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What would you have seen had you been in Manila in 1945, just after the Battle? |
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MANILA
1945 - AFTERMATH -
Tales of Men, Myths & Memes by Prof. Dr. Ricardo T. Jose, Richard B. Meixsel, Peter C. Parsons, P.C.'Tip' Whitman & Paul F. Whitman Edited by Paul F. Whitman 12 x 12 inch (33 x 28 cm) format, 364 pages, and with more than 600 images. Shipping weight: 3 lbs. As an educational resource without parallel, it probably presents the most comprehensive collection of images of Manila in 1945 generally available. ABOUT THE BOOK.
"The more I see
of Manila the more it comes home to a person of the horrors of war. It
is really past any description that one could give, and unless one had
previously seen it one could not really appreciate just how much damage
had been done. Beautiful buildings, public and private, churches
schools, residences and the like are just masses of rubble, made more
tragic because they had been up so long. Some even since the early
1600’s. I met a G.I. taking photos and passed the casual statement,
“S’pose you are getting some good pictures?“ and he answered, “They may
be good pictures but I’m not getting any pleasure out of taking them“
and he expresses the opinion of any one who has been to that city. "
That's what my father wrote in one of his letters home from
Manila in 1945. He hadn't been fighting - his job had been to prepare
TOP SECRET communiques within MacArthur's GHQ, and his proximity to
typewriters allowed him to maintain a constant stream of commentaries on
what he found in Manila when the HQ arrived. These were the seeds from
which the book grew, drawing from extensive collections of
contemporaneous photographs of Manila.
The book contains the most comprehensive collection of images of
Manila 1945 available today. It also features three articles which put
the historic experience into a historic, non-revisionist perspective.
That this Revisionism has survived until now is largely due, in
the early days, to the failure to teach history, and in the more
recent times, the belief that mass ignorance constitutes truth.
Facebook has been particularly good at spreading disinformation.
Revisionism isn't recent, nor is it the result of social media -
though it is fed by the social media. It managed to get its foot in the
door as long ago as the 1950's, when America found itself in a war
on the Korean peninsular with a Communist Chinese proxy, and it
needed to justify bases in Japan. It was just an expediency, the sort of
expediency of which politicians are so adept at manipulating, such that
a creeping ignorance as to what had happened during the war became
endemic. But it was the ignorance of Facebook revisionism which pissed me off so much, I created a website to try and set it right, and which caused me to write this book. THE SECOND EDITION Issued in 2024, the second edition now contains an extra 20 pages featuring the definitive article by Richard B. Meixsel who examines the widely-known figure of the number of deaths suffered in the battle, 100,000. He traces this figure to its origins, and finds that it, too, has been a widely accepted myth. |
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Q: Can I see a preview? | A: Sure, we don't expect you to judge the book by its cover. Click here for the preview. | |
Q: What is the price of the book? | A: It depends
on the edition. US$320 for Library Quality Image Wrap US$9.99 for the Adobe.PDF Version The eBOOK version is available only in the 1st Edition - $9.99. |
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Q: That's outrageous!! Why is it so poisonously expensive? | A: The book
was designed prepared for offset printing and distribution in Manila. The target
price was $55. This
didn't happen as our former "so-called" literary agent,
after obtaining our pre-publication version, had ideas
to bring out his own book. Being in possession of my files, he used
them. He even managed to publish my typos under his own name. Had this been anywhere but Manila, I would have sued his worthless hide. Consequently, "AFTERMATH" has had to be released as print-on-demand product by the Blurb printing company ex San Francisco. The cost of print-on-demand books depends on their physical size and the number of pages which they contain, the type of cover, quality of end-pages, etcetera.. This book is hardcover, full color on quality paper, and presented in a large coffee-table size of 12 x 12 inch (30 x 30 cm) format, and delivers in at 364 pages. Blurb's actual printing costs are 95% of the price that you pay. You heard that right! Complain to them, not to me, I have to pay their prices too. PRINT ON DEMAND books are, of their nature, expensive beasts. Think of a book like this as 364 separate color photographs , each twelve-inch square. Then have them custom bound, with expensive end-papers. |
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Q: Are there discount vouchers or coupons available to lower the price? | A: Yes, but
you have to look for them. I suggest you Google the words "Blurb.com,
Discount, Coupon" and the current month. Sometimes you can score
between 10% and 30% depending on how much they need their cash-flow in
San Francisco. If you write me that you want to get a copy, and can't afford the Blurb ransome, I can keep my eye out for a 30% discount when Blurb offers one to their authors. They have a few each year. You'll have to trust me on this, because I'll want your credit card details, delivery address, and even your phone number (they say they need it for the delivery process.) I will destroy your details after a single use. I do not keep info on my computer. |
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Q: I have heard there are different versions of this book. What's with that? | A: That's
right. It's "print-on-demand product" and special versions have
been printed for Australian and American distribution. The most
recent
version, the 2nd Edition, has been prepared for the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk VA.
Special Versions can be ordered which reflect a brand or sponsorship. |
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Q: I have an Apple iPad tablet. Is there a version for it? | A: Yes.
The FIRST EDITION is optimized for Apple products and sells at $9.99. Click below
and the link will take you to the preview. Unfortunately, Blurb no longer produces ePub files, because they had to licence the fonts for each publication. |
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Q: I have an an Android tablet. Will there be an Android version released? | The publisher creates an ePub file. It works with Amazon Kindle, Apple iPad, iPhone, Android and Mac OS. | |
Q: How do I buy it? | Only through
the publisher - and you get there via the
PREVIEW PAGE. |
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(BACK COVER - THE MAP PROVIDED TO THE ARMORED COLUMN ENTERING MANILA INDICATED THE WIDTH OF STREETS AVAILABLE TO THE TANKS) CLICK HERE AND THE LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO THE BLURB PREVIEW PAGE |
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(BELOW: THE 1ST EDITION AT A SINGLE GLANCE) |
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