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Caractéristiques de l'objet
- État
- ISBN
- 9780393246940
- Book Title
- Rampage : Macarthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
- Publisher
- Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Military
- Item Weight
- 39.6 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 640 Pages
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Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of U.S. servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans. MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies. The twenty-nine-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking. Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393246949
ISBN-13
9780393246940
eBay Product ID (ePID)
248578498
Product Key Features
Book Title
Rampage : Macarthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
Number of Pages
640 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Military / World War II, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.7 in
Item Weight
39.6 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
As the president of an organization of survivors and their descendants of the Battle of Manila, I found Rampage to be not just history, but a very personal story, one through which I learned about the incredible struggles of some of my own family members during that tragic 29-day fight. This battle, which is not well known among World War II historians, is laid out in rich detail. The stories of the survivors come alive in this book. The trial of Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita at the latter part of the book is an eye opener. A must read., The Battle of Manila has gone down in history, like the Siege of Leningrad and the Warsaw Uprising, as an example of the sheer destructiveness and civilian cost of modern combat--costs that continue to this day out of all proportion to the numbers of soldiers involved. In re-telling the tragic story of Manila's fate in February, 1945, James Scott does not spare us the suffering, carnage, heroism, and Japanese atrocities committed--or the ethical problems in fixing the blame for a 29-day crime against humanity. Rampage confirms Scott's place in the first rank of American World War II historians., Rampage is a deeply researched and superbly written account of one of the darkest chapters of the Pacific War. I found it hard to read, but also hard to put down., James M. Scott knows how to search long and hard for the personal details that make up a gripping narrative. Admirers of his Target Tokyo will find the same skills at work in Rampage. And parts of the story he tells, particularly about the Battle of Manila, are little known, even to those of us who can never stop reading about World War II., A chilling, sometimes horrifying narrative of some of the fiercest urban fighting of World War II....Scott gives voices to the victims, and that is an important service to history....[He] is a fine writer, and he musters his considerable talents to move the storyline forward., A masterful re-telling of the events and the people caught in a city that died. There are no embellishments in James Scott's account of the Battle of Manila: soldiers and civilians are allowed to speak about the horrors largely forgotten or unknown. The stories make for gruesome reading, but these stories have to be told, so that the suffering--and the tragedy--of the Philippines' capital city and its people may never be repeated. James Scott is to be congratulated for giving the victims a chance to speak. It is high time that the tragedy that befell Manila in 1945 be made known to a larger audience. Rampage does this., Rampage is a horrifyingly unforgettable book....Reminds us once again that man's inhumanity to man belies the notion of human progress. The massacres in Manila that [Scott] so painstakingly details, take their place among the 20th century's most monstrous and lurid crimes., Illuminating....An eloquent testament to a doomed city and its people. Rampage is a moving, passionate monument to one of humanity's darkest moments., A masterpiece of historical reportage, brilliantly bringing to life the savage battle for Manila--one of the most dramatic and disturbing episodes of World War II., This is General Douglas MacArthur as you have not heard him, this is World War II as you have not seen it before, this is history written with a wide sweep and deep focus, the prose and reporting falling in aching rhythms on scenes of beauty, despair, defiance, the terrible trespasses people make, and their striving to endure. James Scott's skill as a reporter and his precision as a stylist make this story unstoppable from the very first scene. Across these pages falls the shadow of a history we thought we knew well, but in Scott's telling, so much is revealed and illuminated. A bold surprise of a history book. A treasure for lovers of stories beautifully told. Transcendent., Rampage is a deeply researched and superbly written account of one of the darkest chapters of the Pacific War....Hard to put down., A relentless narrative of one of the darkest chapters of the Pacific War....Deeply researched and superbly written., An excellent but wrenchingly graphic account of one of the least commemorated massacres in World War II....Scott has dug very deep into the U.S. and Philippine records of the battle and uses them deftly....[He] wields the vivid testimony of the rare survivors to portray the full horrors of the events., What Iris Chang did for our understanding of the Rape of Nanking, James M. Scott has now done for the Battle of Manila. Here is a sweeping tale of frenzied fighting and heartbreaking devastation, written by a meticulous historian who has unflinchingly probed the truth of this largely forgotten episode from the Pacific., Told with rich layers of perspective and cinematic immediacy that transports the reader to the streets of Manila, this is a gut-wrenching and rewarding reading experience., This is General Douglas MacArthur as you have not heard him; this is World War II as you have not seen it before; this is history written with a wide sweep and deep focus, the prose and reporting falling in aching rhythms on scenes of beauty, despair, defiance, the terrible trespasses people make, and their striving to endure. James Scott's skill as a reporter and his precision as a stylist make this story unstoppable from the very first scene. Across these pages falls the shadow of a history we thought we knew well, but in Scott's telling, so much is revealed and illuminated. A bold surprise of a history book. A treasure for lovers of stories beautifully told. Transcendent., An incredibly important story told by a gifted journalist-historian. Within the pages of this book, Scott honors the m any victims and heroes of the battle and reminds the reader that true evil does exist in the world--and that it absolutely must be fought., In Rampage, James M. Scott tells a story of tenacity and heroism; but it is also a record of near-unbelievable savagery that would make hard reading were it not for the vivid, forceful prose and a narrative drive that never falters. Scott draws on hundreds of first-hand accounts to give life and urgency to a wholly engrossing tale freighted with the greatest moral and historical significance. When one civilian internee who survived the Battle of Manila toured the leveled city afterward, she wrote, 'I listened all those weeks to the guns. Now I see what they did. Everyone should see it and learn one lesson forever.' Scott's wrenching epic lets us see it with searing clarity.
Lccn
2018-289656
Dewey Decimal
940.54/259916
Lc Classification Number
D767.4
Copyright Date
2018
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