| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 783 .H27 2000 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13614 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 738852732 (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 783 .H27 2000
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Harmuth, Robert K.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Battlin' bastards and pigboats
- Remainder of title - the POW and submarine interface during WWII
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Robert K. Harmuth
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Xlibris Corp.],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2000.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 393 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 23 x 15 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Researched account of the defense of the Philippines in 1941-1942 and the ordeals of the American prisoners of war, through the Death March, various prison camps, hell ships and forced labor. Gives (somewhat as an afterthought) the role of US submarines in speeding up the US victory and freeing the POWs, although a few unmarked prison ships were inadvertently sunk by submarines. The author, a retired US Navy officer, chanced upon two veterans of Bataan and was inspired to write this book, concluding that the US did abandon the defenders of the Philippines and that "God was on our side as was uncannily obvious at turning points in the war." - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Submarine.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Naval operations, American.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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