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Frustrated Ambition - General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944 (Hardcover)
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Frustrated Ambition - General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944 (Hardcover)
Series: Campaigns and Commanders Series
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Vicente Podico Lim (1888-1944) was once his country's best-known
soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a
graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every
significant military development in the Philippines during his
thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition is the first in-depth
biography of this forgotten figure, whose career paralleled the
early-twentieth-century history of the Philippine military. As
independence seemed increasingly likely for the Philippines in the
1930s, Lim positioned himself to take a leading role in developing
armed forces for a sovereign nation. But as Lim maneuvered behind
the scenes, Manuel L. Quezon, soon to be the commonwealth
president, revealed that he had invited General Douglas MacArthur
to serve as military adviser to the Philippines. Frustrated
Ambition corrects the conventional historical narrative of events
thereafter - one that emphasizes the failure of the nascent
Philippine military under MacArthur and inflates the general's
heroic role in the defense of Bataan and Corregidor. Richard Bruce
Meixsel restores Lim as the then-recognized leader of the
opposition to MacArthur's mission, and shows how Lim took the
Philippine Army in a more tenable direction as MacArthur's military
system foundered. World War II brought Lim to the fore. While
MacArthur directed his troops from Corregidor, Lim commanded a
division on Bataan that may have suffered more combat losses at the
battle of Abucay than did all American units on Bataan during the
entire campaign. When the U.S. high command turned its efforts to
evacuating the Philippine Islands, Lim began to prepare for the
ensuing underground struggle against the Japanese - a fight that
cost him his life. By recounting Vicente Lim's career, Frustrated
Ambition illuminates forgotten episodes in Philippine history,
offers new perspectives on military affairs during the American
occupation, and recovers the story of Filipino soldiers whose
service changed the course of their country's military history.
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