A Wartime Memoir
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Disguised
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Author : Rita de Clercq Zubli
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2007-08-14
Disguised written by Rita de Clercq Zubli and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-14 with Young Adult Nonfiction categories.
Told in her own words, here is the true story of a girl who posed as a boy during World War II — and dared to speak up for her fellow prisoners of war. With the Japanese army poised to invade their Indonesian island in 1942, Rita la Fontaine’s family knew that they and the other Dutch and Dutch-Indonesian residents would soon become prisoners of war. Fearing that twelve-year-old Rita would be forced to act as a "comfort woman" for the Japanese soldiers, the family launched a desperate plan to turn Rita into "Rick," cutting her hair short and dressing her in boy’s clothes. Rita’s aptitude for languages earned her a position as translator for the commandant of the prisoner camp, and for the next three years she played a dangerous game of disguise while advocating against poor conditions, injustice, and torture. Sixty-five years later, Rita describes a war experience like no other — a remarkable tale of integrity, fortitude, and honor. Back matter includes a glossary.
A Wartime Memoir
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Author : Alaine Polcz
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
A Wartime Memoir written by Alaine Polcz and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
Through The Burning Steppe
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Author : Elena Fedorovna Kozhina
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Through The Burning Steppe written by Elena Fedorovna Kozhina and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A wartime memoir through the eyes of a Russian child.
Disguised
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Author : Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli
language : en
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Disguised written by Rita la Fontaine de Clercq Zubli and has been published by Candlewick Press (MA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Male impersonators categories.
When the Japanese army invaded their Indonesian island, twelve Rita's family turned her into "Rick" so that she would not be forced to act as a "comfort woman" for the Japanese soldiers. As Rick in the prison camps, she earns the respect of her captors and fellow prisoners.
Forbidden Family
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Author : Margaret Sams
language : en
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
Release Date : 1997-10-15
Forbidden Family written by Margaret Sams and has been published by Univ of Wisconsin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-10-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Written just five years after the end of World War II, Margaret Sams's memoir testifies in unforgettable detail to life in the internment camps...It is a moving portrait of a woman turning away from conventional morality and struggling with conscience, hunger, disease, and fear. Ultimately, it is a portrait of courage, survival, and love" -- Back of cover.
Survivor
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Author : Michiko Fisher
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012-07
Survivor written by Michiko Fisher and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
SURVIVOR - The personal story of a young girl, pulled from her innocent life as a senior high school student during World War II; suddenly thrust into enforced servitude as a wartime factory worker - a gakuto-doin - for the imperial Japanese government. Follow her story as she is torn from an idyllic school life, deprived of her graduation and forced to leave her family behind. Suddenly, with little training and even less desire, she finds herself on an aircraft engine assembly line with hundreds of her fellow students during the latter months of the war. Share her frustrations of spending mindless hours on the assembly line, contrasted with the sheer terror of constant air attacks by American bombers. Witness her courage and tenacity to overcome the helplessness and futility of postwar conditions in Japan to finally realize her dream to one day go to Hawaii. Learn how a chance encounter with a young American sparked a love affair that would eventually propel her to Hawaii - then on to mainland USA - a long way from gakuto-doin to naturalized American citizen.
My Middle Name Is Israel
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Author : Hans Ludwig Riess
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
My Middle Name Is Israel written by Hans Ludwig Riess and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A story of adventure, friendship, love, betrayal and war. "The WAR OF ANGELS" takes us into a magical existence where heaven, hell and earth become one canvas for this epic story. Archangels, led by Michael and Sataniel (Satan) collide once more with the fury of the heavens, with man and earth trapped between they and their armies, their futures hanging on the outcome of the battle. Three SETI scientists capture a satellite photo of the arrival of a mysterious being that has the power to alter man's future and change the course of the world. On a remote Italian mountainside, the ancient secret order of monks known as the Montiarans encounter a visitor (The Archangel Michael) whose presence could mean peace for the world or the end of days. Michael, while searching for his enemies, unknowingly risks all when he falls in love with a human woman, Charlie. Lowering his defenses and assuming temporary human form to be with her, he is mortally wounded, trapping him in his human state.. Leading his army now will surely mean his death. But the warrior summons his remaining strength and courage and charges onto the battlefield. Earth. Millions upon millions of Angels clash, destroying everything in their paths. The world explodes into mayhem as the stage is set for the largest battle the earth has ever seen and whose outcome will herald a new era for man. Will the days to come be the foretold thousand years of peace? Or is it the dawn of the rule of the beast? When the end is near, the world will take sides. Which side will you choose? "And then night came upon the earth and the sun never again touched the face of man." www.DarrenDowler.com www.RockandRolltheMovie.com www.myspace.com/DarrenDowlerMusic www.myspace.com/TheWarOfAngels
Warsaw Boy
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Author : Andrew Borowiec
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2014-07-03
Warsaw Boy written by Andrew Borowiec and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Warsaw Boy is the remarkable true story of a sixteen-year old boy soldier in war-torn Poland. Poland suffered terribly under the Nazis. By the end of the war six million had been killed: some were innocent civilians - half of them were Jews - but the rest died as a result of a ferocious guerrilla war the Poles had waged. On 1 August 1944 Andrew Borowiec, a fifteen-year-old volunteer in the Resistance, lobbed a grenade through the shattered window of a Warsaw apartment block onto some German soldiers running below. 'I felt I had come of age. I was a soldier and I'd just tried to kill some of our enemies'. The Warsaw Uprising lasted for 63 days: Himmler described it as 'the worst street fighting since Stalingrad'. Yet for the most part the insurgents were poorly equipped local men and teenagers - some of them were even younger than Andrew. Over that summer Andrew faced danger at every moment, both above and below ground as the Poles took to the city's sewers to creep beneath the German lines during lulls in the fierce counterattacks. Wounded in a fire fight the day after his sixteenth birthday and unable to face another visit to the sewers, he was captured as he lay in a makeshift cellar hospital wondering whether he was about to be shot or saved. Here he learned a lesson: there were decent Germans as well as bad. From one of the most harrowing episodes of the Second World War, this is an extraordinary tale of survival and defiance recounted by one of the few remaining veterans of Poland's bravest summer. Andrew Borowiec dedicates this book to all the Warsaw boys, 'especially those who never grew up'. Andrew Borowiec was born at Lodz in Poland in 1928. At fifteen he joined the Home Army, the main Polish resistance during the Second World War, and fought in the ill-fated Warsaw Uprising. After the war he left Poland and attended Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He lives in Cyprus with his English wife Juliet.
Unplanned Odyssey
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Author : Elisabeth H. Wilson
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-03-04
Unplanned Odyssey written by Elisabeth H. Wilson and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-04 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Elisabeth, known as Liesje , was born in Indonesia when it was a Dutch colony. She came of age at the beginning of World War II, and when the Japanese invaded she was interned. She escaped from the Japanese concentration camp, a decision that put her into survival mode for the next five years. This is her account of her youth, of her life as a concentration camp escapee under the Japanese occupation, of her clandestine union with a noble Japanese military officer - a Samurai, of her subsequent journey to war-devastated Japan, and her life there after wards.
Scratches On A Prison Wall
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Author : Luba Komar
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009
Scratches On A Prison Wall written by Luba Komar and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In this gripping memoir of a young Ukrainian woman's encounter with Communism and Nazism, Luba Komar experiences imprisonment, torture, death row, violence, escape, resistance, and, finally, flight to the West. Throughout, Luba retains her dignity and manifests a quiet heroism-convincingly demonstrating that totalitarianism is ultimately powerless in the face of individuals with the spiritual courage to speak the truth." -Alexander J. Motyl, Rutgers University-Newark, Author of Who Killed Andrei Warhol Ukraine is suffering under Soviet domination in 1940 as World War II begins. Luba Komar, a politically active student at a Ukrainian university, finds herself whisked away in the middle of the night by the Soviet Secret Police. She is tortured, imprisoned and then sentenced to death in a secret Soviet trial. Fortunately, her death sentence is commuted to exile. With other prisoners, she's loaded onto a train headed to the dreaded Siberian concentration camps. Luckily, Luba never reaches Siberia. As Nazi bombers approach overhead, the Soviets divert the train to another prison. There, the inmates courageously stage a prison break, risking their lives. Luba is witness to the dramatic events that shaped Ukrainian and Soviet history both during and after WWII. In recording her ordeal, she brings to life the stories of her fellow prisoners, and recounts her eventual escape to the West. Scratches on a Prison Wall is a powerful testament to its author and the times in which she lived.