| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 802 P6 L5 1997 |
| Status |
Available |
| Itemnotes |
with autograph/dedication from the editor |
| Barcode |
17887 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9789628709847 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 802 P6
- Item number - L5 1996
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Lichauco, Marcial P.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Dear Mother Putnam :
- Remainder of title - life & death in Manila during the Japanese occupation 1941-1945 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Marcial P. Lichauco ; edited by Cornelia Lichauco Fung and with a new foreword by Dr. Benito Legarda Jr.
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| Varying Form Of Title |
- Title proper/short title - Dear Mother Putnam :
- Remainder of title - life and death in Manila during the Japanese occupation 1941-1945
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [Hong Kong] :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - [Green Pagoda Press],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1997
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 309 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations
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| General Note |
- General note - "First publication Manila by the author in 1949"
- General note - [Written by a former Philippine Ambassador, this book recounts the experiences of a civilian who lived through the Japanese occupation of the Philippines during the Second World War.]
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Chronology -- "Dear Mother Putnam" -- Postscript -- Glossary -- Acknowledgements -- Further reading -- Photographs and maps -- Index
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - One of the first diaries published after the war detailing life in occupied Manila, the first edition of this book came out around 1949.
This remains one of the most important sources on Manila during the Japanese occupation; Lichauco was a practicing lawyer and keen observer of contemporary events. He had written a book on the American conquest of the Philippines and knew Roxas, Quezon and many other political leaders personally. He was married to an American woman (who was pregnant at the start of the war), which made his position in Manila more precarious.
Lichauco originally began the diary as a letter to his foster mother in the US (hence Mother Putnam), when he studied as a pensionado in Harvard. As the war took longer than expected, the letter eventually became a diary, some of which featured extensive entries. Lichauco wrote this under great personal risk, as the Japanese forbade the writing of diaries, particularly those critical of the Japanese. The diary begins on December 8, 1941 and ends on February 24, 1945, as the Battle of Manila was ending.
This book contains many significant observations on major events. This reprint adds background information on the author as well as photographs, which were not in the first edition. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Lichauco, Marcial Primitivo,
- Dates associated with a name - 1902-
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, Filipino.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Fung, Cornelia Lichauco
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