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irisblue

(37,924 posts) Tue Oct 29, 2024, 02:52 AM Oct 2024

I'm looking for ageneral info book on the Battle for Manila Feb-Mar 1945

I stumbled on a photo of Rizal Memorial Baseball Stadium and realized I know next to nothing about the war in the Philippines, except for the movies from 1940s.

Help me out please?

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I'm looking for ageneral info book on the Battle for Manila Feb-Mar 1945 (Original Post) 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

Frasier Balzov

(5,103 posts)

1. If you want source material

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:00 AM

Oct 2024

check out the notes and references at the bottom of the Wikipedia article.

Otherwise, the article itself may serve your purpose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Manila_(1945)

irisblue

(37,924 posts)

2. I used my local library services to reserve a copy of

Reply to Frasier Balzov (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:05 AM

Oct 2024

James M Scott,. Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila (W. W. Norton, 2018).

Thx

JoseBalow

(9,741 posts)

3. There's a book called Rampage that's excellent

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:06 AM

Oct 2024

I checked out a few books about MacArthur from the library a few years ago, and one of them called Rampage was all about the battle of Manila. I can't remember the author, but I am sure you can easily get it through your library. It's a big book and very detailed, but I couldn't put it down.

irisblue

(37,924 posts)

4. Thx, I already reserved that one at my local library

Reply to JoseBalow (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:16 AM

Oct 2024

JoseBalow

(9,741 posts)

5. That covers pretty much everything about it

Reply to irisblue (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 29, 2024, 03:21 AM

Oct 2024

It's a great book, enjoy!

eppur_se_muova

(42,518 posts)

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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