The author’ s interest in writing historical accounts came rather late- after he was tasked with writing the 50-year history of his alma mater. Only then did he take to it like fish to water. To him, the past is like a large jigsaw puzzle where events and the persons involved had to be assembled until they made sense, until one saw their logic. In 1998 during the centennial of the Philippine Independence, he wrote a series of articles in The Freeman, a Cebu daily, about the struggle of Cebuanos against the Spanish colonial forces. This was entitled Leon Kilat and Cebu’ s Revolution.
In 1999, The Freeman was awarded“ Best in Historical and Cultural Reporting” by the prestigious Philippine Press Institute and the Frederick Ebert Stiftung because of that series.
On April 3, this year, it was published by the Tres de Abril General Services and the Palm Grass Hotel in Cebu.
A second book on history, entitled Heroes, Brigands, Spies was launched in mid-June, this year. This is about the guerrillas in Leyte and their deadly internal wars during the Japanese occupation of the island in the 1940s.
Lukban is his third book published so far. This is probably the most comprehensive account of the Philippine-American war in Samar island.