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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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Details
- 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.
- Subject
- 1898-1999
- Armed Forces > Officers
- Generals > Philippines > Biography
- Generals
- Lim, Vicente, 1888-1944
- Military campaigns
- Philippines > History > 1898-1946
- Philippines > History, Military > 20th century
- Philippines
- Philippines. Army > Officers > Biography
- Philippines. Army
- World War (1939-1945)
- World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Philippines
- 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