Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History

Title: Massacre in the Clouds: An American Atrocity and the Erasure of History Author: Kim A Wagner ISBN: 9781541701496 Publisher: PublicAffairs Published: 2024 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Asian History 1611427 Publisher Description: In this "forensic, unflinching, devastating work of historical recovery" (Sathnam Sanghera), Bud Dajo--an American atrocity bigger than Wounded Knee or My Lai, yet today largely forgotten--is revealed, thanks to the rediscovery of a single photograph. In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. So