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FROM: "Cristine Mitchamore" <[removed]@sanantonio.gov>
REC'D: 2/18/04, 7:45 PM

Help!

I've got a patron who's looking for a novel he read about 40 years ago. It was set during WWII and was about one American survivor on a Japanese island. He thinks the title was Thousand(s) to One or a variation thereof.

We've tried Google, WorldCat, Amazon, NoveList and What Do I Read Next with no success. Any ideas?

Cristine Mitchamore
San Antonio Public Library
San Antonio, TX

FROM: "Jean Andrews" <[removed]@tampabay.rr.com>
REC'D: 2/18/04, 8:25 PM

This a really long shot but there is a book by Quentin Reynolds called
70,000 to 1. Published in 1946, it is about an American bombardier who is
shot down over the Pacific during WWII and makes it to a Japanese-held
island where he survives for 9 months with the help of natives. I had always
thought it was nonfiction--but maybe that's just the way the story is told.
I have a copy of it--have not looked up information about it anywhere.

Jean Andrews
USF, Tampa

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cristine Mitchamore" <[removed]@sanantonio.gov>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:37 PM
Subject: American during WWII on japanese island

Help!

I've got a patron who's looking for a novel he read about 40 years ago. It
was set during WWII and was about one American survivor on a Japanese
island. He thinks the title was Thousand(s) to One or a variation thereof.

We've tried Google, WorldCat, Amazon, NoveList and What Do I Read Next with
no success. Any ideas?

Cristine Mitchamore
San Antonio Public Library
San Antonio, TX

FROM: "Cristine Mitchamore" <[removed]@sanantonio.gov>
REC'D: 2/20/04, 9:26 AM

Thanks, Jean. This sounds very promising.

Cristine

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Andrews [[removed]@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:24 PM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Re: American during WWII on japanese island

This a really long shot but there is a book by Quentin Reynolds called
70,000 to 1. Published in 1946, it is about an American bombardier who is
shot down over the Pacific during WWII and makes it to a Japanese-held
island where he survives for 9 months with the help of natives. I had always
thought it was nonfiction--but maybe that's just the way the story is told.
I have a copy of it--have not looked up information about it anywhere.

Jean Andrews
USF, Tampa

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cristine Mitchamore" <[removed]@sanantonio.gov>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 8:37 PM
Subject: American during WWII on japanese island

Help!

I've got a patron who's looking for a novel he read about 40 years ago. It
was set during WWII and was about one American survivor on a Japanese
island. He thinks the title was Thousand(s) to One or a variation thereof.

We've tried Google, WorldCat, Amazon, NoveList and What Do I Read Next with
no success. Any ideas?

Cristine Mitchamore
San Antonio Public Library
San Antonio, TX

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