Angels of the Underground: The American Women Who Resisted the Japanese in the Philippines in World War II

by Theresa Kaminski

When the Japanese began their brutal occupation of the Philippines in January 1942, 76,000 ill and starving Filipino and American troops tried to hold out on Bataan and Corregidor. That spring, after having been forced to surrender, most of those men were thrown into Japanese POW camps while dozens of others slipped away to organize guerrilla forces. During the three violent years of occupation that followed, Allied sympathizers in Manila smuggled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019992824X
• ISBN13: 9780199928248
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"