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The Leper Spy : the Story of an Unlikely Hero of World War II / Ben Montgomery.
Author
Montgomery, Ben
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Chicago : Chicago Review Press, [2017]
Description
266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Call Number
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Notes
ReCAP - Remote Storage
D802.P5 M66 2017
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Subject(s)
World War, 1939-1945
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Underground movements
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Philippines
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Philippines
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History
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Japanese occupation, 1942-1945
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Biography
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Guerrero, Josefina
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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Getty AAT genre
collective biographies
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Summary note
"In 1944, as World War II raged in the Pacific, a young, vivacious Filipino woman with leprosy named Josefina Guerrero was swept up in the underground guerrilla movement in Manila. The convent-educated girl who loved reading poetry and listening to Chopin and Beethoven became one of the most reliable and courageous spies for the United States in the Pacific Theater, putting her life at risk for no reward but to help the Americans oust the Japanese occupiers from her homeland. She stalked through the woods, mapping machine-gun turrets around Manila Bay and delivering the maps to the United States so Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops knew where to drop bombs. She penetrated Japanese munitions holdings and alerted underground leaders. She secreted food and medicine to U.S. prisoners of war being tortured and starved in internment camps"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-259) and index.
Contents
Everything is in readiness
Fools
Family
Safeguards
Bombs
Envelope
Boys
Hobnailed boots
Bastards
Volunteer
Leaflets
Gone
Espionage
Speedo
Spies
Promise
Beleaguered
Taken
Pledge
I'm a leper
Vengeance
Landings
Advance
Map
Los Banos
Dispatched
Leper camp
Loose ends
Visits
In sickness
Independence
Spotlight
Discovery
Return to the rock
All that is changed
Medals
Friends of friends
Carville
Old fears
Crusader
Fallen
Controversy
Fences
Graduation
Praise
Bureaucracy
Sisters
Deportation
California
Sunset
Disappear
I am still alive
Anonymous.
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ISBN
9781613734308 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1613734301
LCCN
2016002542
OCLC
936234484
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