" On December 8, 1941, the day after the surprise attack on
Pearl Harbor, the Japanese invaded the Philippine Islands, catching
American forces unprepared and forcing their eventual surrender.
Among the American soldiers who managed to avoid capture was
twenty-five-year-old Lieutenant Robert Lapham, who was to play a
major role in the resistance to the brutal Japanese occupation.
Lapham's Raiders is the memoir of one man's guerrilla experiences.
A collaboration between Lapham and historian Bernard Norling, the
book also offers a detailed assessment of the most extensive land
campaign in the Pacific war and a vivid portrayal of Allied
guerrilla activity. Through letters, records and the recollections
of Lapham and others, the drama of the "mean, dirty, brutal
struggle to the death" of guerrilla warfare in the Pacific theater
is reconstructed and waged again within these pages. After emerging
from the jungles of Bataan and in the face of daunting odds, Lapham
built from scratch and commanded a devastating guerrilla force
behind enemy lines. His Luzon Guerrilla Armed Forces (LGAF) evolved
into an army of thirteen thousand men that eventually controlled
the entire northern half of Luzon's great Central Plain, an area of
several thousand square miles. Lapham and Norling shed light on the
clandestine activities of the LGAF and other guerrilla operations,
assess the damages of war to the Filipino people, and discuss the
United States' postwar treatment of the newly independent
Philippine nation. They also offer a fuller understanding of
Japan's wartime failures in the Philippines, the Pacific, and
elsewhere in Asia, and of America's postwar failure to fully
realize opportunities there.
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