Code Name; High Pockets; The Story of Claire Phillips, An American Mata Hari, and the World War II Resistance Movements in the Philippines

Edna Bautista Binkowski (AUTHOR SIGNED)

ISBN 10: 9719360704 / ISBN 13: 9789719360704

Published by Valour Publishing, Limay, Bataan, Philippines, 2006

About this Item

Valour Publishing, Limay, Bataan, Philippines. 2006. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Revised Edition. Inscribed by the author on the FFFP in 2010. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: New, with a shipping bump to the upper front tip with wrinkling of the wrap, the tips, and the first half of the book. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 260 pp 8vo. This is the story of Claire Phillips who in her own way fought a war against the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II. Married to an American soldier, she moved messages from Manila to the POW camps and the guerrilla troops in the mountains. She established the Tsubaki Club in Manila that catered to Japanese forces to obtain information that was passed on to aid anti-Japanese efforts. The book covers not only her actions, but also those of many other non-interned women in the Philippines who operated in similar manners to thwart the Japanese military. A clean very presentable new copy.

Seller Inventory # 010015

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Code Name; High Pockets; The Story of Claire Phillips, An American Mata Hari, and the World War II Resistance Movements in the Philippines
• Publisher: Valour Publishing, Limay, Bataan, Philippines
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9719360704
• ISBN 13: 9789719360704
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Revised Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Signed: Inscribed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies
  • Womens's Studies
  • World War II

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Synopsis

CODE NAME: HIGH POCKETS is a true story of Claire Phillips, an American Mata Hari and the resistance movement during World War II in the Philippines. Claire Phillips was High Pockets, a code name she adapted for having the habit of stashing important notes and valuables inside her brassiere. She established an exclusive club in Manila called Tsubaki Club that became a hotbed of espionage against the Japanese forces. With the money she made out of th Japanese, she sent aid and supplies to the Bataan guerillas, to the POWs in Cabanatuan and other prison camps. Ms. Binkowski takes you into an exclusive nightclub in Manila for Japanese officers and affluent Japanese businessmen, during WWII, in Philippines. You travel into the horrific prison camps. You go to the foothills and mountains of Bataan, where the guerrillas hid, waiting for their moment to strike. You meet the spies in Manila who risked everything to smuggle food and medicine into those prison camps, and then descend into the smelly dungeons of Fort Santiago to hear their screams, as they are tortured by the Kempetai. You witness them being murdered, by decapitation, in the Chinese Cemetery. Then ... Liberation!