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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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Campaigns, Generals, Philippines. Army, World War, 1939-1945, Military History, Philippines, Officers, Biography, History, Philippines, biography, Generals, biography, Philippines, history, World war, 1939-1945, campaigns, philippinesPeople
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Frustrated ambition: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine military experience, 1910-1944
2018
in English
0806159057 9780806159058
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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