The Massacre at Atåte tells the story of the courageous people of the idyllic southern village of Malesso’, 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 little-known place called Atåte, where they fought and massacred the Japanese to protect their families. The book includes an introduction by Robert A. Underwood and an afterword by Michael Lujan Bevacqua.

• Author(s): Jose M. Torres
• Publisher: University of Guam Press (2015)
• Imprint: MARC Publications
• ISBN-13: 978-1-935198-14-7 
• Paperback: 142 pages
• Price: $18 

Born and raised in Malesso’, Jose M. Torres graduated from St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. He later joined the National Institutes of Health research team that was studying the island’s high incidences of two neurological diseases -- Parkinsonism-dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or Lou Gehrig’s disease. In 1995, he started hosting “Classical Concert,” the twice weekly, two-hour program of “good music” on Guam’s public radio, a program that continues to this day. Distributed by the Richard F. Taitano Micronesia Area Research Center/ MARC Monograph Series No. 5

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