Frustrated Ambition, Volume 61: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944

by Richard B. Meixsel

Vicente Podico Lim (1888-1944) was once his country's best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U.S. Army War College, Lim figured in every significant military development in the Philippines during his thirty years in uniform. Frustrated Ambition is the first in-depth biography of this forgotten figure, whose career paralleled the early-twentieth-century history of the Philippine military...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806159057
• ISBN13: 9780806159058
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"