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| Item Call Number |
D 767.4 W316 1946 |
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| Barcode |
12665 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (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 767.4 W316 1946
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew,
- Dates associated with a name - 1883-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - General Wainwright's story :
- Remainder of title - the account of four years of humiliating defeat, surrender, and captivity /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by General Jonathan M. Wainwright, who paid the price of his country's unpreparedness ; edited by Robert Considine
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Garden City, N.Y. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Doubleday,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1946.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [vi], 314 p. :
- Dimensions - 22 x 15 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Personal account (assisted by a journalist) of the commanding general of the US Armed Forces in the Philippines (USAFIP) who surrendered Corregidor - and the Philippines - in May 1942. Briefly recounts conditions in the Philippines just before the war, his being assigned by MacArthur first as North Luzon Force commander, then I Corps commander on Bataan, and finally commander of USAFIP after MacArthur evacuated to Australia. Details the operations of the forces under his command, and his decision to surrender. The remaining half of the book is a narration of Wainwright's experiences a prisoner of war - briefly in Camp O'Donnell, then Taiwan and finally Manchuria, where he was liberated. Written right after the war, the book was one of the first accounts of the defense of the Philippines from a general officer (but it also reportedly prevented the other generals from criticizing their commander). Wainwright was awarded the US Medal of Honor after the war. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Wainwright, Jonathan Mayhew,
- Dates associated with a name - 1883-1953.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- Geographic subdivision - Bataan.
- 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 - Bataan (Philippines: Province), Battle of, 1942.
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| Index Termuncontrolled |
- Uncontrolled term - Bataan
- Uncontrolled term - I Corps
- Uncontrolled term - North Luzon Force
- Uncontrolled term - personal account - American
- Uncontrolled term - Philippine defense campaign
- Uncontrolled term - POW account
- Uncontrolled term - surrender of Corregidor
- Uncontrolled term - US Army Forces in the Far East (USAFFE)
- Uncontrolled term - USFIP
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