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Tropic born, war torn : untold tales of WWII in the Philippines /

Statement of responsibility: compiled and edited by Susan Vance.
by Vance, Gloria Haube; Vance, Susan.
Type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Oregon : Inkwater Press, c2011Description: xviii, 123 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781592995509 (softbound).Subject(s): Vance, Gloria Haube -- Childhood and youth | Haube, William (William Maximilian), -1954. -- Diaries | Benguet Consolidated Inc | Antamok Goldfields Mining Company | World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines -- Benguet (Province) | Gold miners -- Philippines -- Benguet (Province) -- Biography | Girls -- Philippines -- Benguet (Province) -- Biography | Germans -- Philippines -- Benguet (Province) -- Biography | World War, 1939-1945 -- Philippines -- Personal narratives, German | Benguet (Philippines : Province) -- BiographyOnline resources: VIEW PRELIMINARY PAGES
Contents:
High alert -- Storm clouds of war -- The middle of the jungle -- Magnitude of the task ahead -- A chaplain to marry us -- Frantic situation -- We turned ourselves in -- A question of do or die -- Forbes called him Aladdin -- We have been watching you -- Dread of all the people -- In league with the guerrillas -- Just the five of us -- House-to-house searches -- American bombs -- Dismayed and Disheartened -- Further into the mountains -- Back into the poisonous hole -- A plane roared over -- The destruction of Antamok -- Japanese soldiers torched the darkness -- Death traps -- A miraculous escape -- All hell broke loose -- A sacred place -- Soul-testing trial -- A chaplain to marry us
Language/Translation Info: EnglishSummary: "Romance, gold-mining ventures, and idyllic lifestyles were torn asunder by the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in 1941. Gloria Haube, with her mother and brothers, first fled to the jungle, then returned to Manila, an "open city" where they were spared internment because they were not Americans. Near war's end they followed indigenous Igorots into remote mountains to seek refuge from American bombs, living on sweet potatoes until their harrowing escape from retreating Japanese troops. Gloria's German-born father managed a gold-mining camp of 15,000 under Japanese commanders, then under the bombardment of American planes that destroyed it all. Their perplexing parallel perspectives and vivid tales of triumph are woven together in this remarkable account of war in a Pacific paradise."
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Books, Monographs Books, Monographs Filipinas Heritage Library Roderick Hall Coll. RHC - Personal Narratives D 767.4 V364 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 17959

Includes index.

High alert -- Storm clouds of war -- The middle of the jungle -- Magnitude of the task ahead -- A chaplain to marry us -- Frantic situation -- We turned ourselves in -- A question of do or die -- Forbes called him Aladdin -- We have been watching you -- Dread of all the people -- In league with the guerrillas -- Just the five of us -- House-to-house searches -- American bombs -- Dismayed and Disheartened -- Further into the mountains -- Back into the poisonous hole -- A plane roared over -- The destruction of Antamok -- Japanese soldiers torched the darkness -- Death traps -- A miraculous escape -- All hell broke loose -- A sacred place -- Soul-testing trial -- A chaplain to marry us

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