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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 811.5 M33 1996 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17904 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 811.5
- Item number - M33 1996
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Madison, Ruth Hudson Mladinich
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| Title Statement |
- Title - In the rays of the rising sun /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Ruth Hudson Mladinich Madison ; introduction by Michael G. Corenthal ; memorial by David Hoyt Pfleiderer
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l.] :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - [Norma and Ted Froemming],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1996.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - ix, 171 pages
- Other physical details - illustrations
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Biography -- Introduction -- Memorial -- Sunrise -- Inside the prison walls -- Adjustments -- Organization -- Food -- Business -- Sanitation and health -- Education -- Entertainment -- Camp characters -- Homes -- Discipline and police -- Communication -- Religion -- Camp Blue -- Rumors -- War -- Propaganda -- Reorganization -- Life and death in Manila -- Sunset -- Ship ahoy!
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "War is hell and being a prisoner of war may be even more hellish when you're at the mercy of a Japanese conqueror whose quest for power often overrules most rational decision making. The year was 1942, and Ruth Mladinich was living in Manila as the wife of a corporate executive whose company's products, such as Fleischmann's Yeast, were standard household inventory of that era. Executives of large American firms had at their disposal chauffeurs, household servanats and an opulence undreamed of in today's overpriced marketplace. Cocktails, country clubs and chauffeured Cadillacs were normal to western households in pre-war Manila, but that elegance would end in early '42 with the dropping of Japanese bombs, followed by the invasion and capture of the Philippines..."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Madison, Ruth Hudson Mladinich
- Dates associated with a name - 1894-1991.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Concentration camps
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Santo Tomás Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Corenthal, Michael G.
- Personal name - Pfleiderer, David Hoyt
- Relator term - Reverend
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