| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805.P6 E85 C65 2015 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17899 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781784622619 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .P6
- Item number - E85 C65 2015
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Esmerian, Paul
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| Title Statement |
- Title - A free Frenchman under the Japanese
- Remainder of title - the war diary of Paul Esmérian, Manila, Philippines, 1941-1945
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - translated and edited by Robert Colquhoun
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [Leicestershire, UK]
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Troubador Publishing
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2015
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xx, 204 pages
- Other physical details - illustrations, maps
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - With index
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Prologue: Paul Esmérian -- Manila diary 1941-1945 -- Afterword -- Chronology -- Index of persons mentioned in the diary
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "Paul Esmérian's diary begins with his arrival in the Philippines from French Indochina in the summer of 1941. Just months later came the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, quickly followed by the invasion of the Philippines. Esmérian is an eloquent witness to the fall of Manila and its subsequent occupation. In January 1942, the Japanese set up an internment camp for allied civilians on the site of the University of Santo Tomas. For a year and a half Esmérian was able to live outside the camp but in June 1943, as a Gaullist, he was finally interned. He continued to keep a diary which forms a vivid record of life in Santo Tomas. He charts the changes in conditions as the Japanese grip tightened, culminating in the internees' dramatic liberation in February 1945 by a flying column of the US 1st Cavalry Division. Robert Colquhoun, the diary's translator and editor, was himself an internee in the same camp"
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Esmérian, Paul
- Dates associated with a name - 1912-.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, French.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Colquhoun, Robert
- Relator term - translator and editor
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