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CIA agent Mitch Rapp has just stopped Saddam Hussein from obtaining nuclear weapons, and he needs a break. But now a hostage rescue has gone awry in the Philippines, and a Middle East assassin is bent on destroying the geopolitical equilibrium.

The story of Arlene and her family as they flee their home for one in the jungles, where life is fun. That is, until the Japanese take over the city of Zamboanga and the army surrenders.

When a boy advises a man that he will get to town more quickly if he goes slowly, the man thinks him foolish and races down the road with his donkey and a load of coconuts.

For the 400 American soldiers who escaped the Bataan Death March and hundreds of others who refused to surrender, escaping the Bataan Peninsula to Luzon was a life-or-death journey; among the local families who risked their lives to provide food and shelter to fleeing American soldiers were Bill and Martin Fassoth.

A biography of the President of the Philippines describing her life and her evolution as a political leader.

Within months of arriving in the exotic Philippines from Upper Sandusky, Ohio, to live with her missionary parents on the island of Panay, fourteen-year-old Louise finds herself a prisoner of war in an internment camp when the Japanese invade her new country in 1941.

Traces the life of the Philippino leader, discussing the challenges she faced in her first few months in office following the defeat of Ferdinand Marcos in the 1986 election.