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Manila Espionage
About this book
Manila Espionage is the incredible true account of Claire "High Pockets" Phillips, an American entertainer living in Manila in 1941 who becomes an angel of the underground after her US Army officer husband dies in a Japanese POW prison. Using her popular Tsubuki Club as the resistance's headquarters, High Pockets and her staff charm information from Japanese officers downing spiked drinks and relay the intelligence via guerilla fighters to General MacArthur's staff. During the day, Claire and her girls smuggle contraband in their bras ('high pockets') past bribed Japanese guards paid to look the other way, into imprisoned American POWs - money, food, and clothes - saving countless lives.
This new edition of Manila Espionage includes footnotes and photographs from World War 2.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Manila Espionage (Annotated)
- Chapter I | A Fool Rushes In
- Chapter II | The Tumult and the Shooting Starts. War!
- Chapter III | Father Gonzales Ties a Midnight Knot
- Chapter IV | Bombs, Birth and a Broken Heart
- Chapter V | A Mistress, Monkeys and a Malicious Miser
- Chapter VI | Death Passes Me By
- Chapter VII | Corporal Boone Suggests a Plan of Battle
- Chapter VIII | The Death March Decides My Destiny
- Chapter IX | Dorothy Fuentes is Born
- Chapter X | Club Tsubaki Opens Its Doors
- Chapter XI | Guerrillas Minus Guns
- Chapter XII | Under the Nipponese Heel
- Chapter XIII | An Informer Goes to Hell
- Chapter XIV | Yamada Was a “White” Man
- Chapter XV | My Apologies to Sally
- Chapter XVI | The Kenpei Take Me in Tow
- Chapter XVII | An Unwilling Guest at Fort Santiago
- Chapter XVIII | The Sons of Heaven Torture and Try Me
- Chapter XIX | Number 920 Awaits Her Doom
- Chapter XX | “Yes, I’m Real, Sister!”
- Chapter XXI | We Turn Our Faces East
- Further Reading: US Military in WW2: Fighter Pilots