Editor's note -- Prologue -- Pearl Harbor stuns Dumaguete -- Buckling down to war -- Wives retreat to Malabo -- The fall of Cebu -- The Japanese land at Dumaguete -- Return to Malabo -- Roy Bell joins the resistance -- The Japanese challenge the guerrillas to open battle -- Control of guerrilla bands -- Forming a free government -- Roy Bell's journey to Mindanao -- Major Villamor lands on Negros -- In the hands of Gador -- Checking on the Cebu guerrillas -- Problems in Negros Oriental -- Villamor gathers island leaders -- The destruction of Malabo -- Manalanco and flight -- Staying with Fleischers -- Basay rendezvous -- Epilogue: traveling home -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A: Silliman participants in the resistance -- Appendix B: Capture of Rev. Alvin Scaff's family -- Notes -- References -- Index.