With English summary. vii, 280 p. ; 30 cm.

"Since Pearl Harbor the Japanese had been advancing remorselessly. Guam, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, Rabaul, Bougainville; all had fallen. Then Guadalcanal .. the turning point. For six months the battle raged. A Japanese general maintained that the Japanese army lay buried in the graveyard of Guadalcanal." -- back cover. Includes bibliographical references (page [160]). ...

Between July and December 1943, Japanese forces in Panay, the Philippines, perpetrated large-scale and widespread atrocities that deliberately targeted the civilian populace of the island. Houses were burned, crops destroyed, livestock slaughtered, and thousands of civilians of all ages and genders were killed. These atrocities were employed strategically as part of an anti-guerrilla campaign designed ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-198). xxiii, 207 pages illustrations, maps, portraits 24 cm

In a comprehensive study of four decades of military policy, Brian McAllister Linn offers the first detailed history of the U.S. Army in Hawaii and the Philippines between 1902 and 1940. By making extensive use of official records, personal papers, and veterans' accounts - many of which are cited here for the first time - Linn sheds new light on several persistent controversies. He addresses issues ...

In the famous sculpture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's triumphant return to the Philippines in 1944, one man follows the general onto the beach wearing neither helmet nor hat. That man is a radio reporter, one of only a handful who covered the war in the Pacific for the Americans back home. That man is Bill Dunn. This is his story of that war. CBS sent reporter Dunn to the Orient nearly a year before ...

"This fascinating story explores African-American efforts-- at war, at home, and in postwar community politics-- to achieve full citizenship in mid-twentieth-century America. Drawing on oral testimony, unpublished correspondence, archival records, memoirs, and diaries, Robert F. Jefferson explores the curious contradiction of war-effort idealism and entrenched discrimination through the experiences ...