From Sampaloc to Quiapo via Mabitac -- Aggressors as victims -- Inseparable
  • Formatted contents note - Part seven, Retrospect and retribution: Unrepentant aggressors -- Looking before and after -- Reviewing the occupation era: Truth -- Sixty-five years later -- Roads not taken -- Premier Abe: Crimes without criminals? -- Ebdalin reminds Abe -- Chiding their own leaders -- Friendship month -- New look at a documentary -- Insufficient reconciliation -- Servile tour guides -- Enriching wartime research materials -- A remarkable sixty-sixth
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc - "Esteemed historian Benito Legarda Jr.'s writings on this period of our history [Japanese Occupation of the Philippines during World War II], consisting largely of columns from the Philippines Free Press and the Philippine Daily Inquirer, were previously published in book form as Occupation '42 and Occupation: The Later Years. This new edition gathers these acclaimed collections into a single volume, along with additional never-before compiled articles, to create a definitive omnibus."
Language Note
  • Language note - English
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines
Subject Geographic Name
  • Geographic name - Philippines
  • General subdivision - History
  • Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.