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

First published August 15, 1989

About the author

Gregg Jones is an award-winning historian and nonfiction author and a seven-time Marine Corps Marathon finisher. He has been a faculty member at Greenhill School in Addison, Texas, since 2018. In his previous career as an investigative journalist and foreign correspondent, Jones was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. He has been a fellow at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress and the Black Mountain Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He has also been a Botstiber Foundation grant recipient. His latest work is MOST HONORABLE SON, a 2024 biography of Ben Kuroki, the first Japanese American combat hero of World War II. Jones is also the author of HONOR IN THE DUST: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and The Rise and Fall of America's Imperial Dream (NAL/Penguin, 2012), 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), which received the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for Distinguished Nonfiction; and RED REVOLUTION: Inside the Philippine Guerrilla Movement (Westview, 1989), praised by 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.