History of Philippines Books

Last updated: January 2, 2012

1. Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission by Hampton Sides Published: May 7, 2002 Score: 12.34
2. The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour by James D. Hornfischer Published: March 29, 2005 Score: 7.64
3. Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath by Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman Published: March 2, 2010 Score: 6.01
4. Imperial Grunts: On the Ground with the American Military, from Mongolia to the Philippines to Iraq and Beyond by Robert D. Kaplan Published: September 12, 2006 Score: 1.35
5. We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the Japanese by Elizabeth Norman Published: May 1, 2000 Score: 1.29
6. Halsey's Typhoon: The True Story of a Fighting Admiral, an Epic Storm, and an Untold Rescue by Robert Drury and Tom Clavin Published: November 10, 2007 Score: 1.27
7. George Preddy, Top Mustang Ace by Joe Noah and Sam Sox Jr Published: May 29, 2011 Score: 1
8. Clash of The Carriers: The True Story of the Marianas Turkey Shoot of World War II by Barrett Tillman and Stephen Coonts Published: November 7, 2006 Score: 0.86
9. Pacific Rims: Beermen Ballin' in Flip-Flops and the Philippines' Unlikely Love Affair with Basketball by Rafe Bartholomew Published: June 7, 2011 Score: 0.75
10. Battle of Surigao Strait (Twentieth-Century Battles) by Anthony P. Tully Published: April 14, 2009 Score: 0.31
11. The Rescue: A True Story of Courage and Survival in World War II by Steven Trent Smith Published: January 31, 2003 Score: 0.28
12. Globocop: How America Sold Its Soul and Lost Its Way by Mark David Ledbetter Published: April 1, 2010 Score: 0.26
13. The Battle for Leyte Gulf: The Incredible Story of World War II's Largest Naval Battle by C. Vann Woodward and Evan Thomas Published: November 17, 2007 Score: 0.26
14. MY HITCH IN HELL (Potomac's Memories of War) by Lester I. Tenney Published: June 30, 2007 Score: 0.21
15. The War Journal of Major Damon "Rocky" Gause by Damon Gause and Stephen E. Ambrose Published: August 1, 2000 Score: 0.2
16. The Battle of Leyte Gulf: 23-26 October 1944 (Bluejacket Books) by Thomas J. Cutler Published: November 1, 2001 Score: 0.18
17. Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold by Peggy Seagrave and Sterling Seagrave Published: September 1, 2003 Score: 0.17
18. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines by Stanley Karnow Published: March 3, 1990 Score: 0.16
19. American Guerrilla: The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann-The Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army Against the Japanese, and ... True "Father" of Army Special Forces by Mike Guardia Published: May 25, 2010 Score: 0.16
20. Policing America's Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State (New Perspectives in Se Asian Studies) by Alfred W. McCoy Published: October 15, 2009 Score: 0.15
21. America Is in the Heart: A Personal History (Washington Paperbacks, Wp-68) by Carlos Bulosan and Carey McWilliams Published: January 1, 1973 Score: 0.13
22. Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq by Susan A. Brewer Published: June 1, 2009 Score: 0.13
23. Some Survived: An Eyewitness Account of the Bataan Death March and the Men Who Lived Through It by Manny Lawton and John Toland Published: January 3, 2004 Score: 0.11
24. Fighting for MacArthur: The Navy and Marine Corps' Desperate Defense of the Philippines by John Gordon Published: October 15, 2011 Score: 0.11
25. The Moro War: How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913 by James R. Arnold Published: August 2, 2011 Score: 0.11