Red Revolution: Inside The Philippine Guerrilla Movement

by Gregg Jones

Traces the history and strategies of the New People's Army in the Philippines

360 pages, Hardcover

Published August 27, 1989

About the author

Gregg Jones is an award-winning author, historian, investigative journalist, and foreign correspondent. He has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a fellow at the Kluge Center and Black Mountain Institute, and a Botstiber Foundation grant recipient. His latest work is a biography of Ben Kuroki, the first Japanese American combat hero of World War II. MOST HONORABLE SON: A Forgotten Hero's Fight Against Fascism and Hate During World War II will be released by Kensington Publishing on July 23, 2024. Jones is also the author of three previous nonfiction books. HONOR IN THE DUST: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and The Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream (NAL/Penguin, 2012) was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. LAST STAND AT KHE SANH: The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam (Da Capo/Perseus, 2014) received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for Distinguished Nonfiction. His first book, RED REVOLUTION: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement (Westview, 1989), was praised by James Fallows in The Atlantic as a work of "prodigious, often brave reporting" and "an engrossing and highly informative book."

Reviews

[Feliks · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm loathe to give a negative review to a Pulitzer-prize winning author but this book was simply useless to me. I had very high hopes for it, too. I'm keen to learn all I can about the Phillipines in the 1960s and 70s; that's why I made the purchase. Difficult era to learn anything about. Martial law was declared there in 72! But what do I find when I open the book? Everything from the 1950s to the late 70s wrapped up and polished off in the first couple pages. Really? Come on, dude!

Update: looking around for a book to substitute in the place of this dud, I have found 'Cronies & Enemies: The Way Things Are Now in The Phillipines' but it doesn't have an ISBN #. So rather than go through the rigamarole of adding to the Goodreads database, I will just keep this one on my shelves. Still..disappointing.

[Markie Cu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hella informative...

[Tonipi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very, very interesting read.