| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
MS RH 19 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Itemnotes |
PDF copy available |
| Barcode |
16177 |
| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - MS RH 19
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Litton, James
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The battle of Manila :
- Remainder of title - February 3 - March 3, 1945 : reminiscences /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by James Litton
- Medium - [manuscript]
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - battlingbastardsbataan.com,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 2009].
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [16] leaves :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 32 x 25 cm.
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - Manuscript (Loose-leaf with binder)
- General note - Unpublished memoir. The author wrote his reminiscences sixty-four years after the Battle of Manila ended. When it began he was eleven years old. He gives a graphic account of his family’s survival. - Roderick Hall
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - A graphic personal account by an eleven-year old boy during the last months of the Japanese occupation in Manila, emphasizing particularly the horrors he and his family experienced during the battle of Manila when the family home was caught in the middle of the battle. The family evacuated to Philippine General Hospital where they encountered untold difficulties and horrors.
Written many years after the war, but extremely detailed and accurate, this account was first published in the Philippines Free Press in 2009, and later uploaded in the Battling Bastards of Bataan (of which Litton is the Philippine representative) website. Contains rare photographs, although the one labeled “Japanese Soldier Watching Manila Burn” is actually Cebu in 1942. - 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 - Manila (Philippines)
- General subdivision - History, Military.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Manila.
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