| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 T52 1996 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
13817 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 896723623 (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 .P6 T52 1996
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Thompson, Dorothy Davis
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Road back :
- Remainder of title - a pacific POW's liberation story /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Dorothy Davis Thompson ; foreword by Charles W. Johnson
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Lubbock, TX :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Texas Tech University Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1996.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - viii, 160 p. :
- Other physical details - ill., maps ;
- Dimensions - 24 x 16 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - The author, a nurse, was interned in Santo Tomás with her family where she established a camp hospital but was released due to illness. Thompson was determined to see her family reunited and returned to Santo Tomás for the liberation of the camp. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of an American woman, born and raised in Shanghai. Her father was a businessman in China, while her mother was the granddaughter of missionaries there. She studied nursing in the US, and while there her parents and sister evacuated China for the Philippines due to the war between China and Japan. Dorothy rejoined her parents in Manila, but the three got caught by the war and were interned in Santo Tomas. Dorothy tended to the sick in the camp, helping to establish a hospital. She herself became ill, and was repatriated to the US. Once well, she joined the Army Nurse Corps and joined the liberating American forces in Leyte, anxious to return to Manila and rejoin her parents. She made it back to Manila, and was reunited with her family. Her parents remained in Manila; Dorothy also stayed on to tend the wounded and the sick; was stationed at the general hospital in a racetrack, and then the hospital at Fort McKinley. While in the Philippines, she met an American officer and eventually married him. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Thompson, Dorothy Davis.
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| Subject Corporate Name |
- Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element - United States. Army
- General subdivision - Biography.
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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 - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Medical care
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- 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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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Johnson, Charles W.
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