This is a "Friends and Family" Version, as it contains more content from my father's letters home than the MacArthur Memorial Version. .

When I was a kid and asked my father what he did during the war, and whether he'd killed any Japanese, his response was a dry, yet authoritative "Well, I threw my typewriter at them..." His was a desk job, just a minor function within the Combined Operations Intelligence Centre of MacArthur's G.H.Q., preparing communiques, sitreps, Special Air Reports, Reports of Enemy Losses and signal traffic to and from Washington. He had joined C.O.I.C. in Brisbane, Australia, and stayed with them through New Guinea and into the Philippines, finishing in Manila. Hence the many spippets sprinkled across the book from his correspondence home, extracted from a collection of letters found in his footlocker. "Dad, if I'd only known then what I know now!" MANILA 1945 - AFTERMATH - is a coffee-table book of images of Manila collected from numerous sources, museums and private collectors, together with essays by the author. Historian Peter C. Parsons provides a preface on the myth and fact of the Battle of Manila. The book is rounded off by pre-eminent Filipino Historian Prof. Dr. Ricardo T. Jose's essay on Japanese Accounts of the battle. The Author is the Webmaster of the Battle of Manila site at http://battleofmanila.org