Teodoro A. Agoncillo, the National Scientist whose nationalist historiography reshaped how Filipinos understand their own past, completes his account of the Japanese occupation in this second volume — turning from the military narrative of Vol. I to the social and economic conditions of the occupation years, the underground resistance movements, and the postwar political controversies that followed liberation. First published in 1965 and still in print, The Fateful Years remains the foundational scholarly account of World War II in the Philippines told from a Filipino vantage point.