| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 B65 2003 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13710 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 1589801679 (softbound)
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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 .P6 B65 2003
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Bollich, James
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Bataan death march :
- Remainder of title - a soldier's story /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by James Bollich ; foreword by Jesse Knowles
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Gretna, LA :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Pelican Pub.
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2003
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 222 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps
- Dimensions - 22 x 14 cm
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| General Note |
- General note - A defender of the Philippines, and captured when America surrendered the Bataan peninsula, James Bollich survived 3½ years' imprisonment by the Japanese. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account by an American college student who enlisted in reaction to the German expansion in Europe. He joined the US Army Air Corps, was assigned to the 27th Bomb Group and sent to the Philippines two weeks before the start of the war. The group's planes did not arrive and the group was sent to Bataan to fight as infantry. He details conditions during the Bataan campaign, the surrender, the Death March, Camp O'Donnell, Cabanatuan, work details, prison ship to Korea and thence to Manchuria, where he was liberated (by Russians) when the war ended. He quotes from his POW diary in one chapter (The book was originally published in 1993 as "A Soldier's Journal"). - 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 - Death marches
- Geographic subdivision - Bataan.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, American.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - 27th Bombardment Group
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - Death March
- Uncontrolled term - hell ships
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Knowles, Jesse
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