
Rampage
MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
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Narrated by:
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Jesse Einstein
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By:
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James M. Scott
The definitive history of one of the most brutal campaigns of the war in the Pacific.
Before World War II, Manila was a slice of America in Asia, populated with elegant neoclassical buildings, spacious parks, and home to thousands of US servicemen and business executives who enjoyed the relaxed pace of the tropics. The outbreak of the war, however, brought an end to the good life. General Douglas MacArthur, hoping to protect the Pearl of the Orient, declared the Philippine capital an open city and evacuated his forces. The Japanese seized Manila on January 2, 1942, rounding up and interning thousands of Americans.
MacArthur, who escaped soon after to Australia, famously vowed to return. For nearly three years, he clawed his way north, obsessed with redeeming his promise and turning his earlier defeat into victory. By early 1945, he prepared to liberate Manila, a city whose residents by then faced widespread starvation. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city as he did, MacArthur planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard. But the enemy had other plans. Determined to fight to the death, Japanese marines barricaded intersections, converted buildings into fortresses, and booby-trapped stores, graveyards, and even dead bodies.
The 29-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in a massacre as heinous as the Rape of Nanking.
Based on extensive research in the United States and the Philippines, including war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history.
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This book defies description. If you think you know how low the human race can crawl, well there is a lower level. Rampage describes the MacArthur family legacy as your introduction to this point in history. The staggering detail, research, word-by-word, moment-by-moment history of this battle defies my understanding. It is riveting, completely absorbing and stunning in the tale that is told. To quote from the book "Even American investigators proved at a loss to comprehend the widespread butchery, exhausting the thesaurus for adjectives like diabolical, inhuman, savage ..." "The New York Times: 'As foul a tale of savagery as recorded in all history' ".
Yamashita's trial is a story unto itself. I had pity on the defense team, whose families were taking heat because of their participation on the defense of this individual. Surprisingly, some of the defense team held him non-accountable for the attrocities committed in his territories. And when the trial was handed up to the Supreme Court, I shook my head in dull denial, muttering "noooo".
I had no idea. I really had no idea how truly hideous it was in the Pacific. Now I know.
Jesse Einstein's calm mellifluous telling of this awful tale is the perfect underscore. I will be looking for more of his narrations.
I am already looking for more of Mr. Scott's books. His research is astounding and his telling is ... I, too, search for adjectives ... compelling.
(I completely agree with the review typed in all CAPS. This book IS all CAPS.)
Woosh, Sound of air leaving lungs
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Shocking
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Not read well. Was there no producer to stop for the numerous times English words were mispronounced? Fortunately his subsequent titles are excellent performances.
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The Battle of Manila though rapidly becomes secondary in Scott's narrative as the majority of the Rampage given over to the Japanese army's rapid descent into chaos and barbarism. Toward the end of the battle, the Japanese troops acting on a fear of Manila 's civilian population, racism and General Yamashita's (Like MacArthur, Yamashita's HQ was well outside the city.) indifference causally slaughtered and systematically raped and tortured thousands of helpless civilians. Overall I found Scott's knows his subject well, though I expected more on the battle and tactics. However it was in his quest to "get it all down" that Rampage became for this listener mind numbing as chapter focuses and relentlessly details murder, rape and pillage.
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