The Massacre at Atåte, 2nd Edition

Torres’ story of courage, endurance and heroism in ’The Massacre at Atåte’

The Massacre at Atåte tells the story of the courageous people of the idyllic southern village of Malesso’ in Guam, who liberated themselves from the violent occupation of their village by Japanese forces during World War II. After scores of their relatives were killed in two massacres, a group of CHamoru men rose up in a littleknown place called Atåte, where they fought and massacred the Japanese to protect their families. The book includes an introduction by Guam’s former Representative to U.S. Congress Dr. Robert A. Underwood, and an afterword by Guam Historian Dr. Michael Lujan Bevacqua.

Born and raised in Malesso’, Jose M. Torres (1926-2015) graduated from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. He later joined a National Institutes of Health research team that was studying the island’s high incidence of two neurological diseases: Parkinsonism-dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease. In 1995, he started hosting ＂Classical Concert,＂ a twice weekly, two-hour program of classical music on Guam’s public radio.