| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .P6 E85 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14038 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 2726600506 (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - fre
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Esmerian, Paul,
- Dates associated with a name - 1912-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Journal d'Extreme-Orient :
- Remainder of title - 1940-1945 /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Paul Esmerian
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Paris :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Editions Entente
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1980
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 306 p. :
- Dimensions - 21 x 12 cm
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| General Note |
- General note - Ce journal est marqué par une grande spontanéité ... Ce diptyque sur l'envers de la façade de la guerre du Pacifique mérite l'attention et l'intérêt des historiens et des psychosociologues du comportement carcéral
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - The Japanese occupation of the Philippines and internment in Santo Tomas from a different perspective. Esmerian was a French national who was a young bank employee in Saigon until he was called to military service in 1939. He fought in the little-known Thai-French Indochina War of 1940, winning the Croix the Guerre for courage under fire. When the Japanese took Saigon in mid-1941, he was placed on the ship Marechal Foch which arrived in Mania just prior to the outbreak of war. Esmerian was considered an enemy alien by the Japanese, since he remained loyal to the French resistance government of Charles de Gaulle rather than to the Vichy government under Germany. He was thus interned in Santo Tomas - one of only seven Frenchmen in the camp. This memoir, written in French, provides a perspective of the war and Santo Tomas that is different from the more numerous American memoirs. "War years in the Philippines, 1941-1945" is a partial English translation of the original French memoir, and makes available to non-French readers this important account. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Esmerian, Paul,
- Dates associated with a name - 1912
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - France
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Thai-Indochinese Conflict, 1940-1941
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, French.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, French.
- 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 - Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).
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