Kent State University Press Holmes, V: Guerrilla Daughter

Guerrilla Daughter is a memoir of a family's extraordinary struggle to survive the Japanese occupation of Mindanao from the spring of 1942 until the end of war in September 1945. The men in the family fought as guerrilla soldiers in the island's resistance movement, while the women, facing disease, hunger, harsh living conditions, and possible capture and death, were left on their own to evade the Japanese. In Guerilla Daughter, Virginia Hansen Holmes shares this gripping and compelling account of survival.