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"Tens of thousands of Filipino soldiers and sailors fought and died under the American flag in the Pacific during the Second World War. Yet Americans know little about these casualties, because they know little about America's long history in the Philippines -- or about Filipinos' long history in the US armed forces. Since US Marines first occupied the islands in 1898, war and military service have created an enduring, often-fraught bond between Americans and Filipinos: the axis on which America's first Pacific Century turned. In Bound by War, award-winning historian Christopher Capozzola offers a revelatory new portrait of twentieth-century American foreign relations by following the generations of Filipinos and Americans who crossed the Pacific in military uniforms in the century after America's ships first steamed into Manila Bay."--Publisher's description.
About the author
Christopher Capozzola is professor of history at MIT. Author of the award-winning
Uncle Sam Wants You, he is also a cocurator of "The Volunteers: Americans Join World War I, 1914-1919," a traveling exhibition that originated at The National WWI Museum and Memorial to commemorate the centennial of the First World War. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Summary
A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines, amid a century of Pacific warfare
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A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines, amid a century of Pacific warfare
