Rampage

Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manilaby James M. Scott, W. W. Norton Company, 2019. 

Tomoyukia Yamashita

Yamashita defeated British in Malaya and Singapore giving him the name: Tiger of Malaya. When the Japanese took Singapore, they perpetrated a massacre against those residents who were ethnic Chinese: the Sook Ching Massacre.

Japanese Invasion of the Philippines (1941)

Japan invaded Philippines in December 1941. FDR ordered MacArthur to evacuate Corregidor. The Japanese locked up thousand of Australian, British, Americans and Filipinos at the University of Santo Tomas, the Blibid City jail, camps at Los Baños and Cabanatuan.

Beriberi, pellagra

Allied Military Retaking the Philippines

The author describes General Douglass McArthur retook the Philippines from the Japanese, after having been absent for three years.

Rape of Manila (February 1945)

Yamashita was given command of Philippines in September 1944. Admiral Iwabuchi ordered the destruction of Manila. Colonel Noguchi set fire to Manila. The Japanese military anso blew up many buildings with explosives. in particualar, Japanese exploded Manila Cathedral.  Japanese slaughtered people at Red Cross Emergency Hospital in February 1945, killing 50 people. Japanese military killed many Filipino civilians of Manila with bullets, swords and bayonets.

War Crimes Trial

The last part of the book is a description of the war crimes trial of the commanding General, Tomoyuki Yamashita. General Yamashita surrendered. Was tried for war crimes. General Tomoyuki Yamashita claimed not to know what his subordinates were doing.