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On par with the destruction of Warsaw, between February and March, 1945, 200,000 of Manila's own citizens were to suffer during their "liberation." Using newly discovered archival material and personal interviews with survivors, the story of the Battle for Manila has finally been told. Download a PDF of the cover and back cover of the Battle for Manila. Download a PDF of chapter 1 of the Battle for Manila. To view the PDF files, you'll need Adobe Acrobat reader. | |
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Prof. Ricardo Trota Jose, author of "The Philippine Army: 1935-1941" calls the book "An important book on the Battle of Manila, reliving th trauma of those days coupled with the analysis of professional military historians. Especially needed as the tragedy of the battle has to be remembered by generations to come." While Jeremy Barns of the Asian Institute of Management has written this eloquent capsule commentary: "Whereas the Japanese occupation did violence to the lives of Manileņos of all stripes, the Battle for Manila inadvertently represented something much more profound: the demise of a great city together with its unique ways and worldview. From the smoke of heavy artillery and aerial bombing, Manila emerged much diminished; the wholesale disappearance and destruction of that which had stood for centuries left and continues to leave a spiritual vacuum that robs us of that sense of our past and nobility which our forebears could so easily claim and take for inspiration. The sad and lasting crux of the matter is the reality that with the tangible goes the intangible; with Manila the Philippines. "When Kaifeng, China's imperial capital in the Sung dynasty was captured by invading hordes and then consigned to complete destruction by merciless flames, history tells us that poets throughout the empire wept, for they saw in the flames, not only the passing of great beauty, but of the civilization they had extolled. "This welcome new edition of Richard Connaughton's work is to be valued as a highly lucid, well-written and stirring account of a truly tragic and appalling event. Such a chronicle is unfortunately a rarity and, its many merits notwithstanding, this fact alone demands the presence of 'Battle for Manila' on the bookshelf." About "The Battle for Manila" This Special Asian Edition has been published in cooperation with the authors in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Fall of Bataan and Corregidor. 206 pages, available for the special pre-launch price of 440 pesos or 8.80 US dollars the rest of the world (we regret that this edition is not for sale in North America). Contents:
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The most devastating untold story of World War II. It is February, 1945. Manila, the "Pearl of the Orient," has been under occupation by the Japanese for over three years. General Douglas MacArthur is about to fulfill his promise to the capital he evacuated on December 30, 1941.
