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Frustrated ambition : General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944 /

Title
Frustrated ambition : General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944 / Richard B. Meixsel.
Author
Meixsel, Richard B., 1955-
Publication
  • Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
  • ©2018

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Description
xii, 351 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"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"--
Series Statement
Campaigns and commanders ; volume 61
Uniform Title
Campaigns and commanders ; v. 61.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biography.
  • History.
  • Military history.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-339) and index.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 9780806159058
  • 0806159057
LCCN
2017026957
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library