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Moro Warrior
A Philippine Chieftain, an American Schoolmaster, and the Untold Story of the Most Remarkable Resistance Fighters of World War II in the Pacific
- Publisher
- Armin Lear Press
- Year
- 2022
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781956450095
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
The Moro guerrillas of Cotabato and Lanao in the Second World War, led by Edward Kuder’s foster son Mohammad Adil and the American schoolteacher himself, pieced together from their papers and the memories of those who fought.
This narrative history tells of the Moro resistance to the Japanese occupation of Mindanao from 1942 to 1945. At its centre are Mohammad Adil, a Moro guerrilla leader, and his foster father Edward Kuder, an American schoolteacher and colonial official who wrote about the Moro fighters after the war.
Thomas M. McKenna is an anthropologist who lived and worked in Moro communities in Mindanao. He met Adil near Cotabato City in 1986 and began his research then. The book rests largely on Adil's memories, checked against written sources, including documents Adil made in his guerrilla camps. McKenna says no events were invented, though he filled in some details.
The story also reaches forward to Adil's part in resisting the Marcos government's offensive in the early 1970s. The book was published in the United States and by Ateneo de Manila University Press in the Philippines.
From asianreviewofbooks.com, positivelyfilipino.squarespace.com, kalw.org.
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