| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 805 .J3 M87 2014 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17796 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9780786496815 (softbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 805 .J3
- Item number - M87 2014
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
- Classification number - 940.547252
- Edition number - 23
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Murphy, Kevin C.,
- Relator term - author.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Inside the Bataan Death March :
- Remainder of title - defeat, travail and memory /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Kevin C. Murphy.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Jefferson, N.C. :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - McFarland & Company,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2014
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - vii, 320 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations, map ;
- Dimensions - 26 cm
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| Content Type |
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| Media Type |
- Media type term - unmediated
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| Carrier Type |
- Carrier type term - volume
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-315) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Virtue and vice -- An army's ethos -- An army apart -- Chaos meets Kata -- The lens of memory -- Remembering and forgetting -- The wages of defeat -- Facing Filipinos -- Kinds of kindness.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is simple: American prisoners of war suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors while Filipinos, sympathetic to the Americans, looked on. Most survivors of the march wrote about their experiences decades after the war and a number of factors distorted their accounts. The crucial aspect of memory is central to this study--how it is constructed, by whom and for what purpose. This book questions the prevailing interpretation, reconsiders the actions of all three groups in their cultural contexts and suggests a far greater complexity. Among the conclusions is that violence on the march was largely the result of a clash of cultures--undisciplined, individualistic Americans encountered Japanese who valued order and form, while Filipinos were active, even ambitious, participants in the drama.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- 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
- General subdivision - Campaigns
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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