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Fighting from a Distance: How Filipino Exiles Helped Topple a Dictator (Asian American Experience)

March 22, 2015

During February 1986, a grassroots revolution overthrew the fourteen-year dictatorship of former president Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. In this book, Jose V. Fuentecilla describes how Filipino exiles and immigrants in the United States played a crucial role in this victory, acting as the overseas arm of the opposition to help return their country to […]
Marines in World War II Commemorative Series: The Pacific – Liberation of the Philippines, Shanghai to Corregidor, The Occupation of Japan, Operations in the Northern Solomons – Bataan Death March

March 22, 2015

Four important U.S. Marines history books are compiled in this fascinating ebook about operations in the Pacific during World War II, including the Philippines, Japan, and the Solomons. Topics covered include Corregidor, the Bataan Death March, the Occupation of Japan, the Northern Solomons, Treasury Islands, Bougainville, Koromokina, Navajo Code Talkers, Battle of Piva Forks, Admiral […]
Vestiges of War: The Philippine-American War and the Aftermath of an Imperial Dream 1899-1999

March 22, 2015

U.S. intervention in the Philippines began with the little-known 1899 Philippine-American War. Using the war as its departure point in analyzing U.S.—Philippine relations, Vestiges of War retrieves this willfully forgotten event and places it where it properly belongs—as the catalyst that led to increasing U.S. interventionism and expansionism in the Asia Pacific region. This seminal, […]
Moroland: The History of Uncle Sam and the Moros 1899-1920

March 22, 2015

Moroland is the lost history of the once-famed struggle between the United States Army and the “wild” Moros, the Muslim peoples of the southern Philippine islands. Lasting over two decades, it was this country’s first sustained encounter with a volatile mixture of nation-building, insurgency, counterinsurgency, and militant Islamism. A byproduct of the Spanish-American War, the […]
Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942 (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

March 22, 2015

During the first three days of the Japanese assault on American Pacific bases in December of 1941, the 24th Pursuit Group, the only unit of interceptor aircraft in the Philippine Islands, was almost destroyed as an effective force. Yet the group’s pilots, doomed from the start by their limited training, an inadequate air warning system, […]
Imelda, Steel Butterfly of the Philippines

March 22, 2015

A major biography by a Pulitzer Price-winning writer of one of the most complex and fascinating women of our time.Book description:”Katherine Ellison has a reporter’s zeal for finding the story within the story. Her book is full of surprises.” David Haward Bain, author of Sitting in Darkness: Americans in the Philippines.”The research here is superb, […]
The Edge of Terror: The Heroic Story of American Families Trapped in the Japanese-occupied Philippines

March 22, 2015

A gripping account of courage, death, and survival in the war-torn islands of the Philippines. As Japanese military strategists planned their secret offensive against the United States in 1941, they designed a simultaneous two-pronged attack to wipe out American military might in the Pacific. While American battleships blew up and sank in Pearl Harbor, Japanese bombers […]
The Souvenir: A Daughter Discovers Her Father’s War

March 22, 2015

Louise Steinman’s American childhood in the fifties was bound by one unequivocal condition: “Never mention the war to your father.” That silence sustained itself until the fateful day Steinman opened an old ammunition box left behind after her parents’ death. In it she discovered nearly 500 letters her father had written to her mother during […]
The USS Flier: Death and Survival on a World War II Submarine

March 22, 2015

The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours […]
Phantom Warrior: The Heroic True Story of Pvt. John McKinney’s One-Man StandAgainst the Japanese in World War II

March 22, 2015

He was awarded the Medal of Honor for his bravery. But his story has never been told…until now. This is the story of John McKinney, who, on the morning of May 11, 1945, received the Medal of Honor for his actions against a Japanese surprise attack. That day, McKinney returned fire, using every available weapon-even […]

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