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020			_a963381881 (softbound)
040			_cFHL
041			_aeng
050			_aD 805 .P6 W39 1999
100			_aWhitfield, Evelyn _910254
245			_aThree year picnic : _ban American woman's life inside Japanese prison camps in the Philippines during WWII / _cEvelyn Whitfield
260			_aCorvallis, OR : _bPremiere Editions International, _cc1999.
300			_a320 p. : _bill., _c22 x 14 cm.
336			_2rdacontent
337			_2rdamedia
338			_2rdacarrier
500			_aWritten as part of her healing process, 50 years ago, then put away in a drawer. Half a century later, her words have more impact then ever. - Roderick Hall
520			_aPersonal account of an American woman married to a logging engineer, who worked in northern Luzon, where the two stayed. When the war started, Mrs. Whitfield was evacuated to Manila but her husband Norman stayed on in Baguio. Mrs. Whitfield, in Manila, was interned by the Japanese in Santo Tomas Internment Camp, and tried to survive as best she could, making friends. She describes living conditions in the camp, and how she found out her husband was interned in Baguio. She managed to get permission to go to Baguio and was reunited with her husband in Camp Holmes in December 1943. She and her husband spent a year in Camp Holmes, and were moved to Bilibid a year later, where they were freed in February 1945. The original manuscript was written shortly after the war, to help heal the wounds, but it was shelved for over fifty years. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
546			_aEnglish
600			_aWhitfield, Evelyn. _910254
650			_aPrisoners of war _zPhilippines _xBiography. _9416
650			_aPrisoners of war _zUnited States _xBiography. _97763
650			_aWomen _zUnited States _xBiography. _910255
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xConcentration Camps _zPhilippines. _929212
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xPersonal narratives, American. _9401
650			_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xPrisoners and prisons, Japanese. _9191
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