| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 W3 1959 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13697 |
| 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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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .J3 W3 1959
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Wallace, Walter
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Escape from hell :
- Remainder of title - the Sandakan story /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Walter Wallace
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - London :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Robert Hale Ltd.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1958.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 176 p.
- Dimensions - 23 x 14 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - The author was an Australian soldier captured at Singapore and sent as a prisoner of war to Borneo in 1942. He escaped in 1943 and joined guerrilla forces in the Philippines. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of an Australian soldier who was captured in Singapore and sent by the Japanese to Sandakan, North Borneo, for forced labor to build an airfield. He and a few others (among them Rex Blow; see Sheila Ross' book) managed to escape in 1943,and made their way to Tawi-Tawi, where they were aided by the guerrillas of Sulu. They later moved on to Mindanao where they joined Col. Fertig's 10th Military District. - 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 - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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