Philippine War Diary, 1939-1945.

By Stephen M. Mellnik

Manila, Bataan, Corregidor, Mindanao - these fateful names from the 2nd WW will resound forever in American history. All the harrowing events in the Philippine area - the Japanese invasion, the Death... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0442212585
• ISBN13: 9780442212582
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Stephen Mellnik deserves to be TAUGHT, not read

Classes in Mellnik should be formed. University departments of history, philosophy and literature should relax their definitions and agree that reality exceeds literature and proper conduct exceeds both.After reading Sides' Ghost Soldiers, Mellnik's Philippine Diary corroborates the long, drawn-out horror of my dad's buddies during World War II. A minor flaw in Mellnik's writing style, the overuse of gratuitous exclamation marks in the first few chapters, suffered burial the way so many young men did and some still alive: the rest of the book is full of calamitous exclamation while being delivered in a calm, reflective tone.Mellnik's capacity to remember so many details and present them without emotion exceeds that of the most skilled fiction writer to impress upon one his created world: reality outstrips fiction and needs no ornament, no elaboration. Reading this book, one's eyes continually widen.