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Omslagtitel: "I shall return." 1 dl. [ongepag.] : krt. ; 28 cm

Met lit. opg. en index. XVIII, 623 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + losse krt.

Met lit. opg. en index. xxii, 756 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Met lit. opg. en index. xviii, 626 p. : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Met lit. opg. en index. xviii, 420 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. + Bevat 1 losse kaart in pochette.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-452) and index. xiv, 461 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

This is a personal account by a member of General MacArthur's staff of the Japanese invasion of the Philippines in World War II, the fall of Bataan and Corregidor, his own capture by the enemy and his imprisonment in a POW camp, and the conditions at the camp. The author also describes his escape and work with the guerrilla forces and his participation in the recapture of Corregidor in February 1945. ...

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