| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .A2 S64 2012 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18122 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781588343550 (hardbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .A2
- Item number - S64 2012
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
- Classification number - 940.54/72091823
- Edition number - 23
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Smith, Craig B.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Counting the Days :
- Remainder of title - POWs, Internees, and Stragglers of World War II in the Pacific /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Craig B. Smith.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Washington, DC :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Smithsonian Books,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - [2012]
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xxv, 260 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations ;
- Dimensions - 24 cm
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
- Media type term - unmediated
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| Carrier Type |
- Carrier type term - volume
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-242) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - December 1941 -- Origins -- Davao Gold Mine -- Insular patrol -- Yokohama Bank -- Argentina Maru -- The dentist's house -- Zentsuji -- Relocation -- American sojourn -- Across the Gulf of Davao -- Osaka -- Houses in the jungle -- A riot and a marriage -- Happy life blues cabaret -- Hirohata -- The battle for Guam -- MacArthur returns -- Free at last -- Prisoner of war number 1 -- Home from Manzanar -- Stragglers: prisoners of conscience -- Picking up the pieces -- Epilogue: prisoners today.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "During the course of World War II, the deadliest conflict in human history, thousands of civilians and military personnel were captured as prisoners of war in what the Japanese called the "Pacific War." Counting the Days recounts the harrowing true stories and miraculous survival of six remarkably determined and resourceful individuals, whose spirit of resilience and courage kept them alive throughout the arduous trials of their imprisonment."
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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 - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Form subdivision - Personal narratives.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- Form subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- Form subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Pacific Area.
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