Theresa Kaminski

Angels of the Underground

The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II

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Produktbeschreibung

The riveting story of two American women who risked their lives to aid the Allied cause in the Japanese-occupied Philippines during World War II

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780199928248
• ISBN-10: 019992824X
• Artikelnr.: 47869614

Autorenporträt

Theresa Kaminski is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. She is the author of Citizen of Empire: Ethel Thomas Herold, An American in the Philippines and Prisoners in Paradise: American Women in the Wartime South Pacific.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: The Four Women
Chapter Two: Manila on the Edge
Chapter Three: Pearl Harbor
Chapter Four: The Japanese Occupation of Manila
Chapter Five: Bataan
Chapter Six: The Surrender of Bataan and After
Chapter Seven: Organizing Relief and Resistance in Manila
Chapter Eight: Cabanatuan
Chapter Nine: Guerrillas in the Midst of the Occupation
Chapter Ten: The Manila Underground
Chapter Eleven: Betrayals and an Arrest
Chapter Twelve: The Carabao Cart Incident and Another Arrest
Chapter Thirteen: The War Returns to the Philippines
Chapter Fourteen: Bloodletting and Liberation
Chapter Fifteen: Freedom
Notes