| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 802 .P6 P66 2012 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17924 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9780533164479 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 802 .P6
- Item number - P66 2012
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Poness, Ralph C.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - P.O.W. :
- Remainder of title - a sailor's story /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ralph C. Poness ; edited by Ralph J. Poness
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - First edition.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York, N.Y. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Vantage Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2012.
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| Physical Description |
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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 bibliography
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - ""When Japan unleashed its firestorm on Pearl Harbor, surprise, anger, and fear beyond words gripped the nation. Reflecting on this, I realize how wrong so many people were, including enlisted men like me and those in power." In this historical, political, analytical, and deeply personal story of a disgracefully blundering hierarchy, inadequate weaponry, lack of even rudimentary supplies, and official incompetence and miscalculation at every turn, Poness recounts the events that led up to being taken as a prisoner of the Japanese and of his harrowing years as a P.O.W..."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Poness, Ralph C.
- Fuller form of name - (Ralph Carlo)
- Dates associated with a name - 1915-.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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 - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Poness, Ralph J.
- Relator term - editor
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