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Title: The Philippine War, 1899-1902 (Modern War Studies (Paperback)) by Brian McAllister Linn ISBN: 0-7006-1225-4 Publisher: University Press of Kansas Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: The apologist/centrist view from the West
Comment: Although Linn and supporters of this view (including elitists such as the editors of the Council on Foreign Relations' Foreign Affairs)consider the deliberate provocations and genocidal fury of the United States, exhaustively detailed by Stuart C. Miller and other critics of the war, to be a "myth". This is an outrageous assertion, that Linn fails to support, while attempting to quietly paper over the history and repair the reputations of the Americans who killed a military disadvantaged opposition with brutality. Linn brushes off the butchery of Samar as no more than "harsh", while pushing the idea that Filipinos actually welcomed the US. Linn's bias in support of "benevolent assimilation" is clear. This dry blow by blow of military operations does not go into the much more important decision making at the all-important policy and geostrategy level.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Read of the Philippine Insurrection
Comment: It is evident that the author spent a great deal of time researching, cataloguing and organizing this tale of the Philippine and American conflicts that occurred in the Philippine Islands, resulting from the Spanish American War. Probably no other text, has succinctly described an often confusing dilemma which existed between the Filipinos, who were fighting for their independence, and the Americans who were fighting to quell the rebellion as their benevolent benefactor. The book more than adequately covers the phases of the conflicts which occurred throughout the islands. The initial phase of conflict was the Filipino frontal assaults in and around Manila. Failing to achieve lasting victories, their frontal assault strategy gradually evolved into guerilla warfare; a harbinger, many years later, of what America would face in Vietnam. To adequately understand the locations and occurrences, the reader needs to purchase a medium scaled map of the Philippines. The book lacks maps and graphics which adequately give the reader a visual image of where the conflicts happened. In about a half dozen, or more, instances, the author has a problem with describing accurately locational directions. For example, he states that a place is west of another place when in reality it is definitely east of that place. This problem becomes minor when considering the amount of information the author relates to the reader. An excellent read for anyone having an interest in Philippine History.
Rating: 2
Summary: Fails to Cover All Events
Comment: I bought the book because I was interested in the battle of Malabon. Specifically, to get a history of the 71st Company, Coast Artillery Corps and the 3rd U.S. Infantry involvement. The battle for Malabon is not mentioned in the book even though companies of the 2nd Oregon Volunteer Infantry and the 1st Washington Volunteer Infantry were engaged on 25 March 1899. There is no mention in the book about the C.A.C. and just two brief entries about the 3rd Infantry. A definite waste of my money.
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Title: The U.S. Army and Counterinsurgency in the Philippine War, 1899-1902 by Brian McAllister Linn ISBN: 0807849480 Publisher: University of North Carolina Press Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Benevolent Assimilation: The American Conquest of the Philippines, 1899-1903 by Stuart Miller ISBN: 0300030819 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 1984 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by STANLEY KARNOW ISBN: 0345328167 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 03 March, 1990 List Price(USD): $27.00 |
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Title: Uncle Sam's Little Wars: The Spanish-American War, Philippine Insurrection, and Boxer Rebellion, 1898-1902 (G.I., the Illustrated History of the American Soldier, His Uniform and His Equipment , No 15) by J. Phillip Langellier ISBN: 1853673579 Publisher: Stackpole Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Muddy Glory: America's Indian Wars in the Philippines by Russell Roth ISBN: 0815804024 Publisher: Christopher Pub House Pub. Date: 01 January, 1981 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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