Edwin Price Ramsey's and Stephen J. Riveles' Lieutenant Ramsey's War is a straightforward account of the struggle for personal survival of a young American Army officer in the Philippines during World War II and his accomplishments in the struggle to redeem American promises to liberate the Filipinos. It is very good on the military side of the struggle, somewhat superficial in describing its political aspects.
Ramsey suffered the bitter experience in his childhood of losing his father, a Kansas wildcatter who hung himself after economic and personal losses in the Depression. Ramsey, a difficult teenager, was sent to military school, the Oklahoma Military Academy where he learned some sense of discipline and the skills of h
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