Philippine War Diary 19391945 Author:Stephen Michael Mellnik All the harrowing events in the Philippines---the Japanese invasion, the Bataan Death March, the horrors of prisoner-of-war camps, the escape to Australia, and the guerrilla recovery of the islands---are found in Phillippine War Diary 1939-1945, an eyewitness account by then Major (later Colonel) Stephen Mellnik, whose front-pag... more »e revelations about Japanese atrocities startled the world in 1944.
While all the great names of the Pacific War are here, the book is more a story of the many individuals who, when life itself was at stake, showed qualities of self-sacrifice, heroism and nobility to an extraordinary degree in the guerrilla movement which was instrumental in the liberation of the Phillippines.« less