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The return of Allied forces to the Philippines in the fall of 1944 further throttled Japan's already tenuous pipe line to the rich resources of Malaya and the Netherlands Indies, and with it the last vestige of her ability to meet the logistical requirements of a continuing war. The Battle for Leyte Gulf marked the end of Japan as a naval power, forcing her to adopt the desperation kamikaze tactic ...

At the dawn of the twentieth century, U.S. Army occupied Manila and plunged into a decade-long pacification campaign. Armed with technology from America's first information revolution, the U.S. colonial regime created modern police and intelligence units. In Policing America's Empire Alfred W. McCoy shows how this imperial control slowly crushed Filipino revolutionary movement with firepower, surveillance, ...

Special Commemorative Edition. 289 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm

On January 28th, 1945, a raid was organized on the Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines to free the 511 POWs held there. Originally published: The great raid on Cabanatuan. New York : J. Wiley & Sons, 1994. xxi, 258 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm

Shohan. 246 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Shohan. 240 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm.

5 preliminary leaves, 9-178 pages

This book is a tense, powerful, grand account of one of the most daring exploits of World War II. On January 28, 1945, 121 hand-selected troops from the elite U.S. Army 6th Ranger Battalion slipped behind enemy lines in the Philippines. Their mission: march thirty miles in an attempt to rescue 513 American and British POWs who had spent three years in a surreally hellish camp near the city of Cabanatuan. ...

著者ほかの肖像あり. 252 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 19 cm

The story of the Philippine campaign as told by four officers of the Motor torpedo boat squadron 3. cf. Foreword. VIII, 209 p. ; 21 cm.