Episode 371-Interview w/ Thomas McKenna about his book Moro Warrior

The History of WWII Podcast

Ray Harris Jr

Education, History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 4 June 2022

⏱️ 65 minutes

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MORO WARRIOR tells the remarkable true story of the Philippine Muslim (Moro) resistance fighters of World War II—the most successful and least-known guerrillas of the Pacific Theater. It is the story of Mohammad Adil, a sword-wielding warrior chieftain commissioned as a junior officer in Douglas MacArthur’s guerrilla army while still a teenager. Confident in his secret protective powers learned from a Sufi master, Adil roamed the highland rainforests with a price on his head, attacking Japanese outposts, surviving ambushes, and gaining a reputation as a man who could not be killed. www.morowarrior.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and thank you for listening to The History of World War II podcast.
0:14.0	Episode 371, interview with Thomas McKenna about his book, Moro Warrior.
0:21.0	Thomas McKenna is an anthropologist who has lived and worked for years with Moro communities
0:26.7	in the Philippines and has spent decades writing and conducting research on their culture
0:31.9	and history.
0:32.9	He has presented his work on the Moros to Oxford University, the U.S. State Department,
0:38.1	the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
0:42.4	Studies.
0:43.4	He is the author of Muslim Writers and Rebels and a number of other published works.
0:48.4	Mr. McKenna, thank you for being with us today.
0:51.4	I'm very happy to be here.
0:53.2	So as you and I were talking a couple of minutes before we started recording, I was telling
0:57.7	you that one of the reasons I'm very happy to have you on the show is because I think
1:02.3	it was at the beginning of this calendar year where I was covering the Pacific theater.
1:07.8	I had the Japanese command.
1:09.3	They took over the Philippines.
1:11.1	They took over some other possessions as well.
1:14.0	But I just kind of stopped right there.
1:16.8	And again, one of the things that I really liked about your book, even though it's kind
1:20.2	of zoomed in, it's kind of localized.
1:22.4	It's you keep the story of Mindenow and its resistance going, which is why I wanted
1:27.6	to bring you on, which of course is a very long-winded way of saying that this book is about
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