Philippines | Asian History Books

Undefeated: America’s Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

March 25, 2015

Based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors, Undefeated tells the courageous story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. Bill Sloan, “a master of the combat narrative” […]
Rose Philippine Duchesne: A Dreamer and a Missionary (Saints and Me!)

March 25, 2015

Rose Philippine Duchesne: A Dreamer and a Missionary tells the story of Rose Philippine Duchesne, who was born in France and did mission work in both St. Charles, MO, and Kansas. The biographies in this new series help the young reader develop an understanding of our real-life heroes, the saints and introduce children ages 4-9 […]
My Faraway Home: An American Family’s WWII Tale of Adventure and Survival in the Jungles of the Philippines

March 25, 2015

A beautifully written, courageous memoir of a wartime childhood behind enemy lines. (SEE QUOTES. Use #2 if not too long.) Sale Price:$3.49 1585747238
Sugar and the Origins of Modern Philippine Society

March 25, 2015

The sugar industry has been a vital part of the economic and social life of modern Philippine society. John A. Larkin examines how both the Filipino people and colonizing forces participated in this industry and how two types of society emerged: one based on plantation agriculture, the other on tenant farming.Negros Occidental and Pampanga, the […]
The Great Raid

March 25, 2015

Before General Douglas MacArthur could fulfill his stirring promise of “I shall return” and re-take the Philippines from Japanese control, a remarkable rescue mission would have to take place. Captured American soldiers had been held at the notorious Cabanatuan prison camp for more than 33 months. Emaciated and ill from brutal mistreatment, a mere 511 […]
FROM SHANGHAI TO CORREGIDOR: Marines in the Defense of the Philippines

March 25, 2015

An illustrated history of the valiant defense of the Philippines at the beginning of WWII; from the withdrawal of Marines from China to the Bataan Death March. Sale Price:buy at discount B00DP85EXW
The ‘Old Guard’ in the Philippine War: A Combat Chronicle

March 25, 2015

A combat chronicle of the U.S. Third Infantry Regiment during the Philippine Insurrection, now more commonly known as the Philippine War (1899-1902). The narrative covers the conventional phase of the war through counterinsurgency operations and eventual return to the United States. Appendices list every known combat action in which the Third Infantry was involved from […]
Undefeated: America’s Heroic Fight for Bataan and Corregidor

March 25, 2015

Based on exclusive interviews with more than thirty survivors, Undefeated tells the courageous story of the outnumbered American soldiers and airmen who stood against invading Japanese forces in the Philippines at the beginning of World War II, and continued to resist through three harrowing years as POWs. Bill Sloan, “a master of the combat narrative” […]
Rose Philippine Duchesne: A Dreamer and a Missionary (Saints and Me!)

March 25, 2015

Rose Philippine Duchesne: A Dreamer and a Missionary tells the story of Rose Philippine Duchesne, who was born in France and did mission work in both St. Charles, MO, and Kansas. The biographies in this new series help the young reader develop an understanding of our real-life heroes, the saints and introduce children ages 4-9 […]
Visualizing American Empire: Orientalism and Imperialism in the Philippines

March 22, 2015

In 1899 an American could open a newspaper and find outrageous images, such as an American soldier being injected with leprosy by Filipino insurgents. These kinds of hyperbolic accounts, David Brody argues in this illuminating book, were just one element of the visual and material culture that played an integral role in debates about empire […]

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