| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 P6 L8 1975 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14057 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 850521661 (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 - Lucas, Celia
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Prisoners of Santo Tomas
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Celia Lucas
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - London :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Cooper,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1975.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xi, 220 p. :
- Dimensions - 23 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. - Story of Isla Corfield and her daughter, both evacuating Shanghai for India but caught in Manila where their ship was diverted. Being British nationals, the two were interned in Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Writer Lucas retraces their experiences through the notebooks kept by Isla Corfield during the entire period of internment, covering the shock of war, the feeling of helplessness being in a strange land and not having any friends. Is more critical of camp administration (by Americans) than most Santo Tomas memoirs. The Corfields were transferred to Los Baños in July 1944, and were liberated in February 1945 in a daring air and ground assault. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Corfield, Gillian.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Corfield, Isla.
- 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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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Corfield, Isla
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