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Lapham's Raiders : Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945 by Bernard Norling and Robert Lapham (1996, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity Press of Kentucky

ISBN-100813119499

ISBN-139780813119496

eBay Product ID (ePID)980983

Product Key Features

Number of Pages312 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameLapham's Raiders : Guerrillas in the Philippines, 1942-1945

Publication Year1996

SubjectMilitary / World War II, United States / 20th Century, Military / United States

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaHistory

AuthorBernard Norling, Robert Lapham

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight24.1 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN95-020719

Dewey Edition20

Reviews"Lapham is a well-educated, literate writer who does not focus on his own exploits or inflate his accomplishments, as many other surviving guerrilla leaders have done.... The result is an extremely valuable work that belongs in all World War II collections.-- Library Journal" -- Library Journal, "Lapham is a well-educated, literate writer who does not focus on his own exploits or inflate his accomplishments, as many other surviving guerrilla leaders have done.... The result is an extremely valuable work that belongs in all World War II collections." -- Library Journal, Lapham is a well-educated, literate writer who does not focus on his own exploits or inflate his accomplishments, as many other surviving guerrilla leaders have done.... The result is an extremely valuable work that belongs in all World War II collections.

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal940.53/599

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Synopsis On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender. Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Robert Lapham, who was to play a major role in the resistance to the brutal Japanese occupation. Lapham's Raiders is the memoir of one man's guerrilla experiences. A collaboration between Lapham and historian Berna|9780813119496|, On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender. Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Robert Lapham, who was to play a major role in the resistance to the brutal Japanese occupation. Lapham's Raiders is the memoir of one man's guerrilla experiences. A collaboration between Lapham and historian Bernard Norling, the book also offers a detailed assessment of the most extensive land campaign in the Pacific war and a vivid portrayal of Allied guerrilla activity. Through letters, records and the recollections of Lapham and others, the drama of the "mean, dirty, brutal struggle to the death" of guerrilla warfare in the Pacific theater is reconstructed and waged again within these pages. After emerging from the jungles of Bataan and in the face of daunting odds, Lapham built from scratch and commanded a devastating guerrilla force behind enemy lines. His Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces (LGAF) evolved into an army of thirteen thousand men that eventually controlled the entire northern half of Luzon's great Central Plain, an area of several thousand square miles. Lapham and Norling shed light on the clandestine activities of the LGAF and other guerrilla operations, assess the damages of war to the Filipino people, and discuss the United States' postwar treatment of the newly independent Philippine nation. They also offer a fuller understanding of Japan's wartime failures in the Philippines, the Pacific, and elsewhere in Asia, and of America's postwar failure to fully realize opportunities there.

LC Classification NumberD802.P52L896 1996