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eppur_se_muova

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6. "Rampage" sounds like your best bet -- certainly the most recent and up-to-date. I did read ...

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 06:08 AM

Oct 2024

... the Pulitzer Prize-winning "In Our Image" by Stanley Karnow, a noted author of East/Southeast Asian history. The treatment of the Battle of Manila is not the focus of the book, but sufficiently harrowing. And the coverage of the US-Phillippine war of 1899-1902 will come as a shock to most Americans -- an era of explicit imperialism on the part of a country born of a revolution against imperialism.

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/in-our-image-americas-empire-in-the-philippines_stanley-karnow/276120/item/#edition=3502290&idiq=3081367

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I'm looking for ageneral info book on the Battle for Manila Feb-Mar 1945 [View all] irisblue Oct 2024 OP

If you want source material Frasier Balzov Oct 2024 #1

I used my local library services to reserve a copy of irisblue Oct 2024 #2

There's a book called Rampage that's excellent JoseBalow Oct 2024 #3

Thx, I already reserved that one at my local library irisblue Oct 2024 #4

That covers pretty much everything about it JoseBalow Oct 2024 #5

"Rampage" sounds like your best bet -- certainly the most recent and up-to-date. I did read ... eppur_se_muova Oct 2024 #6