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The Drainpipe Diary
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286 pages, Hardcover
First published January 6, 2015
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October 13, 2020
I read the second edition of this softcover book, published in 1981 and titled Infamous Santo Tomas.
Before World War II, Tressa Cates took various jobs so she could to travel and live around the world. Working as a civilian nurse in Manila, she and her fiancé spent what would have been their wedding day as new civilian prisoners in Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Although she could have been punished or tortured for keeping a record of her internment, she kept a diary and hid it in a nearby drainpipe. She provides a balance of rumors, enemy propaganda in the form of the Japanese controlled local Manila paper, observations, details, and feelings. With the eye of a trained nurse, she paints a picture of the suffering of starvation, inadequate medicines, and imprisonment.
Regardless of how many different books I read about the interred starving and Allied civilians in the Philippines during WWII, I cry reading about their liberation.
The author also provides details of what it Manila was like after the liberation of Santo Tomas, including the Japanese’ Rape of Manila and the aftermath of the battle on the war-torn city.
Before World War II, Tressa Cates took various jobs so she could to travel and live around the world. Working as a civilian nurse in Manila, she and her fiancé spent what would have been their wedding day as new civilian prisoners in Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Although she could have been punished or tortured for keeping a record of her internment, she kept a diary and hid it in a nearby drainpipe. She provides a balance of rumors, enemy propaganda in the form of the Japanese controlled local Manila paper, observations, details, and feelings. With the eye of a trained nurse, she paints a picture of the suffering of starvation, inadequate medicines, and imprisonment.
Regardless of how many different books I read about the interred starving and Allied civilians in the Philippines during WWII, I cry reading about their liberation.
The author also provides details of what it Manila was like after the liberation of Santo Tomas, including the Japanese’ Rape of Manila and the aftermath of the battle on the war-torn city.
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