A Free Frenchman Under The Japanese
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A Free Frenchman Under The Japanese
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Author : Robert Colquhoun
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2015-05-28
A Free Frenchman Under The Japanese written by Robert Colquhoun and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“It’s less painful perhaps to go to prison flanked by two policemen in a police van than to turn oneself in alone, in a hired vehicle going at a gentle trot, on a lovely sunny afternoon. A small piece of paper, covered with a tiny red Japanese stamp, bearing characters I don’t even understand, will make of me a prisoner, as surely as would have done men in helmets and jackboots.” Paul Esmérian’s diary begins with his arrival in the Philippines from French Indochina in the summer of 1941 and sets the scene with an absorbing portrait of pre-war Manila. Just months later, in December, came the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, quickly followed by the invasion of the Philippines. Esmérian is an eloquent witness to the fall of Manila and its subsequent occupation. As early as January 1942, the Japanese set up an internment camp for allied civilians – men, women and children – on the site of the University of Santo Tomás in northern Manila. It came to hold nearly four thousand internees – mostly American, but also British, Empire and allied European. Because France was no longer officially at war with Japan’s Axis partner Germany, French residents of Manila were not immediately interned, and for a year and a half Esmérian was able to live outside the Camp. He has left an engrossing account of life in the harsh setting of occupied Manila during this period. Eventually, however, in June 1943, as a Gaullist he was forced into Santo Tomás. Over the next eighteen months he continued to keep a diary which forms a precious record of life in the Camp. He charts the changes in conditions as the Japanese grip tightened, culminating in the internees’ dramatic liberation in February 1945 by a flying column of the US 1st Cavalry Division. Published in France in 1980, Paul Esmérian’s gripping diary can now be enjoyed by a wider audience in this fine translation by Robert Colquhoun, himself an internee in the same camp.
The Free Frenchman
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Author : Piers Paul Read
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Release Date : 1986
The Free Frenchman written by Piers Paul Read and has been published by Harvill Secker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Fiction categories.
The Free Frenchman
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Author : Paul Piers Read
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987-04-01
The Free Frenchman written by Paul Piers Read and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-04-01 with categories.
An epic novel of the French Resistance in World War II, set in France and Londond and covering the period from the late 20s through 1947, from the bestselling author of Alive.
The Free Frenchman
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Author : Piers Paul Read
language : en
Publisher: Ivy Books
Release Date : 1988-04-01
The Free Frenchman written by Piers Paul Read and has been published by Ivy Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-04-01 with categories.
Bertrand de Roujay was a free Frenchman, a Catholic aristocrat and conservative. He was swept away by the magnificent Madeleine Bonnet, daughter of a leftist historian--and by the rising tide of World War II. "Vivid and vigorous . . . absorbing and rich".--The New Yorker.
The Setting Sun Of Japan
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Author : Carl Randau
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2017-07-19
The Setting Sun Of Japan written by Carl Randau and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-19 with History categories.
Randau and Zugsmith, an American journalistic couple, report on a round trip they made through Japan, China, the Philippines, Malaya, the East Indies and Australia shortly before that part of the world was enveloped by total war.—Robert Gale Woolbert
The Bamboo Bracelet
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Author : Merilyn Brason
language : en
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Release Date : 2020-03-17
The Bamboo Bracelet written by Merilyn Brason and has been published by Troubador Publishing Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-17 with History categories.
It is 8th December1941. Fresh from England and six months pregnant, Ronny Rynd has left her husband in the suffocating heat of Manila to holiday in the mountain setting of Baguio. Following the surprise bombing of Pearl Harbour, she finds herself caught up in the Japanese attack on the Philippine Islands. Alone and vulnerable, this ordinary woman caught in the wrong place at the wrong time must learn how to survive. Years of incarceration in prisoner of war camps loom as Ronny struggles to bring up her baby, living in constant fear in hostile and primitive conditions. Against this background unlikely friendships blossom to sustain her. Desperate to be a family, the ever-feisty Ronny must confront the dangerous Japanese authorities for permission to be united with her husband, imprisoned in the overcrowded city camp in Manila. But conditions there present different horrors and further heartbreak. A tribute to the remarkable men and women who created their own functioning society within their camps, this book displays their inventiveness, determination and unexpected humour. It is a story of family life lived in spite of the brutal regime of years in prisoner of war camps.
Uss Pampanito
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Author : Gregory F Michno
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2016-01-12
Uss Pampanito written by Gregory F Michno and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-12 with History categories.
Most World War II submarine stories are glorifications of war written by submarine captains about their own boats. But the USS Pampanito was not a typical submarine. The sub and its crew caused plenty of destruction, but they found the pinnacle of their honor and fame in a dramatic sea rescue. Gregory F. Michno relates the experiences of the crewmen—both enlisted men and officers—who served on the USS Pampanito. The Pampanito story begins with the boat's construction in 1943, continues through its six combat missions, and concludes with its decommissioning after the war in 1945. The heart of the book is the September 12, 1944, attack on a Japanese convoy carrying English and Australian POWs from the Burma-Siam Railway (of Bridge on the River Kwai fame) to prison camps in Japan. The Pampanito helped sink two of the prison ships, unwittingly killing hundreds of Allied soldiers, but then returned to rescue the survivors. The crew picked a record seventy-three men from the sea.
Suicidal Narrative In Modern Japan
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Author : Alan Stephen Wolfe
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Suicidal Narrative In Modern Japan written by Alan Stephen Wolfe and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dazai Osamu (1909-1948) is one of Japan's most famous literary suicides, known as the earliest postwar manifestation of the genuinely alienated writer in Japan. In this first deconstructive reading of a modern Japanese novelist, Alan Wolfe draws on contemporary Western literary and cultural theories and on a knowledge of Dazai's work in the context of Japanese literary history to provide a fresh view of major texts by this important literary figure. In the process, Wolfe revises Japanese as well as Western scholarship on Dazai and discovers new connections among suicide, autobiography, alienation, and modernization. As shown here, Dazai's writings resist narrative and historical closure; while he may be said to serve the Japanese literary establishment as both romantic decadent and representative scapegoat, his texts reveal a deconstructive edge through which his posthumous status as a monument of negativity is already perceived and undone. Wolfe maintains that cultural modernization pits a Western concept of the individual as realized self and coherent subject against an Eastern absent self--and that a felt need to overcome this tension inspires the autobiographical fiction so prevalent in Japanese novels. Suicidal Narrative in Modern Japan shows that Dazai's texts also resist readings that would resolve the gaps (East/West, self/other, modern/premodern) still prevalent in Japanese intellectual life. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
French English A Comparison
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Author : Philip Gilbert Hamerton
language : en
Publisher: Good Press
Release Date : 2023-07-11
French English A Comparison written by Philip Gilbert Hamerton and has been published by Good Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-11 with Fiction categories.
"French & English : A comparison" by Philip Gilbert Hamerton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
A Doctor S Borneo
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Author : Derwent Kell
language : en
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Release Date : 1984
A Doctor S Borneo written by Derwent Kell and has been published by Conran Octopus this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Biography & Autobiography categories.