Frustrated ambition : General Vicente Lim and the Philippine military experience, 1910-1944 / Richard B. Meixsel

Author:: Meixsel, Richard B., 1955-
Published:: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
Physical Description:: xii, 351 pages ; 24 cm.

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Campaigns and commanders ; v. 61.

Contents:

An untiring advocate of independence : first cadet, 1910-1917 -- "A good future before you" : at home and abroad, 1917-1929 -- "Keeping down Filipino leadership" : War Plans Orange and the Filipino soldier, 1929-1934 -- "We may even be there indefinitely" : origins of the Philippine military system, 1934-1935 -- "El entusiasmo de nuestros jovenes" : implementing the military system, 1935-1939 -- "We will handle the army to suit ourselves" : changing direction, 1939-1940 -- "Nothing better to a soldier" : preparing for war, 1941 -- "The only general with cojones" : Lim on Bataan, I -- "His division, his kingdom" : Lim on Bataan, II -- "You could have stopped this useless fighting" : Bataan to Capas, February-July 1942 -- Guerrillero : the final frustration, 1942-1944.

Summary:

"Uses the career of Vicente Lim, the first Filipino graduate of West Point and commanding general of a Philippine Army division on Bataan during World War II, to reappraise the military history of both the Commonwealth-era Philippine Army (1936-1942) and the Philippines during the American period of occupation"--

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9780806159058 hardcover alkaline paper
0806159057 hardcover alkaline paper

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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