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Fugitives : evading and escaping the Japanese /
"When the Japanese Imperial Forces invaded the Philippine Islands at the onset of World War II, they quickly rounded up Allied citizens on Luzon and imprisoned them as enemy aliens. These captured civilians were treated inhumanely from the start, and news of the atrocities committed by the enem...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Ky. :
University Press of Kentucky,
2001.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | "When the Japanese Imperial Forces invaded the Philippine Islands at the onset of World War II, they quickly rounded up Allied citizens on Luzon and imprisoned them as enemy aliens. These captured civilians were treated inhumanely from the start, and news of the atrocities committed by the enemy soon spread to the more remote islands to the south. Hearing this, many of the expatriates living there refused to surrender as their islands were occupied. Fugitives, based on the memoir of Jordan A. Hamner, tells the true story of a young civilian mining engineer trapped on the islands during the J. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (xiii, 143 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-143). |
| ISBN: | 081317080X 9780813170800 9780813138459 0813138450 1283327503 9781283327503 9786613327505 6613327506 |