An edition of Frustrated ambition (2018)

Frustrated ambition

General Vicente Lim and the Philippine military experience, 1910-1944

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Frustrated ambition
Richard B. Meixsel
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An edition of Frustrated ambition (2018)

Frustrated ambition

General Vicente Lim and the Philippine military experience, 1910-1944

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"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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English
Pages
351

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Table of 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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Series
Campaigns and commanders -- volume 61, Campaigns and commanders -- v. 61.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
355.0092, B
Library of Congress
U55.L54 M45 2018, U55.L54M45 2018

The Physical Object

Pagination
xii, 351 pages
Number of pages
351

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL26958190M
ISBN 10
0806159057
ISBN 13
9780806159058
LCCN
2017026957
OCLC/WorldCat
992798614

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