| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 K43 1985 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13671 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Kerr, E. Bartlett
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Surrender and survival :
- Remainder of title - the experience of American POW's in the Pacific, 1941-1945 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - E. Bartlett Kerr
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - William Morrow and Co.
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1985
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 356 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - An excellent overview history of American prisoners of war in the war against Japan, with much on the Philippines: Bataan and Corregidor, the Death March, prison camps, forced labor. Kerr goes beyond the Philippines and includes American POWs in Guam, Wake, China, Java and elsewhere, detailing camps in the various areas, the hell ships to Japan, slave labor camps in Japan and mainland Asia. Kerr also provides an epilogue which discusses the aftermath of the prison camp experience, as well as a convenient chronology. The author was a West Point graduate who served in the Korean War; his father had served in the Philippines and was on board the infamous Oryoku Maru prison ship; he did not survive the other hell ship which transported the survivors to Japan. This book is the author's attempt to document his father's ordeals as well as those of the other POWs who did not survive. - 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 - Pacific area.
- 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 - Atrocities.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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