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Sacrifice Captivity Escape
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Author : Peter Jackson
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2013-01-19
Sacrifice Captivity Escape written by Peter Jackson and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This powerful memoir of a WWII POW recounts his incredible journey from joining the British Army to life as a prisoner of the Imperial Japanese military. Peter Jackson was young and recently married when he was drafted into the British Army at the start of World War II. He was sent to Singapore just as the city was being evacuated, and within days he was taken prisoner by the Imperial Japanese Army. Peter was one of the very few to survive the hardship, illnesses and brutality that followed. Like so many he was forced into labor, first in Singapore and then on the infamous Thai-Burma railway. But while there, he remarkably escaped with seven other soldiers. When recaptured, he was treated harshly. Jackson’s memoir brings to life both the characters of his comrades and the Japanese soldiers and guards he encountered. Though the experience was truly harrowing, and many of his fellow prisoners despaired at losing years of their young lives, Jackson maintained a sense of hope that they would one day return home
Life As A Pow
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Author : John F. Wukovits
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Life As A Pow written by John F. Wukovits and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Describes what it was like to be an American prisoner of war held by the Germans or Japanese during World War II, discussing the physical conditions, emotional turmoil, and difficult transition to freedom after harsh imprisonment.
Pow
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Author : Mo Yan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Pow written by Mo Yan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with China categories.
[In this novel by the 2012 Nobel Laureate in Literature], "a benign old monk listens to a prospective novice's tale of depravity, violence and carnivorous excess while a nice little family drama--in which nearly everyone dies--unfurls ... As his dual narratives merge and feather into one another, each informing and illuminating the other, Mo Yan probes the character and lifestyle of modern China."--Publisher's description.
Pow
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Author : Robert Cotterell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Pow written by Robert Cotterell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Prisoners of war categories.
This book depicts the last year of Hitler's Third Reich as it was seen through the eyes of a prisoner of war. From the 27th of May in1944 the experiences of this POW are vividly described. You will share the experiences of a "Kriegie" as he lives in three different POW camps and spends days on the roads fleeing the advance of Russian forces in the latter days of the war, right down to liberation by Patton's forces in those final weeks of World War II.
You Ll Die In Singapore
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Author : Charles McCormac
language : en
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Release Date : 2015-12-01
You Ll Die In Singapore written by Charles McCormac and has been published by Monsoon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-12-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Weakened by hunger, thirst and ill-treatment, author Charles McCormac, then a World War Two prisoner-of-war in Japanese-occupied Singapore, knew that if he did not escape he would die. With sixteen others he broke out of Pasir Panjang camp and began an epic two-thousand-mile escape from the island of Singapore, through the jungles of Indonesia to Australia. With no compass and no map, and only the goodwill of villagers and their own wits to rely on, the British and Australian POWs’ escape took a staggering five months and only two out of the original seventeen men survived. You’ll Die in Singapore is Charles McCormac’s compelling true account of one of the most horrifying and amazing escapes in World War Two. It is a story of courage, endurance and compassion, and makes for a very gripping read.
Prisoners Of The Empire
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Author : Sarah Kovner
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Prisoners Of The Empire written by Sarah Kovner and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with History categories.
A pathbreaking account of World War II POW camps, challenging the longstanding belief that the Japanese Empire systematically mistreated Allied prisoners. In only five months, from the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 to the fall of Corregidor in May 1942, the Japanese Empire took prisoner more than 140,000 Allied servicemen and 130,000 civilians from a dozen different countries. From Manchuria to Java, Burma to New Guinea, the Japanese army hastily set up over seven hundred camps to imprison these unfortunates. In the chaos, 40 percent of American POWs did not survive. More Australians died in captivity than were killed in combat. Sarah Kovner offers the first portrait of detention in the Pacific theater that explains why so many suffered. She follows Allied servicemen in Singapore and the Philippines transported to Japan on “hellships” and singled out for hard labor, but also describes the experience of guards and camp commanders, who were completely unprepared for the task. Much of the worst treatment resulted from a lack of planning, poor training, and bureaucratic incoherence rather than an established policy of debasing and tormenting prisoners. The struggle of POWs tended to be greatest where Tokyo exercised the least control, and many were killed by Allied bombs and torpedoes rather than deliberate mistreatment. By going beyond the horrific accounts of captivity to actually explain why inmates were neglected and abused, Prisoners of the Empire contributes to ongoing debates over POW treatment across myriad war zones, even to the present day.
A Story Of The Fifth Longest Hold Pow In Us History
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Author : Ray Vohden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
A Story Of The Fifth Longest Hold Pow In Us History written by Ray Vohden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Pow 921
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Author : Mike Holt
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-02-03
Pow 921 written by Mike Holt and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-03 with categories.
POW 921 tells the story of an Australian Digger captured in Singapore, 1942. He spends a year in Changi as a slave laborer for the Japanese before being sent by train to the Burma Railway in Thailand. Later he is shipped to Japan where he is put to work mining coal for Mitsui. You will be right there as he and his fellow POW's suffer the terrible torture, hunger, and other indignities meted out by their Japanese captors, knowing that they could die any time. Finally, they are saved by the Nagasaki atomic bomb. What happens after that earth-shaking event will surprise and delight you.
Behind The Fence
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Author : Les Chater
language : en
Publisher: St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub.
Release Date : 2001-01-01
Behind The Fence written by Les Chater and has been published by St. Catharines, Ont. : Vanwell Pub. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 - Prisonniers et prisons des Japonais categories.
"Les Chater was captured early in 1942, when the Japanese invaded Singapore and Java. His wife and small son escaped on an American troop ship and did not hear any news of Les for the next 18 months. He spent the rest of the war in POW camps in Semplak, Java and in Mitsushima and Kanose in Japan. His secret, daily record in four palm-sized booklets was an ongoing challenge, and a small defiance. Every death and its cause is noted in these diaries. Every meal, the activities in the camp, the personalities of guard and officials are described. The Japanese civilians, often little better off than the prisoners near the end, are portrayed as friendly, cheerful and respectful people. Although this meticulous detail had no purpose other than as a chronicle, the diaries became, after the was an accurate and useful account of the treatment of POWs. Chater also recorded names and vital information of his fellow POWs, reproduced here in lists of America, British, and Chinese prisoners held in the camps with him in Semplak, Java, and Mitsushima and Kanose Camps in Japan. These diaries were submitted as evidence in the Tokyo War Crimes Trials in 1947"--Page 4 of cover.
Operation Thunderhead
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Author : Kevin Dockery
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2008-11-04
Operation Thunderhead written by Kevin Dockery and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-04 with History categories.
The incredible true story of a top secret mission to resuce POWs in Vietnam. In the last year of the Vietnam conflict, even as American troops were leaving for home, there were still those fighting for their lives: prisoners of war being held in the Communist north. There were two operations launched to rescue the POWs. One—the legendary Son Tay Raid—was revealed to the public. The other was classified as Top Secret. This is the incredible true story of that almost-forgotten mission... Among the personnel recruited for Operation Thunderhad was a select group of operators from both the U.S. Navy SEALs and the Underwater Demolition Teams who knew that if they were captured, they would be killed, tortured, or simply disappear. They went in anyway. Here, for the first time, the details of Operation Thunderhead are revealed—the mission, the materials, and the men who put their lives on the line to save their brothers in arms.