| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 811.5 H476 2014 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18715 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781490968698 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 811.5
- Item number - H476 2014
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Herman, Harry E.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - My father's plight with the American eagle, 1880-1954 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Harry E. Herman
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [Lexington, Kentucky] :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - [s.n.],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2014
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 320 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "The engaging saga of Henry Herman Sr., a young and intrepid Austrian-American in 1898, who sought adventure in Southeast Asia. The story is doubly significant as the personal account of one of those brave pioneers, and as a history of the early American presence inn the Philippines. Henry Herman Sr., a veteran of the bloody Philippine-American War, was hardly 21 years old in 1901 when he was honorably discharged in Manila. The army private, almost penniless as a civilian but gifted with the right stuff, became overnight an empire builder in the Philippines... There was a reversal of fortune for Henry Herman Sr. in 1935 when the Philippines became a Commonwealth. During the Pacific War in Manila (1941-1945), Henry Sr. was forced to sell electrical supplies to the Japanese military under extreme duress. Consequently, he was charged with collaboration with the Japanese enemy right after the war...
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Herman, Henry,
- Dates associated with a name - 1880-1954
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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 - Personal narratives, Austrian
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