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American guerrilla: my war behind Japanese lines / Roger Hilsman

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brassey's Commemorative WWII SeriesPublication details: Washington: Brassey's (US) Inc, 1991Description: xiii, 312 pages: illustrations; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0080405800 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Summary: During World War II, Roger Hilsman fought in Burma with the legendary Merrill’s Marauders until he was machine-gunned. Then, at age twenty-five, he led a battalion of indigenous troops behind Japanese lines. At the war’s end, he headed a POW rescue mission to Manchuria, where the prisoners included his own father. An exciting, unusual coming-of-age story, American Guerrilla concludes with reflections on how Hilsman’s wartime experiences influenced his involvement in early Vietnam War policymaking when he served in the Kennedy administration.
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During World War II, Roger Hilsman fought in Burma with the legendary Merrill’s Marauders until he was machine-gunned. Then, at age twenty-five, he led a battalion of indigenous troops behind Japanese lines. At the war’s end, he headed a POW rescue mission to Manchuria, where the prisoners included his own father. An exciting, unusual coming-of-age story, American Guerrilla concludes with reflections on how Hilsman’s wartime experiences influenced his involvement in early Vietnam War policymaking when he served in the Kennedy administration.

GUERILLA WARFARE, VIETNAM WAR, MANCHURIA

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