| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
D 802 .P5 M66 2017 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17820 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781613734308 (hardbound)
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - D 802 .P5
- Item number - M66 2017
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
- Classification number - B
- Edition number - 23
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Montgomery, Ben,
- Relator term - author.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - The Leper Spy :
- Remainder of title - The Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - Ben Montgomery.
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Chicago :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Chicago Review Press,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2017
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - 266 pages :
- Other physical details - illustrations, maps ;
- Dimensions - 24 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 257-259) and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - Everything is in readiness -- Fools -- Family -- Safeguards -- Bombs -- Envelope -- Boys -- Hobnailed boots -- Bastards -- Volunteer -- Leaflets -- Gone -- Espionage -- Speedo -- Spies -- Promise -- Beleaguered -- Taken -- Pledge -- I'm a leper -- Vengeance -- Landings -- Advance -- Map -- Los Banos -- Dispatched -- Leper camp -- Loose ends -- Visits -- In sickness -- Independence -- Spotlight -- Discovery -- Return to the rock -- All that is changed -- Medals -- Friends of friends -- Carville -- Old fears -- Crusader -- Fallen -- Controversy -- Fences -- Graduation -- Praise -- Bureaucracy -- Sisters -- Deportation -- California -- Sunset -- Disappear -- I am still alive -- Anonymous.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "In 1944, as World War II raged in the Pacific, a young, vivacious Filipino woman with leprosy named Josefina Guerrero was swept up in the underground guerrilla movement in Manila. The convent-educated girl who loved reading poetry and listening to Chopin and Beethoven became one of the most reliable and courageous spies for the United States in the Pacific Theater, putting her life at risk for no reward but to help the Americans oust the Japanese occupiers from her homeland. She stalked through the woods, mapping machine-gun turrets around Manila Bay and delivering the maps to the United States so Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops knew where to drop bombs. She penetrated Japanese munitions holdings and alerted underground leaders. She secreted food and medicine to U.S. prisoners of war being tortured and starved in internment camps"-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Guerrero, Josefina.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - World War, 1939-1945
- General subdivision - Underground movements
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
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