The Liberation of the Philippines, Paperback - Jon Diamond

General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for ...

Reducere. After crushing Japanese naval power in the Pacific at Leyte Gulf, the U.S. moved to liberate the Philippines. Admiral Morison describes a series of...

DescriptionBeginning with a definition of who the people of The Philippines are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to describe the pr...

Culture and Customs of the Philippines provides the best general overview to the Asian archipelago and to a people with close ties to the United St...

Reducere. The world has often heard of the adventures of the great heros such as Aeneas, Hercules, and Parsifal - but for the first time, the meaning of thos...

Reducere. Love Outraged is a guide book for those who are disenchanted by the limitations of more superficial approaches to emotional and spiritual developme...

Reducere. This beautiful and bright children's picture book brings the story of Teacup's life into your home. Teacup is a real Shih Tzu that lives in the Phi...

Reducere. Before birth control, women * (people who could be impregnated, including gender non-conforming individuals and transmen) were, overwhelmingly, exc...

Reducere. In The Secret Art of Derobio Escrima Grandmaster Dan Medina will take you on a journey into the lives and history of two of Leyte's Legendary Men. ...

Reducere. Maayong Buntag (Good Morning ) is an easy-to-use guide to the Visayan language (also known as Cebuano) - the language for millions of people of the...

Publisher: Paizo Publishing, LLCAuthor(s): Chris SimsNumber of pages: 64Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 275 x 213 x 6Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Gabriel King was a born chicken. He’s afraid of spiders, corpses, loose cows, and just about everything related to the fifth grade. Gabe’s best fri...

Reducere. Join Riley the Raccoon, as she learns from her friends about cultural traditions that celebrate connection, kindness, wonder and much more.Pack you...

Reducere. "Today there is much discussion of the liberation of women, " writes Marie-Louise von Franz, "but it is sometimes overlooked that this can only suc...

When British troops entered Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in April 1945, they confronted a terrible challenge, inside the camp were people, who ...

In 100 Miles to Freedom, U.S. Marine Bob Holland tells the story of the release of 3, 700 American civilian prisoners of the Japanese at Santo Toma...

By January 1943, Australia had emerged from the shadow of war in a strong position. The victories in 1942 at Kokoda, Guadalcanal, Buna, Gona and Sa...

The untold story of the Philippine Constabulary Band offers a unique opportunity to examine the limits and porousness of America's racial ideologie...

Reducere. With a foreword by Gina Apostol. "As a Filipino who dreams in Waray, I have waited too long for Ulir t." A groundbreaking survey of contemporary Ph...

DescriptionA beautiful, comprehensive, and evocative cookbook on a relatively undiscovered cuisine. Despite the Philippines' location right in the ...

Reducere. Rodrigo Duterte was elected President of the Philippines in 2016. In his first 18 months in office, 12, 000 people were murdered on the streets, gu...

A gripping day by day account of the liberation of Paris from the Nazis in August 1944

In just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese ...

Op HUSKY was a vast and daring multi-national amphibious and air landing. The dramatic story is told in well-researched text and superb images true...

Well written and interesting stories about myths in the Philippines and how they compare to myths elsewhere. For the curious as to why such fantast...

DescriptionThe American campaign to capture Okinawa, codename Operation ICEBERG was fought from 1 April to 22 June 1945. 350 miles from Japan, Okin...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of 37 Myths, Legends, and Folktales from around the Philippines that showcase the rich and diverse cultural identity throug...

An eighteenth-century Spanish friar from Galicia, Spain, became an ancestor to countless descendants in the Philippines. This is a journey of one d...

Reducere. DescriptionPeter Caddick-Adams's account of the Allied invasion of France in June 1944 matches the monumental achievement of his book on the Battle...

Reducere. In 1899 the United States, having announced its arrival as a world power during the Spanish-Cuban-American War, inaugurated a brutal war of imperia...

Reducere. DescriptionBased upon exhaustive research in all presidential libraries from Hoover to Clinton, the voluminous archives of the African National Con...

The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence...

Reducere. On April 15, 1945, Brigadier H. L. Glyn Hughes entered Bergen-Belsen for the first time. Waiting for him were 10, 000 unburied, putrefying corpses ...

Reducere. An endless festival amidst an endless war is the central image of this novel of the Philippines of the time of Marcos. Three young people seek reli...

Reducere. The author uses his inquisitive mind to set out and prove the existence of Yamashita's infamous untouched treasure deposits buried all around the P...

DescriptionA groundbreaking and visionary call to action on educating and supporting girls of color, from the highly acclaimed author of Pushout "M...

Publisher: The New PressAuthor(s): Monique W. MorrisNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 216 x 18Cover type: Paperback / sof...

In September 1944, to prevent Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's planned invasion of the Southern Philippines, the Americans att...