Matthew Westfall

Broschiertes Buch

The Devil's Causeway

The True Story of America's First Prisoners of War in the Philippines, and the Heroic Expedition Sent to Their Rescue

Beschreibung

The epic, forgotten story of a tragic military rescue mission as the Spanish-American War in the Philippines became a violent guerilla war between the United States and native Filipinos, and the Heart of Darkness story of American POWs in an unforgiving, foreign land.

Autor

Matthew Westfall is a writer, urbanist, and award-winning documentary filmmaker, whose films have featured narrators such as Malcolm McDowell, Willem Dafoe, and F. Murray Abraham, and have been broadcast worldwide. He has devoted much of his professional career to tackling poverty in the developing world. Based in Asia for nearly three decades, his work as a development banker addresses some of the most intractable issues in our increasingly urban world: megacities, slums, and managing the urban environment. For his documentary On Borrowed Land, executive produced by Oliver Stone and funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Matthew received the prestigious Paul Davidoff National Award for Advocacy Planning from the American Planning Association. Born in New York City and raised in Brookline, Massachusetts, Westfall currently resides in the Philippines with his family. He spends his free time reading, writing, and collecting as a means to explore the fascinating history of his adopted country. The Devil's Causeway is his first work of narrative nonfiction. Visit matthewwestfall.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lyons Press
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 701g
• ISBN-13: 9780762788453
• ISBN-10: 0762788453
• Artikelnr.: 56712178