Summary Part of Tragedies and Disasters Week Our guest today is James M Scott a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard and author of Rampage, which was named one of the Best Books of 2018 by the editors at Amazon, Kirkus and Military Times and was chosen as a finalist for the prestigious Gilder Lehrman Prize for Military History by the New York Historical Society. American General Douglas MacArthur, driven from the Philippines under the cover of darkness at the beginning of the war, famously vowed to return. Today, James will explain that return and the unfortunate disaster that befell the people of Manila. The twenty-nine day battle to retake Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese soldiers and marines that terrorized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women raped, and their husbands and children murdered. An estimated 100,000 civilians were slain in a massacre as heinous as "The Rape of Nanking."

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