Dear Mother Putnam: Life and Death in Manila During the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1945

Download or read book Dear Mother Putnam: Life and Death in Manila During the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1945 written by Marcial P. Lichauco and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2015, marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Philippines and the end of the Second World War. With this new edition of "Dear Mother Putnam" new and old readers alike will be reminded of the suffering as well as the heroism of Filipinos and their allies during the dark days of the Japanese occupation. "Intelligent, informed, analytical and articulate, the author gives what is arguably the best single first-hard account of the war years in Manila... it has no peer." -- Dr. Benito Legarda Jr. "Lichauco's diary is probably the finest day-to-day account of wartime Manila..." -- Rupert Wilkinson