Redemption

MacArthur and the Campaign for the Philippines

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

AvPeter R. Mansoor,Peter R. (Ohio State University) Mansoor,Peter R Mansoor

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Redemption is a sweeping new history of the largest and costliest campaign waged by US armed forces during the Pacific War. Peter Mansoor surveys the course of the Philippines campaign, from the Japanese invasion and the Filipino guerrilla operations which contested occupation to the US Army's return to Leyte and the subsequent battles of liberation. Central to the book is a re-evaluation of the leadership of General Douglas MacArthur, one of the most controversial military commanders in US history. At times brilliant, courageous, and politically astute, MacArthur was also egotistical, publicity hungry, often ignorant of conditions at the front, and self-certain to a fault. In their return to the Philippines, MacArthur and his forces liberated millions of Filipinos and severed a critical Japanese resource lifeline. But he also achieved something much rarer - redemption on the same ground and against the same enemy that defeated him earlier in the war.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-08-14
Mått230 x 40 x 150 mm
Vikt1 015 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor600
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781009541190

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'An exceptional study of the leadership and command exercised by General Douglas MacArthur in the largest military campaign in the Pacific War - the triumphal return of U.S. forces to the Philippines. Written by Professor Peter Mansoor, one of the foremost soldier-scholars of our time (and my Executive Officer during the Surge in Iraq), Redemption is a compelling, fascinating, and enthralling examination of MacArthur's exercise of strategic command – one that includes a particularly superb account of the often overlooked and important contribution of the Filipino guerrilla movement to the overall campaign. Redemption is a must read for all readers interested in leadership, history, and warfare!' David Petraeus, US Army (Ret.); former Commander of the Surge in Iraq, US Central Command, and Coalition Forces in Afghanistan; former Director of the CIA; and author of the New York Times' bestseller, Conflict: The Evolution of Warfare from Ukraine to Gaza