Vic Hurley

Gerald Victor Hurley (1898–1978) was a record-breaking athlete, adventurer, expert on the Philippine Islands, military officer, and prolific author. His published books include a non-fiction series relating to the Philippine Islands in the first third of the twentieth century, military histories, screenplays, articles and works of fiction.

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1936In print
Swish of the Kris
Vic Hurley
E. P. Dutton
A popular history of the Moros and their wars with Spain and the United States, by an American who had lived in Zamboanga; vivid, partisan and long the only book of its kind in English.

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