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On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila unopposed by U.S. forces. Manila was a strategic port, a romantic American outpost and a jewel of a city. Tokyo saw its conquest of the Philippines as the key in its plan to control all of Asia, including Australia. Thousands of soldiers surrendered and were sent on the notorious eighty-mile Bataan Death March. But thousands of other Filipinos and Americans refused to surrender and hid in the...
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"A Room with a Darker View is an unflinching, feminist work chronicling the author's troubled relationship with her mother, an Oxford-trained lawyer, whose severe illness--marked by manic bouts of laughter, delusions, and florid hallucinations--went unrecognized for decades. This elegantly written memoir challenges conceptions about mental illness, difficulties caring for an aging parent with a chronic disease, and how we frame contributions by outliers...
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