Philippines Historical Fiction

Sam Carlson is a projectionist in small-town Minnesota, where fantasies unspool in glorious black and white—for him and for his sweetheart, college-bound math whiz Sarah Haber. When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Sam is sent to the Philippines and captured as a POW. Brutalized but unbroken by the Bataan Death March and POW camps, Sam is one of eighteen hundred starved and weakened prisoners herded into the cargo hold of a barbaric hell ship called the Arisan Maru, his survival doubtful.

“A potent, vaporous fever dream; a meditation on truth, lie, illusion, and time that floats like an aromatic haze through Herzog’s vivid reconstruction of Onoda’s war.” —The New York Times Book Review The national bestseller by the great filmmaker Werner Herzog. The great filmmaker...

Discover the fascinating Philippines in this captivating audiobook on its history, from the origins of the archipelago’s first peoples until modern times. The Philippines is possibly the most intriguing nation of maritime Southeast Asia. The archipelago has almost 8,000 islands that form the apex of the Coral Triangle of the Asian Pacific, as well as abundant marine life that constitutes almost half of this magnificent area’s oceanic megadiversity.

The Karangalan family and their neighbors huddle for survival in the cellar of a house a few miles from Manila. Outside the safety of their little refuge the war rages on—fiery bombs torch the beautiful Filipino countryside, Japanese soldiers round up and interrogate innocent people, and from the hills guerillas wage a desperate campaign against the enemy. Inside the cellar, these men, women, and children put their hopes and dreams on hold as they wait out the war, only emerging to look for food, water, and medicine.

Chiara is working on a film about an incident in Balangiga, Samar, in 1901, when Filipino revolutionaries attacked an American garrison, and in retaliation, American soldiers created "a howling wilderness" of the surrounding countryside. Magsalin reads Chiara's film script and writes her own version. Insurrecto contains within its dramatic action two rival scripts from the filmmaker and the translator - one about a white photographer, the other about a Filipino schoolteacher.

A History of the Philippines is a short, dense and temporally expansive book. It starts with the Evolution of the Land 100 million years ago. The writing is predominantly dry, dispassionate and academic. It's full of details, and often presumes an existing familiarity with Philippine history and culture, introducing terms with no definition provided.

December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture - or worse. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila.

Two sisters, separated by oceans and global conflict, are bonded through music and love in this gripping novel based on true events from World War II. “Hauntingly beautiful . . . shines a light on wartime in the Philippines and Italy, places rarely depicted in historical fiction . . . a...

Famine. Slavery. War. Survival. When hunger strikes her village, Tala, a war orphan, thought marriage was her ticket out of slavery. But her strategic move only leads to desperation. She’s forced to run from her fiancé to escape the same fate as his three previous wives, who died at his hands. The Priestess Trials may provide the cover she needs to prevent her disastrous marriage, but it’s even harder than she thought it would be. Her competitors are years ahead of her in skill and social class. Her dark skin and short hair mark her as a slave, and that makes her the target of their ...

The Secret He Kept A Novel of War, Love, and the Legacy of Silence When Addie Sinclair discovers a hidden diary in her late father’s desk, she expects old receipts or fading memories—not a love story buried for over fifty years. As she reads, a portrait of Daniel Sinclair emerges that she never knew: not the quiet, dependable Midwestern father who fixed cars and paid the bills—but a young WWII Navy pilot shot down over the Philippines, rescued by the Aeta people, and transformed by a love so profound it redefined his very identity. Through dual timelines that shift between wartime ...

How do you go after your dreams when your dreams are forbidden? Fifteen-year-old Kenda knows what she wants in life, but unfortunately, independence is the one thing she can’t have. When she is tricked into an arranged marriage, she makes a daring escape to the city, but that's where things get way more complicated than she could imagine. As shocking revelations about who she is come to light, her mission changes. Now she must harness her newfound abilities to uncover an ancient curse that has held her village hostage and oppressed its women. If she succeeds, the lives of countless women ...

North Of the Line is the third in a series of Neville and Clyde adventures. Follow these two Englishmen volunteers as they stumble their way through W.W. II in the South Pacific. Always in the thick of a battle and always getting in trouble with the authorities. They usually make the right decisions for the wrong reasons in their never ending quest to find a really good beer, no matter where it is - even if it's behind enemy lines. Getting shot down behind enemy lines, advising General MacArthur on where to invade an island or taking ownership of a Japanese destroyer - it's all in a days ...

Die bekannte deutsche Schriftstellerin Brigitte Riebe skizziert in diesem historischen Kriminalroman die bewegende und tragische Lebensgeschichte von Philippine Welser. Als bürgerliche Tochter eines Kaufmanns aus Augsburg vermählt sich die junge Frau im 16. Jahrhundert heimlich mit dem Sohn des Kaisers Erzherzog Ferdinand II. von Habsburg. Das Paar behauptet lange seine Liebe ge­gen alle gesellschaftlichen Widerstände zu jener Zeit, doch dann stirbt Philippine unter damals rätselhaften Umständen.