Journalist Erwin Bonifacio's new book Courage Amidst Chaos offers a valuable glimpse into the rich instructive period of guerrilla resistance agains the Japanese occupation of the Philippine during World War II from the perspective of one of its too-often forgotten soldiers, Jose Falco. This labor of love and respect shines a light on the life of a self-described poor boy from a rural barrio of Tapaz in Panay's province of Capiz who, like hundreds of thousands of his countrymen, was called by history to sacrifice of himself for the freedom of others. Anchored upon Falco's unpublished memoir and archives available in the Philippines, this is the kind of historiography that supplies detailed tiles-of-narrative which, taken in totality, give the reader a comprehensive picture of the subject.

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