| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 V35 1984 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13816 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 882081667 (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 - Valentine, Douglas
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Hotel Tacloban
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Douglas Valentine
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Westport, CT :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Lawrence Hill & Co.,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1984.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xvi, 175 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 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. - Supposedly a true story of an American soldier who served with MacArthur's forces in the South Pacific, was captured by the Japanese and kept in a prison camp in Leyte along with several Australian prisoners of war. Details inhuman treatment not only by the Japanese, but also among the prisoners themselves. Douglas Valentine told his story to his son, Douglas Valentine, Jr., who wrote the book, essentially as he heard it and written from his father's perspective. The author claims that the army expunged the prison camp's records due to military secrecy, but surviving veterans and locals do not confirm the existence of such a camp at all. It is thus hard to determine how much of this book is fact and how much is fiction. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Valentine, Douglas.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Tacloban (Concentration camp).
- 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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