Manila Memories
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Manufacturer: Old Guard Press
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9781848610101
ISBN: 1848610106
Label: Old Guard Press
Manufacturer: Old Guard Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 140
Publication Date: 2008-08-01
Publisher: Old Guard Press
Studio: Old Guard Press
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"Manila Memories" contains four narratives of life in Manila under Japanese occupation in World War 2. The interlaced narratives come from four classmates who attended the American School in Manila and survived the war. Some of their family members and friends were not so lucky.
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Summary: Manila Memories
Comment: Manila Memories is a story about 4 young boys who lived through the Japanese occupation of Manila during World War II. These are gripping accounts, similar and yet very different, as each boy's experiences were unique and are told with distinctive voices. There is the ordinariness of everyday life and then, often, the sudden and shocking cruelty of war. Once started, the book demanded to be read through. I enjoyed it very much.
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Summary: Endurance and Triumph
Comment: Sixty years or more after their boyhood experiences, four men have told their tales of boyhood during wartime. Most Westerners in countries occupied by the Japanese in World War II spent the three years in prison camps. However, the four families in this story were not considered enemies by their occupiers; two were German, one was Swiss and the fourth was considered Filipino because of a long Spanish history in the islands. They lived in Manila and watched the occupation take place. Their fathers' jobs ended and survival became the mode of life.
Youth can protect us from real fear -- especially if parents are present to deal with the realities. The four boys' lives went on, for the most part, as boys' lives do -- play, schooling in one form or another. The presence of the Japanese and their unpredictability was part of their experience, and as time went on, privation, too.
The battle for liberation in February 1945 was the most horrendous time for all of them. Bombing, shelling and massacre presented them with lifetime memories that leave scars. That they have all gone on to live productive lives demonstrates the resilience of youth.
Undescribed directly is the heroism and ingenuity of the four sets of parents who survived three years demanding of innovation and courage.
Everyone should read this book.
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Summary: A boys' version of Anne Frank
Comment: The four authors who were boys in Manila during the months of the brutal Japanese occupation share their recollections of those terrible times in a simple, poignant narrative. Through the eyes of children, the horror is given a surreal quality, as memories of toys and games are juxtaposed with friends gunned down by sniper fire, Japanese firing squads, neighbors tortured to death, and relatives dragged off to execution. No historian, reporter, or adult stands between the boys and the reader as they tell their story--a story largely untold in the West.
As one who has taught American history, I was familiar with Japanese atrocities during World War II; still, much of what I read here was revelation. This short book would make a good reading assignment for young people studying the period, especially for junior high or high school age students like the boys themselves, and would be a valuable addition to any school library and to any history teacher's bookshelf. Just as Anne Frank wrote of her life under Nazi occupation, these boys tell of their lives under the Japanese.
It's hard to believe anyone survived the devastation of Manila, and even harder to believe that those who did could have grown up to be normal, functioning adults after such trauma. This is the sort of story that makes me swear I'll never complain about anything again. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: heart wrenching immediacy
Comment: Gripping story of a part of WWII in the Pacific--Manila Memoriesrelates through the eyes and experiences of four adolescents their survival, as best they and some of their families are able, the japanese occupation of Manila during the short-lived, euphemistically-named"Greater East-Asia Co-prosperity Sphere"---with control and prosperity flowing to the Japanese Empire. The arbritrariness and inhumanity of this new colonial power defies the imagination, illustrating once again man's potential for inhumanity to his fellow man.A most gripping read in which day-to-day traumatic experiences of these observers, these four innocent young protagonists, are related with heart-wrenching immediacy.
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