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Post by frank on Feb 19, 2009 23:23:59 GMT -5
She was the wife of photojournalist Carl Mydans and was an author herself. This book is available at present. www.alibris.com/booksearch?qwork=4861492&matches=7&author=Mydans%2C+Shelley+Smith&browse=1&cm_sp=works*listing*titlewww.biblio.com/books/6352695.htmlThe Open City Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1945. Hard Cover. Near Fine in Good DJ. 245pp. "A novel of Americans left behind in the Phillipines". This book is a stated first edition (only edition) of a very rare wartime novel. Dust jacket is price-clipped and in good condition. DJ states "This novel has not been serialized in any form prior to book publication" and the copyright page states "First Edition". There is no writing/smudging/staining whatsoever inside the book as well as no bookplate. Not ex-library. The book itself looks virtually untouched. Deals with the experiences of Americans in Japanese interment camps during World War II (based on the author's own experiences). For inquiries and further photos, please e-mail us.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 245, 1945, Doubleday, Mydans, Open City, War Novel, Historical Fiction, Japan, Phillipines, Interment, World War, WWII, Rare, Old, Unique, Antique, Vintage, First Edition. NYtimes obit: query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E4DE1E30F93AA35750C0A9649C8B63www.stanfordalumni.org/news/magazine/2000/marapr/shelf_life/review.html
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Post by frank on Feb 19, 2009 23:37:56 GMT -5
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Post by frank on Feb 19, 2009 23:46:45 GMT -5
By the time Pearl Harbor was bombed by the Japanese on Dec. 7, 1941, the Mydans had been posted to cover the war in Asia. Their article “Defenders of the Philippines” – which Shelley Mydans researched and wrote and Carl photographed – arrived by dispatch in New York on Pearl Harbor day. Within a month, the Mydans had been interned with about 3,500 American and Allied nationals by the advancing Japanese forces at Santo Tomas University in Manila. They endured malnutrition and other hardships that Shelley Mydans later described in her novel, “The Open City.” The next September, they and some other prisoners were transferred to Shanghai and released 15 months later in a prisoner exchange. ...when the Americans landed on Luzon, everyone had expected MacArthur to go onto the island on pontoons that had been laid out for him so that the general could avoid getting his feet wet. But as the landing craft neared the beach, it was put into reverse and then went down shore. “Having spent a lot of time with MacArthur, it flashed on me what was happening,” Mydans said in “Life Photographers: What They Saw” (1998), which author John Loengard dedicated to Mydans. “He was avoiding the pontoons and was going to land in the water further down the beach. “So I ran up those pontoons with cameras hanging on me and saw the [landing craft] straighten out and proceed parallel with the shoreline. I followed it, running along the shoreline, until, as I expected, the boat turned and headed in, and there I was standing in my dry shoes waiting for MacArthur to come ashore wading in the knee-deep water.” The picture of MacArthur grimly walking onto the island – wearing his signature aviator glasses and surrounded by about a dozen helmeted soldiers, with two troop ships in the background – is one of the most recognizable of the war years. Mydans later said of MacArthur, “No one I have ever known in public life had a better understanding of the drama and power of a picture.” It was a great frustration to Mydans that many believed that MacArthur had come ashore a second time so that Mydans could get a better shot. “He did it once,” Mydans told Loengard of the general, saying MacArthur was notorious for not cooperating with photographers. But, Mydans admitted resignedly, “I now realize the question will go on forever.” Because of his many friends in MacArthur’s command, Mydans was allowed to take part in what he later called “the most important story of my life”: the freeing of Santo Tomas, where he and his wife had been imprisoned. articles.latimes.com/2004/aug/18/local/me-mydans18
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Post by frank on Jul 21, 2023 12:52:21 GMT -5
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Post by frank on Jul 21, 2023 12:56:13 GMT -5
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