History of the armed forces of the Filipino people, volume one / Cesar P. Pobre.

Includes bibliographic references and index.

"History of the Armed Forces of the Filipino People recounts the long undaunted struggle of the Filipinos to be free from the revolts sporadically staged against Spanich colonial rule and the glorious revolution of 1896 that was the crowning glory of their freedom movement, through the Philippine-American War, the defense against Japan in World War II, the anti-Japanese guerilla warfare and, finally, to the liberation of the country from the Japanese forces.

This is the story of how a people with hardly any military preparation fought to unshackle themselves from the Spanish yoke. It relates how they made the Americans pay dearly for virtually every inch of ground they yielded, not because they were well-armed, well-fed and well-trained, for they never were, but because of their effective common sense tactics and strategy, and their unflinching willingness to die for the country. "