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RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 810 S8 Q57 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14148 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9711001985 (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Quirino, Carlos,
- Dates associated with a name - 1910-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Chick Parsons :
- Remainder of title - America's master spy in the Philippines /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Carlos Quirino
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Quezon City :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - New Day Publishers
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1984
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [viii], 168 p.
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 23 x 15 cm
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Researched biography of Charles "Chick" Parsons, American intelligence agent and coordinator of supply missions to the guerrillas in the Japanese-held Philippines. Parsons came to the Philippines in the 1920s, rose to become "boss stevedore" of the Luzon Stevedoring Company. Quirino narrates Parsons' tale during the war - a story already previously told by two books (those by Ingham, "Rendezvous by Submarine," and Wise, "Secret Mission to the Philippines"), which Quirino relies on heavily (large portions are paraphrases from these, and two or three other basic works on MacArthur and the guerrillas). Quirino, a Filipino historian, knew Parsons personally but did not make the best use of his friendship with the man he wrote about. Reprints Parsons' June 1943 report on conditions in the Philippine Islands (already published in Willoughby's "Guerrilla Resistance Movement in the Philippines"); additional appendices are the citation of Parsons' Medal of Valor from the Philippine government and a letter from Parsons to Col. Macario Peralta, guerrilla commander in Panay. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Parsons, Charles A.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Spies
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Secret service
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Secret service
- Geographic subdivision - United States.
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