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| Item Call Number |
DS 666 .A4 F73 2010 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
17867 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - 9781440193743 (softbound)
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| Authentication Code |
- Authentication code - pcc
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| Geographic Area Code |
- Geographic area code - a-ph---
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - DS 666 .A4
- Item number - F73 2010
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Frank, John Russell.
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| Title Statement |
- Title - On the road home :
- Remainder of title - an American story : a memoir of triumph and tragedy on a forgotten frontier /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - John Russell Frank
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Bloomington, IN :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - iUniverse,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - c2010.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xix, 336 pages
- Dimensions - 23 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
- Bibliography, etc - Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-324).
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| Formatted Contents Note |
- Formatted contents note - "I am proud I am of an age and in this thing" -- "They did not think we could shoot so well... but they got fooled" -- "I for one do not want any more war" -- "...hence her love for the chap who wore Uncle's duds" -- "Success or failure she has remained the same" -- "I came here to Zamboanga" -- "Mr. Frank has named his plantation Frankfort" -- "It seems that Old Fate has marked out my path" -- "The world is my home" -- "If you know a bright enterprising young man" -- "Following her recovery, Okio was looking for a job" -- "When death became inevitable, Laura was not denied" -- "Mr. Frank is taking his hemp stripping machine to exhibit" -- "I'm sending the boys to that great company I've told them about" -- "I have to build and deliver ten hemp machines which I have sold, and it's some job" -- "I'll not ship any package off to the university unless I know its contents" -- "I'm a little scared--new land, new people" -- "Our boat got in at three o'clock and how excited I was" -- "I'm in a daze--absolutely--totally gone" -- "You know what a big 'fraidy-cat' I usually am" -- "So many things have happened to me" -- "Don't worry about the Japanese trouble" -- "Frances Children Leaving End March Proceed Tucker" -- "Those were Japanese planes bombing our airfield" -- "Situation Normal All Well Love Sam" -- "How helpless and forsaken we felt" -- "We surrendered at the club" -- "We volunteered to go beyond the Japanese lines" -- "Somehow I have made myself believe you are still alive " -- "Lt. Hosaka advised that the internees would be used for labor" -- "They shot him in the back of the head..." -- "Fourteen men were driven to the former Happy Life Blues Cabaret" -- "We boarded the Shinsei Maru on Christmas Eve" -- "Santo Tomas looked like a summer resort but it didn't last long" -- "The boys smashed through and what a day it was" -- "Rejoice--it won't be long now" -- "I found the family all well after some trying years" -- "I know how to start from scratch. That's about all I do know" -- "I built castles in the air...but it all came tumbling down" -- "A special favor I would ask for you..."
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - "The year was 1898 and army private Patrick Henry Frank as in New Orleans awaiting transport to Cuba to fight in the Spanish-American War. A change in orders and Private Frank was instead going to the Philippines. Admiral Dewey had stunningly defeated the Spanish navy at Manila Bay, but President McKinley wanted boots on the ground. Patrick Henry Frank's country was seeking its manifest destiny further west than America had ever moved.
Through a riveting narrative history, author John Russell Frank chronicles the events of his family's half-century on America's frontier in the Philippines--war, adventure, colonialism, the heartbreaking deaths of family members, businesses ravaged by WWII, and internment in brutal Japanese prison camps. It is an epic story about his family's triumph and tragedy in a strange land, a story of how they came to absorb and become a part of another culture.
The narrative flows from a substantial amount of intimate archival material : historically rich letters, war diaries, photographs, memoirs, and oral and video histories from the family's experiences in the Philippines. He shares a way of life and a time-period unknown or forgotten by the present generation--pivotal years of America's past. In the process, the author discovers his own roots."
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Frank, Patrick Henry
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Americans
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- Form subdivision - Biography.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- Chronological subdivision - 1898-1946
- General subdivision - History.
- Geographic name - Philippines
- Form subdivision - Biography.
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