American Guerrilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines

by Roger Hilsman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781574886917
Publisher:	Potomac Books
Publication date:	04/01/2005
Series:	Memories of War
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	342
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Roger Hilsman is a professor emeritus of government and international politics at Columbia. He lives in Lyme, Connecticut.

Editorial Reviews

An exciting, human-scale memoir of WWII derring-do . . . with a pointed coda on counterinsurgency.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Enthralling . . . concludes with some useful reflections on the conditions required for guerrilla warfare to be effective.”

“A magnificent piece of work . . . Hilsman’s experience and observations should be studied closely.”

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