| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
MS RH 56 |
| Copynumber |
1 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
16293 |
| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Esmerian, Paul
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| Title Statement |
- Title - War years in the Philippines, 1941-1945 [manuscript]
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Paul Esmerian
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - [S.l. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - s.n.],
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1980.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - [87] leaves :
- Dimensions - 32 x 25 cm.
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
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| Carrier Type |
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| General Note |
- General note - A partial translation of "Journal d'Extreme-Orient, 1940-1945" (Journal of the Far East). One of several versions.
- General note - Manuscript (Loose-leaf with binder)
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - The Japanese occupation of the Philippines and internment in Santo Tomas from a different perspective. Esmerian was a French national who was a young bank employee in Saigon until he was called to military service in 1939. He fought in the little-known Thai-French Indochina War of 1940, winning the Croix the Guerre for courage under fire. When the Japanese took Saigon in mid-1941, he was placed on the ship Marechal Foch which arrived in Mania just prior to the outbreak of war. Esmerian was considered an enemy alien by the Japanese, since he remained loyal to the French resistance government of Charles de Gaulle rather than to the Vichy government under Germany. He was thus interned in Santo Tomas - one of only seven Frenchmen in the camp. The memoir "Journal d'Extreme-Orient : 1940-1945," written in French, provides a perspective of the war and Santo Tomas that is different from the more numerous American memoirs. - 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 - Esmerian, Paul,
- Active dates - 1912
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Santo Tomas Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines).
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - France
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Prisoners of war
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- Form subdivision - Diaries.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Thai-Indochinese Conflict, 1940-1941
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, French.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Personal narratives, French.
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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