Santo Tomas Internment Camp, 1942-1945
Title | Santo Tomas Internment Camp, 1942-1945 PDF eBook |
Author | Frederic Harper Stevens |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1946 |
Genre | Prisoners of war |
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So Far from Home
Title | So Far from Home PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Elliott Johansen |
Publisher | |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Santo Tomas Internment Camp, 4 Jan. 1942-3 Feb. 1945
Title | Santo Tomas Internment Camp, 4 Jan. 1942-3 Feb. 1945 PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Forces, Pacific |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 1945 |
Genre | Santo Tomás Internment Camp (Manila, Philippines) |
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The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas
Title | The Iron Gates of Santo Tomas PDF eBook |
Author | Emily Van Sickle |
Publisher | Chicago Review Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-05-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1613738110 |
When Manila fell to the Japanese in January, 1942, the Van Sickles were among the enemy aliens taken by the victors to the campus of Manila's University of Santo Tomas, where they were to remain unwilling "guests" for more than three years. This is a fascinating, detailed and insightful account of life in a civilian concentration camp as gripping and readable as any tale of adventure.
The Gambit
Title | The Gambit PDF eBook |
Author | Jennifer R. Terry |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Santo Tomas Internment Camp
Title | Santo Tomas Internment Camp PDF eBook |
Author | Lucille Gardner |
Publisher | |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 1965 |
Genre | Americans |
ISBN |
Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp
Title | Surviving a Japanese Internment Camp PDF eBook |
Author | Rupert Wilkinson |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2013-12-04 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786465700 |
During World War II the Japanese imprisoned more American civilians at Manila's Santo Tomas prison camp than anywhere else, along with British and other nationalities. Placing the camp's story in the wider history of the Pacific war, this book tells how the camp went through a drastic change, from good conditions in the early days to impending mass starvation, before its dramatic rescue by U.S. Army "flying columns." Interned as a small boy with his mother and older sister, the author shows the many ways in which the camp's internees handled imprisonment--and their liberation afterwards. Using a wealth of Santo Tomas memoirs and diaries, plus interviews with other ex-internees and veteran army liberators, he reveals how children reinvented their own society, while adults coped with crowded dormitories, evaded sex restrictions, smuggled in food, and through a strong internee government, dealt with their Japanese overlords. The text explores the attitudes and behavior of Japanese officials, ranging from sadistic cruelty to humane cooperation, and asks philosophical questions about atrocity and moral responsibility.