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Frustrated ambition : General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience 19101944

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press,


Title Details
  • Frustrated ambition :
Publishers
  • Norman :University of Oklahoma Press,c2018
Descriptions
  • xii, 351 pages :illustrations, maps ;24 cm.
Isbn
    9780806159058
Subjects
  • Lim, Vicente, -- 1888-1944.
  • Philippines. -- Army -- Officers -- Biography.
  • Generals -- Philippines -- Biography.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines.
  • Philippines -- History, Military -- 20th century.
  • Philippines -- History -- 1898-1946.
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Place
  • Philippines
  • Philippines
Location RHC
Item Call Number U 55 .L54 M45 2018
Status Available
Barcode 18388
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - 9780806159058
  • Qualifying information - alk. paper)
Geographic Area Code
  • Geographic area code - a-ph---
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - U 55 .L54
  • Item number - M45 2018
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
  • Classification number - B
  • Edition number - 23
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Meixsel, Richard B.,
  • Dates associated with a name - 1955-
  • Relator term - author.
Title Statement
  • Title - Frustrated ambition :
  • Remainder of title - General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944 /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc. - Richard B. Meixsel.
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Norman :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - University of Oklahoma Press,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2018
Physical Description
  • Extent - xii, 351 pages :
  • Other physical details - illustrations, maps ;
  • Dimensions - 24 cm.
Content Type
  • Content type term - text
Media Type
  • Media type term - unmediated
Carrier Type
  • Carrier type term - volume
Series Statement
  • Series statement - Campaigns and commanders ;
  • Volume/sequential designation - volume 61
Bibliography, Etc. Note
  • Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-339) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
  • Formatted contents note - 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.
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc. - "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"--
  • Assigning source - Provided by publisher.
Subject Personal Name
  • Personal name - Lim, Vicente,
  • Dates associated with a name - 1888-1944.
Subject Corporate Name
  • Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - Philippines.
  • Subordinate unit - Army
  • General subdivision - Officers
  • Form subdivision - Biography.
Subject Topical Term
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Generals
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines
  • Form subdivision - Biography.
  • Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
  • General subdivision - Campaigns
  • Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
Subject Geographic Name
  • Geographic name - Philippines
  • General subdivision - History, Military
  • Chronological subdivision - 20th century.
  • Geographic name - Philippines
  • General subdivision - History
  • Chronological subdivision - 1898-1946.