Barbed Wire Between Us
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Barbed Wire Between Us
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Author : Derek Round
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002-07-15
Barbed Wire Between Us written by Derek Round and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-07-15 with British categories.
Kenelm Digby and Mutal Fielder met on a P and O liner returning to the Far East from England on the eve of the Second World War. As a 21-year-old undergraduate, Kenelm had made headlines when he took part in the notorious 1933 'King and Country' debate at the Oxford Union. Now he was returning to Kuching as legal adviser to Sir Vyner Brooke, last of the legendary White Rajahs of Sarawak. Mutal, who had trained as a ballet dancer in London and Paris, was on her way back to Hong Kong where she and her parents enjoyed a life of privilege and comfort, waited on by Chinese servants in their home on The Peak, then the exclusive preserve of the upper ranks of the British expatriate community. The young couple's shipboard romance led to their engagement in Singapore, celebrated with champagne at Raffles Hotel. But their idyllic world soon came crashing around them when the Japanese invaded Hong Kong and Sarawak at Christmas 1941. Kenelm spent the next three and a half years interned in Kuching. Mutal, with her parents, spent the war in the humiliating and squalid conditions at Stanley Internment Camp, separated from her fianc by barbed wire and the South China Sea. Constantly hungry and often sick, she watched friends die, carried to lonely graves in makeshift coffins. But her courage and resourcefulness helped her to obtain desperately needed food for herself and her ailing parents. She survived to be reunited with Kenelm after the war and the couple eventually made their home in New Zealand. Derek Round spent much of his 20 year career as a foreign correspondent in Hong Kong where he was bureau chief of Reuters news agency and later Asia correspondent of the New Zealand Press Association. He and his family lived in Stonycroft, the old colonial mansion on The Peak which had once been the home of Mutal Digby and her parents. Earlier, as Reuters bureau chief in Singapore he also covered Sarawak and was a correspondent in Vietnam during the war. He was later NZPA's political editor and Fleet Street-based chief European correspondent before returning to Wellington as Editor of NZPA. He lives in Christchurch where he began his career in journalism on the Star-Sun.
A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire
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Author : Andrea Newman
language : en
Publisher: Profile Books
Release Date : 2010-09-02
A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire written by Andrea Newman and has been published by Profile Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-02 with Fiction categories.
Peter Manson's apparently successful life is turned upside down when his beloved teenage daughter Prue reveals she's pregnant by her teacher, Gavin Sorenson. The very heart of the family is threatened as Peter has an intuitive sense that Gavin is on a personal quest for revenge. As Peter becomes consumed by anxiety for his daughter, hatred of his son in law and lust for his secretary, his relationship with his wife, Cassie, becomes increasingly distant. With Peter's marriage at breaking point and facing financial ruin, it's only a matter of time before secrets from the past return to haunt their lives. Famously controversial, the 1970s TV adaptation of A Bouquet of Barbed Wire was watched by 26 million people. ITV's new version is written by Guy Andrews (Lost in Austen, Prime Suspect) and will star Trevor Eve, Hermione Norris and Imogen Poots.
Barbed Wire
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Author : Reviel Netz
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2009-11-10
Barbed Wire written by Reviel Netz and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-10 with History categories.
The history of animals and humans as seen through barbed wire.
Barbed Wire And Barbless Wire Strand From Argentina
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Author : United States International Trade Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Barbed Wire And Barbless Wire Strand From Argentina written by United States International Trade Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Barbed wire categories.
Barbed Wire And Barbless Wire Strand From Argentina Brazil And Poland
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Author : United States International Trade Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
Barbed Wire And Barbless Wire Strand From Argentina Brazil And Poland written by United States International Trade Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Barbed wire categories.
Official Gazette Of The United States Patent Office
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Author : USA Patent Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Official Gazette Of The United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with categories.
Behind Barbed Wire
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Author : Deborah G. Lindsay
language : en
Publisher: Universal-Publishers
Release Date : 2020
Behind Barbed Wire written by Deborah G. Lindsay and has been published by Universal-Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Most people associate concentration camps with Nazi Germany. Behind Barbed Wire examines how these notorious World War II camps actually reflected a previous use of the system, a system that began almost a century earlier. In truth, Adolf Hitler had studied the American Indian Reservations as he plotted his regime's attack on European Jews and other minorities. Remarkably, in the years between the reservations and the Nazi camps, the United States, along with several other Western powers, implemented concentration camps throughout the globe, each instance employing more and more barbaric measures with harsher and harsher outcomes. Behind Barbed Wire explains how these nations dubiously justified camp operations by citing military counterinsurgency tactics, containment policies, and simply the ability to prosecute war more easily. This brief history addresses the subliminal reasons for relocating hundreds of thousands of civilians, why the system became so prevalent, and how concentration camps existed under the cover of armed conflict. It argues that, most often, camps can be facilitated only under the guise of war. Anyone with an interest in military history, World War II, concentration camps, and the plight of the Jews will discover how all these topics converge into a compelling story of war, bigotry, and military might. Behind Barbed Wire also sheds light on the concentration camp systems that have been employed since the fall of the Nazi dictatorship. With current geopolitical issues focusing on elitism, xenophobia, deplorables, terrorism, and military necessity, this book offers some understanding about the unintended consequences of policy.
Barbed Wire
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Author : Joanne S. Liu
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Barbed Wire written by Joanne S. Liu and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
How could an ordinary fence shape a nation's history? Before the 1870s, much of the American West was an uninterrupted expanse of plains, where native tribes followed buffalo herds for hundreds of miles and cowboys ran cattle wherever water and grass led them. After the Homestead Act of 1862, settlers pouring into the West to stake their claims found that farming was not easy in cattle country, where the Law of the Open Range dictated that the needs of the herds-and their owners-came first. Then, seemingly overnight, everything changed. The invention and mass production of barbed wire made it possible for homesteaders to fence off millions of acres, creating a violent clash of cultures. In this engaging history, the struggles of cattlemen, farmers, Indians, inventors, and outlaws are brought to life for history buffs and curious readers alike. Enhanced by historic photos, maps, and a handy chronology, Barbed Wire: The Fence That Changed the West reveals the fascinating account of how a simple twist of wire transformed a country's landscape and ushered in a new way of life.
Barbed Wire And Barbless Wire Strand From Argentina Inv 731 Ta 208 Second Review
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language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
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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