| Description |
157 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Summary |
"When Singapore fell to the Japanese on 15 February 1942 a young American newspaper woman and her husband were taken prisoner. They had been married just nine days before, on her twenty-eighth birthday. As a British doctor serving with the Royal Army Medical Corps he was sent to the military prisoner-of-war camp at Changi. She was interned in the Changi women's civilian prison. The two of them were separated for the next three and a half years and during that time she kept a diary in the form of a letter to her husband Philip. He read it only when they were at last united. The it was put away with other family papers until it came to light some thirty-five years later. 'Dear Philip' is a touching account of one young woman's war spent mainly in overcrowded and sometimes extremely uncomfortable conditions with over four hundred other women. For five months Freddy Bloom was put into a cell in the infamous Kempe-Tai Interrogation Headquarters with fifteen men who were being systematically tortured for information that would convict their colleagues. She survived and returned to the camp to continue her love letter to Philip. Much has been written about men's suffering and survival in the Second World War. Not much about women's. 'Dear Philip' is a love story with a difference - and a war story too, but one devoid of blood and thunder, full of love and quiet determination." -- dust jacket |
| Analysis |
Singapore Changi American women prisoners of war 1942-1945 Correspondence, diaries |
| Subject |
Bloom, Freddy -- Diaries.
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Bloom, Freddy.
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Changi POW Camp (Changi, Singapore) -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Changi -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- Singapore -- Changi -- Diaries.
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography.
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Prisoners of war -- United States -- Diaries.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
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| SUBJECT |
Changi (Singapore : Concentration camp) -- Biography
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Changi (Singapore) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81069919 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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Personal narratives.
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| LC no. |
81467570 |
| ISBN |
0370303458 |
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