BOOKS
Kobe house P.O.W. #13 /

Publisher: Old Guard Press,


Title Details
  • Kobe house P.O.W. #13 /
Publishers
  • Bristol, United Kingdom :Old Guard Press, c2013.
Descriptions
  • 222 pages :illustrations ;23 cm.
Isbn
    9781848612280
Language
    English
Subjects
  • Locke, Arthur J.
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
  • World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese
Material Type
  • BK
  • Book
Location RHC
Item Call Number D 805 .P6 L63 2013
Copynumber 1
Status Item withdrawn
Barcode 18025
International Standard Book Number
  • International Standard Book Number - 9781848612280
Library Of Congress Call Number
  • Classification number - D 805 .P6
  • Item number - L63 2013
Main Entry
  • Personal name - Locke, Arthur J.
Title Statement
  • Title - Kobe house P.O.W. #13 /
  • Statement of responsibility, etc - A.J. Locke
Edition Statement
  • Edition statement - First commercial edition.
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint)
  • Place of publication, distribution, etc - Bristol, United Kingdom :
  • Name of publisher, distributor, etc - Old Guard Press,
  • Date of publication, distribution, etc - c2013.
Physical Description
  • Extent - 222 pages :
  • Other physical details - illustrations ;
  • Dimensions - 23 cm.
General Note
  • General note - Kobe House P.O.W. #13 was first published in a limited private edition in 1998.
Formatted Contents Note
  • Formatted contents note - Clark Field -- The First Two Weeks -- Bataan -- Quinauan Point -- Interlude -- Guests of the Emperor -- The Bataan Death March -- The Schoolhouse -- Better than walking, but not much -- Camp O'Donnell -- Back to Bataan -- Bilibid Prison -- On the High Seas -- Kobe House -- Settling In -- Kyotsuki! -- Heigh-Ho, Heigh-Ho, and Off to Work We Go -- And More Work -- On the Inside -- Merry Christmas -- A New Year -- My Fellow Americans -- And Our Guards -- POW Coolies -- Monotonous Misery -- I've been working on the railroad -- Spring, 1943 -- New Arrivals -- The Mad Doctor -- The Australians -- 1943 -- Den of Thieves -- A New Job -- Tempus Fugit--Very Slowly -- Another New Year -- War Comes to Kobe -- Sweating it Out -- We Lose Our Home -- Wakinohama -- All Over But The Shouting -- Farewell to Kobe City -- Homeward Bound -- Random Thoughts -- Fifty Years Later
Summary, Etc.
  • Summary, etc - "1st Sergeant Arthur "Bud" Locke was based at Clark Field in the Philippines, as part of the USAAF's Far East Air Service Command, in 1941. He was taken prisoner with many others in the Japanese invasion of the Philippines, experienced the Bataan Death March, and was trans-ported to a POW work-camp in Kobe, Japan, from which he was liberated in at the end of the war. This is the story of his war.".
Language Note
  • Language note - English
Subject Personal Name
  • Personal name - Locke, Arthur J.
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 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese