(Part 2) Best phillippines history books according to redditors
We found 52 Reddit comments discussing the best phillippines history books. We ranked the 23 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
If you're into books, check out
[The Battle of Leyte Gulf by Edwin P Hoyt] (http://www.amazon.com/Battle-Leyte-Gulf-Edwin-Hoyt/dp/0515092304), has some great in depth play by play of battles like Surigao Strait and the Battle off Samar.
[Neptune's Inferno by James Hornfischer] (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/neptunes-inferno-james-d-hornfischer/1101087917) deals with the night actions of Guadalcanal in the same play-by-play way as Hoyt's book, and details just how brutal the slugfests were between battleships and cruisers.
[The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors by Hornfischer] (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/last-stand-of-the-tin-can-sailors-james-d-hornfischer/1100619200) is a play by play book about the goddamn heroic actions of Task Force 34 and how three destroyers and like ten fighters fought off the biggest battleship ever made and a fleet of two others, eight cruisers and like five destroyers.
If you like reference books about technical schematics and details check out
Jane's Fighting Ships of World War One and [World War Two] (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/janes-fighting-ships-of-world-war-ii-francis-e-mccurtie/1000217302). These two are armor readouts and gun mountings as they knew them when the books were written. For example, in 1942 the US thought the Yamato had 16'' guns and the sister ship to Nagato was called Mutu (instead of Mutsu) and that's shown in the books
This comment recommends Victor Lieberman's Strange Parallels
I've read some of it myself and would definitely recommend it
Edit: paging /u/lukeweiss who answered the original.
Also, I've noticed that Volume II discusses spice trade and it's relevance to the Majapahit Empire.
>Majapahit's wealth let it equip those "expeditionary forces" that a contemporary account boasted "annihilated altogether" "commandment-breakers" in the seas beyond Java, while its rice surplus let it supply food-deficit ports around the archipelago, especially in the east, where it sought to access spices.
It mentions spices in passing elsewhere too, but the main focus of the book isn't on the spice trade.
Ancient Southeast Asia discusses the spice trade as well, but it's in the context of archaeological evidence and political development. Here, too, the spice trade isn't the main focus.
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One of the most interesting parts of Marcos downfall was that of Dovie Beams, an American actress whom he had an affair with. Tapes leaked of Marcos receiving oral sex from Dovie Beams and those tapes were broadcast on university campuses across the Philippines (I read about in the book The Marcos Dynasty by Sterling Seagrave; https://www.amazon.com/Marcos-Dynasty-Sterling-Seagrave/dp/0060158158/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=).