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Author account of her time in the Philippines during WW2. Spencer was an American whose husband worked for a mining company.World War II memoir: Author and her engineer husband were living on Masbate, a small island in the Philippines when Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, and America joined the war effort. When Japan later was occupying the Philippines, they went into hiding and did so for 2 years.True story of family forced into hiding on the small island of Masbate in the Philippines for 27 months during WWII, just after Pearl Harbor was attacked by the Japanese, America joined the war effort, and Japan occupied the Philippines.Louise Reid Spencer's engineer husband was active in the guerrilla army, and they lived avoiding capture, living off the land like gypsies, giving birth in the jungle, dealing with the murder of their friends, enduring untold hardships, this family and group of people finally made it out via a U.S. Navy submarine.A fascinating personal account that will have you hooked until the last page...