Last Ship From Rangoon
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Last Ship From Rangoon
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Author : John Van Wyck Gould
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2015-08-04
Last Ship From Rangoon written by John Van Wyck Gould and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-04 with Fiction categories.
On March 7, 1942, in the midst of WWII, a British merchant ship fled Burma (now Myanmar) only minutes ahead of the invading Japanese army. This vessel, the last ship from Rangoon, acts as the starting point for an engrossing account of escape, suspense, hope and courage. In this period largely undocumented by American literature, fear and desperation invade the lives of British Merchant seamen as violence threatens their welfare, their ships, and their livelihoods. Last Ship from Rangoon recounts a harrowing tale of 132 seamens arduous efforts to return to England; imprisoned by the Senegalese, these men must flee from an inescapable French prison and hack their way through dense jungle toward the English colony of Gambia. Based upon the story of a retired British Merchant Marine seaman, whom he met whilst traveling in South East Asia, John Van Wyck Gould has crafted a tale of adventure, courage, hardship, and survival.
Ayya S Accounts
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Author : Anand Pandian
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2014-03-17
Ayya S Accounts written by Anand Pandian and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-17 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
“An absorbing exploration of one man’s life” —as an orphan, refugee, shopkeeper, and grandfather—through a century of upheaval in India (Library Journal). Born in colonial India into a despised caste of former tree climbers, Ayya lost his mother as a child and came of age in a small town in lowland Burma. Forced to flee at the outbreak of World War II, he made a treacherous 1,700-mile journey by foot, boat, bullock cart, and rail back to southern India. Becoming a successful fruit merchant, Ayya educated and eventually settled many of his descendants in the United States. Luck, nerve, subterfuge, and sorrow all have their place along the precarious route of his advancement. Emerging out of tales told to his American grandson, Ayya’s Accounts embodies a simple faith—that the story of a place as large and complex as modern India can be told through the life of a single individual. “At once a mesmerizing memoir of an ordinary man’s life and an anthropologist’s revealing examination of the astounding changes experienced by persons and families . . . impossible to put down.” —South Asia “No one deemed a superhero by the movies has had a more interesting life with such extraordinary sweep.” —Scott Simon, NPR Weekend Edition
Burma Memories Of Wwii
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Author : Sandra Campagnac-Carney
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2014-09-08
Burma Memories Of Wwii written by Sandra Campagnac-Carney and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-08 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In this book are the stories of mainly the Anglo-Burmese people and some others caught up in Burma, WWII. Abandoned by the tens of thousands, as the British fled from the oncoming Japanese invasion, many attempted to trek across to India, with some falling by the wayside, while others were left to cope under Japanese rule.
Transactions
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Author : Royal Institution of Naval Architects
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1892
Transactions written by Royal Institution of Naval Architects and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1892 with Naval architecture categories.
A Million Died
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Author : Alfred Wagg
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
A Million Died written by Alfred Wagg and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Burma To Japan With Azad Hind
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Author : Air Commodore Ramesh S Benegal
language : en
Publisher: Lancer Publishers LLC
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Burma To Japan With Azad Hind written by Air Commodore Ramesh S Benegal and has been published by Lancer Publishers LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
“It all started on 7 December 1941, when Japan unleashed its surprise attack on a place called Pearl Harbor. To think that something that was happening a thousand miles away would affect the lives of so many people, including me, was unimaginable then. But it did touch my life. In fact it dictated my whole future.” Ramesh Benegal, recipient of the Maha Vir Chakra, was born in Burma and was seventeen when the Japanese captured British-occupied Burma. He tells this extraordinary, first-person story of his career with the Indian National Army in Burma and Japan in the years from 1941 to 1945. A series of chances lead the young Ramesh to enrol for the selection of cadets to be sent to Japan for military training at the initiative of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. We follow his journeys on land, sea and air as the young voice narrates in sharp and often visceral detail the experience of travelling from Burma to Thailand, Singapore and Japan. The years are long and hard and alternate between deprivation and plenty and between disaster and hope—before the turning point of the War changes everything. What opens before us is not only a war memoir but the transformation of a boy as he steeps himself in the cultures of food, behaviour, customs and the ethnic aspirations of the countries he finds himself in.
Don T Tell My Mother
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Author : Peter Duggan-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2000-08-11
Don T Tell My Mother written by Peter Duggan-Smith and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-08-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Peter Duggan-Smith was born in 1916 to an actress mother. As she was always on the move he was brought up by two maiden aunts until he was accepted to train for a sea-going career on the cadet ship H.M.S. Conway. It was on the last of several voyages to New Zealand as a Merchant Navy apprentice that his life of adventure began — though it did not always turn out as he had planned! The one constant in Peter's life was his love of flying; by the end of his final flight in Cambodia in 1974, he had racked up more than 17,000 flying hours--in no less than 70 types of piston-engine aircraft. Peter was small in stature, but a giant among adventurers, with a rare ability to take the reader along with him through his many escapades. Raymond Eagle, FSA Scot., is a historian with a particular interest in Scottish and military history. His early years were spent in Eastleigh, Hampshire where, at the age of ten, he had a grandstand view of the Battle of Britain. This gave him a life-long interest in aviation and a great respect for his boyhood heroes, the aircrews of the RAF and Dominion air forces. In 1949 he joined the British army as a national serviceman and was commissioned in the Royal Artillery, spending two years in Hong Kong before continuing in the Territorial Army (Militia). Arriving in Canada in March 1967 with his wife and two young sons, he worked for twenty years in executive positions with various medical charities, writing purely as a hobby. Articles published included such areas as history, environment, health and travel. In November 1991, Eagle's first book was published in Scotland by Lochar Publishing of Moffat, Seton Gordon — The Life and Times of a Highland Gentleman, a biography of the well-known Scottish naturalist, historian and photographer, who wrote 27 books on the Highlands and Hebrides.
Songs Of The Survivors
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Author : Yvonne Vaz Ezdani
language : en
Publisher: Goa1556
Release Date : 2007
Songs Of The Survivors written by Yvonne Vaz Ezdani and has been published by Goa1556 this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Burma categories.
Published in November 2007 by Frederick Noronha on behalf of Goa,1556, (http://goa1556.goa-india.org), Stories of World War II continue to absorb the interest of the readers, and there are many books on the subject. In 1942, Goa was a neutral Portuguese colony in western India, and largely unaffected by the war. But there were many Goans living in Burma when the first surprise bombings of Rangoon by Japanese planes took place. This book tells the story of Goans in the Burma of those days. It is a collection of stories based on the horrors of the Japanese invasion in Burma between 1942 and 1945, and the subsequent exodus of thousands of refugees who fled to India.
I For An Eye
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Author : Babu Rajendran
language : en
Publisher: Notion Press
Release Date : 2016-04-01
I For An Eye written by Babu Rajendran and has been published by Notion Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Are you planning to study medicine? Or, are you presently a student of medicine or are you practicing or teaching it? Then, this book will be expedient as it takes a lighthearted look into the life and times of the author through and out of medical school. This book offers a peep into the life and times of a medical practitioner in general and an Ophthalmologist in particular, along with and associated incidents that happened in the fifty years of this doctor?s career. Even nonmedical people interested in day-to-day medical issues will find this book interesting, with several incidents that they may be able to relate to, since medical jargon has been used to the minimum.
The Evacuation Of Civilians From Burma
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Author : Michael D. Leigh
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-04-24
The Evacuation Of Civilians From Burma written by Michael D. Leigh and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-24 with History categories.
The string of military defeats during 1942 marked the end of British hegemony in Southeast Asia, finally destroying the myth of British imperial invincibility. The Japanese attack on Burma led to a hurried and often poorly organized evacuation of Indian and European civilians from the country. The evacuation was a public humiliation for the British and marked the end of their role in Burma. The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma investigates the social and political background to the evacuation, and the consequences of its failure. Utilizing unpublished letters, diaries, memoirs and official reports, Michael Leigh provides the first comprehensive account of the evacuation, analyzing its source in the structures of colonial society, fractured race relations and in the turbulent politics of colonial Burma.