Barbed Wire And Rice
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Barbed Wire And Rice
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Author : James H. Cowan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Barbed Wire And Rice written by James H. Cowan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Prisoners of war categories.
Barbed Wire And Rice
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Author : Bishop D. McKendree
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016
Barbed Wire And Rice written by Bishop D. McKendree and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with categories.
Barbed Wire And Rice
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Author : Bishop Davis McKendree
language : en
Publisher: East Asia Program; Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1995
Barbed Wire And Rice written by Bishop Davis McKendree and has been published by East Asia Program; Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
Rice Men And Barbed Wire
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Author : Arnold A. Bocksel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Rice Men And Barbed Wire written by Arnold A. Bocksel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
So Long For Now
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Author : Jerry L. Rogers
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2017-03-09
So Long For Now written by Jerry L. Rogers 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 2017-03-09 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteenth birthday. Write home often, the navy told sailors like Elden, thinking it would keep up morale among sailors and those waiting for them stateside. But they were told not to write anything about where they were, where they had been, where they were going, what they were doing, or even what the weather was like. Spies were presumed everywhere, and loose lips could sink ships. Before a sailor’s letter could be sealed and sent, a censor read it and with a razor blade cut out words that told too much. So Long for Now reconstructs the lost world of a sailor’s daily life in World War II, piecing together letters from Elden’s family in Vega, Texas, and from his girlfriend, the untold stories behind Elden’s own letters, and the context of the war itself. Historian Jerry L. Rogers delves past censored letters limited to small talk and local gossip to conjure the danger, excitement, boredom, and sacrifices that sailors in the Pacific theater endured. He follows Elden from enlistment in the navy through every battle the USS Franklin saw. Flight deck crashes, kamikaze hits, and tensions and alliances aboard ship all built to the unprecedented chaos and casualties of the Japanese air attack on March 19. “So long for now,” Elden signed off—never “Goodbye.” This moving work poignantly confronts the horrors of war, giving voice to a young sailor, the country he served, the family and friends he left behind, and the hope that has sustained them.
Behind The Barbed Wire
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Author : Chester M. Biggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Behind The Barbed Wire written by Chester M. Biggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
On December 8, 1941, Japanese troops methodically took over the U.S. Marine guard posts at Peiping and Tientsin, causing both to surrender. Imprisoned first at Woosung and then at Kiangwan in China, the men were forced to laboriously construct a replica of Mount Fujiyama. It soon became apparent that their mountain was to be used as a rifle range. In 1945 the author was among those transferred to the coal mining camp at Uteshinai in Japan. Recounted here are descriptions of the living and working conditions at the prison camps in China, the treatment of American prisoners by their Japanese captors, and how the POWs were able to hold themselves together.
Fantasy Cooking Behind Barbed Wire
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Author : Edith Peer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Fantasy Cooking Behind Barbed Wire written by Edith Peer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Cooking, European categories.
Stanley
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Author : Jean Gittins
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 1982-12-01
Stanley written by Jean Gittins and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1982-12-01 with History categories.
This is a story of one courageous woman's fight against the vicissitudes, brutality and starvation that faced civilians incarcerated in the infamous Stanley prison, by the Japanese, in Hong Kong during World War II. The story she tells is absolutely fascinating providing, as it does, an essential fragment of Hong Kong's social history. Written simply, without any obnoxious purple passages or journalese, this is a true story of survival, absorbing in its simplicity and details of the very essence of staying alive – growing vegetables in such stark conditions – and sane. A book that will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers.
The Barbed Wire University
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Author : Midge Gillies
language : en
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Release Date : 2011-05-25
The Barbed Wire University written by Midge Gillies and has been published by Quarto Publishing Group USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-25 with History categories.
“A moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured . . . a riveting collection of stories.” —The Guardian Feature films like The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But, as Midge Gillies shows in this groundbreaking work of social history, the true experiences of nearly half a million Allied servicemen held captive during the Second World War were nothing like the Hollywood myth—and infinitely more extraordinary. The real lives of POWs saw them respond to the tedium of a German stalag or the brutality of a Japanese camp with the most amazing ingenuity and creativity. They staged glittering shows, concerts and elaborate sporting fixtures, made exquisite ornaments—even, amid the terrible privations of the Thailand-Burma railway, improvised daring surgical techniques to save their fellow men’s lives. Whatever skills or hobbies they took with them to captivity they managed to continue and adapt—to the extent of laying out a 9-hole golf course between the huts of one German camp. They took up crafts and pastimes using materials they found around them: even the string from a Red Cross food parcel was used to make cricket balls, football nets and wigs for theatrical performances. Men studied, attended lectures, learned languages, sat for qualifications and exams, on such a scale that one camp was nicknamed “The Barbed-Wire University.” Drawing on letters home, diaries and interviews with redoubtable survivors now into their nineties, Midge Gillies recreates the daily lives of a truly remarkable group of men. “Astonishing tales of improvisation, ingenuity and courage.” —The Spectator
Commerce Reports
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
Commerce Reports written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1916 with Consular reports categories.