| Description |
1 online resource (xxiv, 290 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits |
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The American military experience series |
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American military experience series.
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| Contents |
Section I. Fighting on Bataan. The war is on ; The billion dollar Christmas tree ; Many pilots and no airplanes ; The last days in Bataan ; The Death March -- Section II. Death's prison camps. Camp O'Donnell ; Cabanatuan ; More prison life at Cabanatuan ; En route to Dapecol -- Section III. Survival on Mindanao. Life at Dapecol ; A hernia saved my life ; More life at Dapecol ; Final days at Dapecol ; A hellship trip to Bilibid -- Section IV. Liberation and return ; Manila and Bilibid ; Life at Bilibid ; Final days of imprisonment ; Liberation ; Homeward bound -- Appendix. Military decorations and medal citations |
| Summary |
Drafted in 1945 following the author's liberation from a Japanese prisoner of war camp, this personal memoir of Colonel David L. Hardee was forgotten for over seventy years. A career infantry officer, Hardee fought during the Battle of Bataan as executive officer of the Provisional Air Corps Regiment. Captured in April 1942 after the American surrender on Bataan, Hardee survived the Bataan Death March and proceeded to endure a series of squalid prison camps. A debilitating hernia left Hardee too ill to travel to Japan in 1944, making him one of the few lieutenant colonels to remain in the Philippines and subsequently survive the war. Unlike memoirs written after decades of fading memories and contemporary influences, this unique prisoner of war memoir is a primary account written almost immediately after liberation from internment. This once-forgotten journal has been carefully edited, illustrated, and annotated to reveal the depth of Hardee's experience as a soldier, prisoner, and liberated survivor of the Pacific War. -- Inside jacket flap |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Hardee, David L., 1890-1969.
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography
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Prisoners of war -- Philippines -- Biography
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American
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Bataan Death March, Philippines, 1942.
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Bataan, Battle of, Philippines, 1942.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Philippines.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
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Military campaigns
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Prisoners of war
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Philippines
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Biographies
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives
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Personal narratives.
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Autobiographies.
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Récits personnels.
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Autobiographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Blazich, Frank A., Jr., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780826273598 |
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0826273599 |
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