Book Announcement: PACIFIC RAMPART
Oct 26, 2020 21:07:07 GMT 8
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Post by batteryboy on Oct 26, 2020 21:07:07 GMT 8
Announcing the Availability of:
Pacific Rampart, A History of Corregidor and the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
by Glen Williford
Pacific Rampart, A History of Corregidor and the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays
by Glen Williford
After many years of research, a major new work has been completed on the history of the American Harbor Defenses in the Philippines. This work is by far the most extensive ever attempted on the subject. It is simultaneously a unit history, a complete technical accounting of the fortification elements, and the combat history of 1941-42 and 1945. I hesitate to use the term “definitive”, but it covers the subject of the harbor defenses more thoroughly than any previous work.
The work is a hardcover book of an 8.5 x 11-inch format. It has 465 pages and is profusely illustrated with over 340 images and dozens of maps and plans. It covers these defenses from their inception right after the American occupation of the Philippines in 1898 through the end of combat in 1945. A good balance is struck between the strategic and tactical, and the building of the defenses and aspects of garrison life as well as the subsequent siege and conquest by the Japanese. It should be of interest to any student of American fortifications and well as those who are interested in the early Second World War Pacific campaigns, and even those who have had the opportunity to visit Corregidor and want to know more about why these defenses were built.
The book is being published with a suggested retail price of $49.95. It will soon be available with online booksellers. However, for those in the U.S., the author will sell domestic postpaid, signed copies for $45.
$45 (including U.S. domestic media mail postage) per author-signed copy.
Purchase by sending a check and mailing address to: Glen Williford, 634 Silver Dawn Ct., Zionsville, IN 46077. Books are available now. For those wishing to pay with PayPal, please contact the author at glen1430@att.net for transfer account details.