Frustrated ambition
Subtitle: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine military experience, 1910-1944
By: Richard B. Meixsel
Series: Campaigns and commanders -- volume 61; Campaigns and commanders -- v. 61.
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9780806159058
Subjects: Campaigns; Generals; Philippines. Army; World War, 1939-1945; Military History; Philippines; Officers; Biography; History
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: An untiring advocate of independence : first cadet, 1910-1917; title: "A good future before you" : at home and abroad, 1917-1929; title: "Keeping down Filipino leadership" : War Plans Orange and the Filipino soldier, 1929-1934; title: "We may even be there indefinitely" : origins of the Philippine military system, 1934-1935; title: "El entusiasmo de nuestros jovenes" : implementing the military system, 1935-1939; title: "We will handle the army to suit ourselves" : changing direction, 1939-1940; title: "Nothing better to a soldier" : preparing for war, 1941; title: "The only general with cojones" : Lim on Bataan, I; title: "His division, his kingdom" : Lim on Bataan, II; title: "You could have stopped this useless fighting" : Bataan to Capas, February-July 1942; title: Guerrillero : the final frustration, 1942-1944.