Donald P. Smith grew up in the Philippines, until he was seventeen years old. With his wife Verna, he lived in Manila for five years just after World War II. He wrote this factu...ver maisDonald P. Smith grew up in the Philippines, until he was seventeen years old. With his wife Verna, he lived in Manila for five years just after World War II. He wrote this factual account from the war as though it were an autobiography by Stephen L Smith, making extensive use of recorded conversations with his father, and with his younger brother Paul.ver menos