| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 811.5 M336 2010 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
18708 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781606930151 (hardbound)
- International Standard Book Number - 9781631358555 (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 - McCoy, Michael
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Through my mother's eyes :
- Remainder of title - the story of a young girl's life as a prisoner of war in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Michael McCoy with Jean-Marie Heskett
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - New York, N.Y. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Strategic Book Publishing,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2010.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [viii], 199 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations ,
- Dimensions - 24 cm.
- Extent - 179 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - The purported story of Jean-Marie Faggiano Heskett, the author's mother, as an internee in Santo Tomas Internment Camp. She was barely 6 years old when the Japanese entered Manila and interned her and her family. The story begins with her son discovering an old doll and asks his mother about it: Jean-Marie tells him it was given to her by an American GI in 1945. Ironically the doll was Japanese, and the story unraveled from there. Told in his mother's words, coming out of an extended interview, portions of the book are improbable and others simply not true. Jean-Marie claims to have learned enough Japanese during the war to be able to interpret for Gen. Chase (commander of the 1st Cavalry forces which liberated UST in 1945) and get Japanese to surrender; she also claims to have helped direct American artillery fire. Veterans and former Santo Tomas internees have severely criticized this book as being inaccurate and unfair to those who were there. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Heskett, Jean-Marie
- General subdivision - Childhood and youth.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Concentration camp inmates
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Japan
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - United States
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Children
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
- 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 - Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).
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| Personal Name |
- Personal name - Heskett, Jean-Marie
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