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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
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 itinerant torch singer with many names and almost as many husbands. With...
Author
Language
English
Description
"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: Tess Abbott, an American Army nurse, has fled the hardships of the Great Depression at home for the glamour and adventure of Manila, one of the...
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Documentary of a rescue of a number of U.S. civilians from the Philippines during World War II. After the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1941, these Americans fled to the hills and jungle inland until the dramatic rescue in 1944 that coincided with the buildup of guerilla forces in the Philippines.
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