| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
PZ 3 .M98977 Op |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13783 |
| 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 - Mydans, Shelley Smith
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Open city
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Shelley Smith Mydans
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| Edition Statement |
- Edition statement - 1st ed.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Doubleday, Doran and Co.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1945.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - x, 245 p. :
- Dimensions - 21 x 14 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Novel set in the Philippines during World War II, particularly the first days, and internment in Santo Tomas Internment Camp. The author was the wife of famed Life cameraman Carl Mydans, and was herself a noted journalist. The two were caught on assignment in the Philippines when the war broke out, saw the horrors of war unleashed in Manila, and were interned in Santo Tomas. But they were lucky that they both were repatriated on the exchange ship Gripsholm. While the book is fiction - "the characters are imaginary and many of the incidents are fictional" according to the author, "the background of this book is real." Provides an intimate portrait of Americans under Japanese rule without mentioning real names. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Manila in the beginning of the war
- Uncontrolled term - Santo Tomas Internment Camp
- Uncontrolled term - war fiction
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