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| Item Call Number |
D 811.5 P39 1995 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14461 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 761000658 (softbound)
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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 811.5 P39 1995
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Payne, Georgia L. Barnes-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Caught in the crossfire
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Georgia L. Barnes-Payne
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Polk, MO :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Payne Prairie Publications,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c1995.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [vi], 173 p., [3] p. :
- Other physical details - ill.maps ;
- Dimensions - 23 x 16 cm.
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| General Note |
- General note - Memoir of the author's childhood experiences in an internment camp in the Philippines during WWII. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account of an American twelve-year-old girl, daughter of a mining engineer working close to Manila. She recounts her experiences from the start of the war, when she was in school; attempted evacuation to safer grounds in Laguna, only to return to Manila. The author and her family were interned in Santo Tomas for three years; she writes about her experiences in the camp, facing hardship, shortages and separation from her father, who was housed with the men in a separate building. The memoir covers the whole war, through liberation, reunification with her father, and repatriation to the US. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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