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The Battle of Marawi
- Publisher
- Pawikan Press
- Year
- 2020
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 243
- ISBN
- 9786219630108
- Availability
- In print
Still in print: the link goes to a shop that sells it.
About the book
The siege of Marawi as the people who fought it and lived through it remember it, by a journalist who has followed the military in Mindanao for thirty years.
Journalist Criselda Yabes tells the story of the battle for Marawi, fought from 23 May to 23 October 2017 between the Armed Forces of the Philippines and fighters aligned with ISIS. The book opens with the military raid to capture Isnilon Hapilon that set off the wider battle. It draws on hundreds of interviews Yabes did after the fighting with soldiers, aviators, marines and others affected by it. She wrote it with a research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.
Most chapters are stand-alone accounts of close-quarters fighting, mixed with sections on senior officers making plans and decisions, and some on Hapilon and the Maute group. Maps and diagrams show the chain of command and troop movements through the city. Battalion and company commanders appear only under nicknames; only generals are named.
It was Yabes's 10th book and the first title of Pawikan Press, a Davao City imprint for books on Mindanao and Palawan. A second edition followed in 2021. A Canadian Army Journal reviewer found it a good grounding for general readers, though historians would need other sources for finer detail.
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