Fires on the Plain

Author(s): Shohei Ooka

Location(s): The Philippines

Genre(s): Biography

Era(s): 1940's

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In 1941, the Japanese army invaded and occupied the Philippines and subjected its people to rape, enslavement and murder with an estimated 1 million Filipinos killed during the conflict. In December of 1944, the USA took the islands back and went about clearing them of the remaining Japanese soldiers. Shohei Ooka’s novel is based on personal experience of these events and contains many episodes that mirror those in his memoir.

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