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Author Panlilio, Yay, 1913-1978.

Title The crucible : an autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American guerrilla / Yay Panlilio ; edited by Denise Cruz
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xxix, 320 pages)
Contents Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A Note on the Text -- The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay -- Timeline -- Glossary
Summary In this 1950 memoir, The Crucible: An Autobiography by Colonel Yay, Filipina American Guerrilla, Panlilio narrates her experience as a journalist, triple agent, leader in the Philippine resistance against the Japanese, and lover of the guerrilla general Marcos V. Augustin, from the war-torn streets of Japanese-occupied Manila, to battlegrounds in the countryside, and the rural farmlands of central California. Denise Cruz's introduction imparts key biographical, historical, and cultural contexts
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Panlilio, Yay, 1913-1978.
SUBJECT Panlilio, Yay, 1913-1978 fast
Panlilio, Yay, 1913-1978. fast/nic/nac
Subject World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- Philippines
Women guerrillas -- Philippines -- Biography
Women journalists -- Philippines -- Biography
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Filipino American
World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Female.
Filipino Americans -- Biography
Irish Americans -- Biography
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- Asian American.
Filipino Americans
Irish Americans
Military participation -- Female
War -- Underground movements
Women guerrillas
Women journalists
Philippines
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009008507
ISBN 9780813548203
0813548209
1280493402
9781280493409
9786613588630
6613588636