A TRUE STORY How a family in the Philippines survived Japanese occupation in WWII Commemorating 70 years since the end of WWII (1945 - 2015) Jose Miguel C Fernandez was born in 1884 when the Philippines was still a Spanish colony, and educated during the American Commonwealth. He was a prolific writer of short stories and poems often enjoyed only by his immediate family. He wrote his memoirs giving account of Philippine society at the turn of the century and his memoirs of the Japanese occupation during WWII. Having stumbled onto my grandfather's notes about life during WWII and his escape...

Jose Miguel Fernandez Carino nacio en 1884 cuando Filipinas era una colonia espanola. Escribio sus expansivas memorias en espanol, dando cuenta de la vida en el distrito remoto de Lepanto-Bontoc en la Provincia Montanosa; los Igorrotes, la sociedad de Candon y el comienzo del siglo bajo los americanos. Este libro es su testigo de los eventos historicos y de los cambios que ocurrieron in la sociedad Filipina a causa de la revolucion Filipina, el alzamiento de Candon, y la guerra Filipina-Americana. Pocos pues han sido privilegiados en sobrevivir todos estos cambios y escribir sobre ello de...