Most of what is written in Philippine history books about Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo, the Katipunan, the Philippine Revolution and the Filipino-American war were based on the MEMOIRS of Gen. Alvarez, Gen Ricarte and Mabini. How reliable are these memoirs?
"Memoirs written several years ago after the facts, often at the end of the author's career, have introduced innumerable errors into history. It must be made a rule to treat memoirs with special distrust, as second-hand documents, in spite of their appearance of being contemporary testimony."
-Prof. Charles-Victor Langlois [1863-1929]
[Ian-James R. Andres]