Manila Espionage
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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

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Manila Espionage (Annotated)
  4. Chapter I | A Fool Rushes In
  5. Chapter II | The Tumult and the Shooting Starts. War!
  6. Chapter III | Father Gonzales Ties a Midnight Knot
  7. Chapter IV | Bombs, Birth and a Broken Heart
  8. Chapter V | A Mistress, Monkeys and a Malicious Miser
  9. Chapter VI | Death Passes Me By
  10. Chapter VII | Corporal Boone Suggests a Plan of Battle
  11. Chapter VIII | The Death March Decides My Destiny
  12. Chapter IX | Dorothy Fuentes is Born
  13. Chapter X | Club Tsubaki Opens Its Doors
  14. Chapter XI | Guerrillas Minus Guns
  15. Chapter XII | Under the Nipponese Heel
  16. Chapter XIII | An Informer Goes to Hell
  17. Chapter XIV | Yamada Was a “White” Man
  18. Chapter XV | My Apologies to Sally
  19. Chapter XVI | The Kenpei Take Me in Tow
  20. Chapter XVII | An Unwilling Guest at Fort Santiago
  21. Chapter XVIII | The Sons of Heaven Torture and Try Me
  22. Chapter XIX | Number 920 Awaits Her Doom
  23. Chapter XX | “Yes, I’m Real, Sister!”
  24. Chapter XXI | We Turn Our Faces East
  25. Further Reading: US Military in WW2: Fighter Pilots