| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 C595 1995a |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14243 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9780891415787
- International Standard Book Number - 9780891417710
- International Standard Book Number - 9719219033
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 767.4 C595
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Connaughton, Richard
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The battle for Manila
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Richard Connaughton, John Pimlott, and Duncan Anderson
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Novato, CA :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Presidio Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1995.
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Makati City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Platypus Publishing,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1995
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 224 p., [8] p. of plates :
- Other physical details - ill., maps
- Dimensions - 25 x 17 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - Various book cover designs
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Maps -- Pearl of the Orient -- The Japanese in Manila : January 1942-January 1945 -- Envelopment -- Over the Pasig -- The battle joined -- Within walls -- The unwanted battle : an appraisal -- Index
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Researched account of the tragic battle to liberate Manila from the Japanese in February 1945.
The three British authors are military historians who try to give a more objective view of the battle and its atrocities, and try to look at the battle from all sides. They conclude that had MacArthur not encircled the city, the Japanese defenders led by Adm. Sanji Iwabuchi would have pulled out as ordered. (Other evidence indicates Iwabuchi would have stayed anyway).
The one-month battle cost the Americans 6,500 casualties, the Japanese 20,000 (most killed) and over 200,000 civilians (of which half were killed; the others would be scarred for life).
This is one of the few serious studies on the battle and has been reprinted in various editions. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Manila.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Manila (Philippines)
- General subdivision - History, Military.
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