philippines

Provides information about some of the many festivals held throughout the year in the Philippines and includes folktales, recipes, and games associated with each celebration.

Presents various aspects of life in the Philippines through interviews with twenty-six people representing different age groups, occupations, and regions. Also includes a section of brief facts about the country and a glossary.

Maria Rosa Henson tells the story of her experiences as a teenager who was forced into service as a "comfort woman"--a sexual slave for Japanese troops employed in the Philippines during World War II.

Explores unusual hauntings and ghostly sightings of a number of U.S. and foreign battlefields including battlefields of the French and Indian War, Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War, the Alamo, Little Bighorn, Normandy and Pearl Harbor.

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.

The chilling World War II memoir of Marine Sergeant Charles Jackson describes the fierce battle for Corregidor, his capture in 1942 by the Japanese, and his horrifying three-year ordeal in a POW camp as a prisoner of the Japanese.

"Describes the role infantryman played during World War II. Readers' choices reveal various historical details"--Provided by publisher.

Describes the disease, torture, and deprivation of both Allied and Filipino prisoners as they were forced to march several miles to prison camps in the Philippines in April 1942; with personal testimonies from some of those who survived.