| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 C3 1957 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13718 |
| 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 - Cates, Tressa R.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Drainpipe diary
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Tressa R. Cates, R.N.
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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. - c1957.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 273 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 14 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account, based on an extensive diary kept by this civilian nurse who joined the U.S. Army. The book begins with the entry for January 5, 1942, the date the author was to have married her fiancée, but which instead marked the beginning of three long years of internment in the Santo Tomas Camp. She recalls her quest for travel and adventure which brought her to Asia and Shanghai; the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War forced her to move to the Philippines. Detailed account of the day-to-day life and concerns while in the camp, with Cates steadfastly writing despite the dangers it risked. The diary continues until liberation in February 1945, and life immediately thereafter, ending on June 24, 1945, when she and her fiancée finally wed. This book was reprinted in 1985 under the title "Infamous Santo Tomas: Authentic W.W. II Civilian Prisoner of War Camp Story." - 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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