NOW in the bookstores are four memoirs written by, as one would expect, octogenarians who have much to tell about what they have been through before, during, and after the Pacific War. All of them had been with the academe but with divergent experiences in life that are compelling reading about. The reader looking for a holiday gift for a literate friend or relative may consider the following:

Two of these books deal largely with the Second World War with glimpses of their early years before Pearl Harbor: