| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 Q56 1977 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13694 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 533028000 (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 - Quinn, Michael A.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Love letters to Mike :
- Remainder of title - forty months as a Japanese prisoner of war, April 9, 1942 to September 17, 1945 : the diary of Colonel Michael A. Quinn /
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Vantage Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1977.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 331 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Col. Quinn was Chief of Transportation of the Bataan Force in 1942, when Bataan fell. This book is a chronicle of his experiences as a prisoner of war, and begins from the fall of Bataan. As a senior officer, Quinn was taken to Camp O'Donnell in a convoy of cars, conveying other ranking Luzon Force officers. He was moved to Tarlac after about a month, and then taken to Taiwan on one of the earliest prisoner of war ships, in 1942. He ended the war in a camp in Mukden, Manchuria. His diary documents the daily concerns, incidents with the Japanese, events, and thoughts of the officers as prisoners of war, writing in Philippine school notebooks concealed from the Japanese. Occasionally he comments on the defense campaign and officers involved in it. He began the diary as a letter to his wife, whose nickname was Mike. He was liberated by Russians in 1945, brought to Okinawa and then to Manila, from where he was repatriated to the US, where he was reunited with his wife. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Quinn, Michael A.,
- Dates associated with a name - 1895
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Taiwan
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- 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.
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