| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
DS 686.2 .C36 C85 2014 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17958 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9789715390521 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - DS 686.2 .C36
- Item number - C85 2014
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Cuizon, Erma M.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Twilight in Misamis :
- Remainder of title - Josefa Borromeo Capistrano's guerrilla days /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Erma M. Cuizon
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Cebu City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - University of San Carlos Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2014
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - vi, 88 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations
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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 - Includes bibliography
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Life at peace -- Signs of woes -- Time in the hills -- Bombing at Panquil Bay -- The invasion -- Early safehouses -- Young guerrillas -- A hardy race -- Women's Auxiliary Service -- Campaign for hope -- Sunset in Misamis -- Skirmishes -- Redemption -- A new day
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "This book is about a woman from Cebu who in 1942 organized women in Misamis, and later in other provinces in Mindanao, to contribute to the act of resistance in the country during World War II. A Cebuana married to a Misamisnon, Josefina Borromeo Capistrano led women who were willing to extend help to the guerrilla organization in the south of the Philippines. The organization, which started with less than ten women, was officially attached to the United States Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE) and was called Women's Auxiliary Service, or WAS. The women who helped the soldiers, almost like in housekeeping for big family, such as corn-grinding, cooking of what food they could solicit, washing clothes for them, soliciting medicines for the wounded, acting as guerrilla spies and giving hope to the lonely fighters of the country."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Capistrano, Josefa Borromeo,
- Dates associated with a name - 1911-2004.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Women
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Women
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
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