| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 811.5 .D64 D67 1946 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17960 |
| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 811.5 .D64
- Item number - D67 1946
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Dos Passos, John
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Tour of duty /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - John Dos Passos
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Cambridge, Massachusetts :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - The Riverside Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1946
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 336 pages:
- Other physical details - illustrations
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Pt. 1. The atolls and the ships: The islands -- Way station -- The American Marianas -- Floating base -- Pt. 2. Theatre of war: The road to Manila -- Headquarters at San Miguel -- The fighting in the city -- Conversations in Santo Tomas -- The oldtime Americans -- Pt. 3. In the year of our defeat: Land of the Fragebogen -- The Vienna frontier -- Nuremberg Diary -- Retreat from Europe -- Two wrongs don't...
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "Through the eyes of the man who is surely America's most sensitive reporter, you see Americans in action against the exotic background of the wide, wide world at war. you will see shy Iowa farmers turned military governors, car salesmen turning their arts upon almond-eyed eight-year-olds who stumble into the path of war, a traffic cop turned guerrilla general with all the genius of a Stonewall Jackson. It is a book that poses in terms of incident and human anecdote the central problem that we face today--how to carry over into the post-war world the miracle of our war-time effort and our war-time virtue."
- Summary, etc. - This nonfiction work compiles the author's extensive reportage in the Pacific theatre of World War II and postwar Europe. During the war, Dos Passos visits and studies conditions in Hawaii, the Marshall Islands, the Marianas, the Caroline Islands, the Philippines, New Caledonia, New Guinea and Australia. Part two contains five chapters on the war in the Philippines. - Roderick Hall
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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 - Pacific area
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