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Prisoners Of War Prisoners Of Peace
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Author : Barbara Hately-Broad
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2005-02-01
Prisoners Of War Prisoners Of Peace written by Barbara Hately-Broad and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-02-01 with History categories.
Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different. Their history, both during and after the War, has largely been ignored in the grand narratives of the conflict. This collection brings together new scholarship, largely based on sources from previously unavailable Eastern European or Japanese archives. Authors highlight a number of important comparatives. Whereas for the British and Americans held by the Germans and Japanese, the end of the war meant a swift repatriation and demobilization, for the Germans, it heralded the beginning of an imprisonment that, for some, lasted until 1956. These and many more moving stories are revealed here for the first time.
Prisoners Of The Empire
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Author : Sarah Kovner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Prisoners Of The Empire written by Sarah Kovner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with categories.
Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
Prisoner Of War And Peace
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Author : Nick Mustacchia
language : en
Publisher: Pentland Press (NC)
Release Date : 1999
Prisoner Of War And Peace written by Nick Mustacchia and has been published by Pentland Press (NC) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author recounts the horror and hope of his experiences as a prisoner of war in World War II Europe.
We Fight For Peace
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Author : Brian Dallas McKnight
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
We Fight For Peace written by Brian Dallas McKnight and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
At midnight on January 24, 1954, the last step was taken in the armistice to end the war in Korea. That night, the neutral Indian guards who had overseen the prisoner of war repatriation process abandoned their posts, leaving their charges to make their own decisions. The vast majority of men allowed to choose a new nation were Chinese and North Koreans who elected the path of freedom. There were smaller groups hoping that the communist bloc would give them a better life; among these men were twenty-one American soldiers and prisoners of war. "We Fight for Peace" tells their story. During the four months prior to the armistice, news had spread throughout the United States and the world that a group of twenty-three Americans was refusing repatriation. In the interim, two of the twenty-three soldiers had escaped. Once back behind American lines, the first voluntary repatriate, Edward Dickenson, was given celebrity treatment with the hope that this positive experience would entice the others to return to the United States. Just one more American POW, Claude Batchelor, chose repatriation. In the United States, Dickenson, who was being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center, was placed under arrest and charged with a variety of collaboration related crimes. Weeks later, Batchelor was similarly arrested. Over the course of the coming months, Dickenson and Batchelor, against the backdrop of Joseph McCarthy's Army Hearings, were prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. In the ensuing years, Dickenson and Batchelor, both of whom had voluntarily returned to the United States, watched from their jail cells as most of the remaining twenty-one Americans trickled back home, protected by the dishonorable discharges they received. Exhaustively researched and meticulously documented, "We Fight for Peace" is the first comprehensive scholarly work on this controversial event in international history.
Peace And Prisoners Of War
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Author : Nam Nhat Phan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-09-15
Peace And Prisoners Of War written by Nam Nhat Phan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-15 with categories.
American discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlefields, these were brutal times for America's South Vietnamese allies combined with a period of intense diplomatic negotiations conducted under the increasing reality that America had abandoned them. In Peace and Prisoners of War, written in "real-time" as events occurred, Phan Nhat Nam provides a unique window into the harsh combat that followed America's withdrawal and the hopelessness of South Vietnam's attempt to stave off an eventual communist victory. Few others could have written this book. Phan Nhat Nam saw the war for years as a combat soldier in one of South Vietnam's most respected airborne divisions, then as the country's most respected war reporter, and for fourteen years after the war as a prisoner in Hanoi's infamous "re-education" camps, including eight years in solitary confinement. In the war's aftermath anonymity became his fate both inside Vietnam and here in America. But now one of his important works is available, enhanced by an introduction by Senator James Webb, one of the most decorated Marines in the Vietnam War. Webb describes this revealing work as "an unvarnished observation frozen in time, devoid of spin or false retrospective wisdom." Phan's reporting makes clear the sense of doom that foretold the tragic events to come, on the battlefields and in the frustration of negotiating with an implacable enemy while abandoned by its foremost ally. Readers will find this book both enlightening and disturbing, its observations until now overlooked in most histories of the Vietnam War.
The Evacuation Of Singapore To The Prison Camps Of Sumatra
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Author : Judy Balcombe
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword Military
Release Date : 2023-12-30
The Evacuation Of Singapore To The Prison Camps Of Sumatra written by Judy Balcombe and has been published by Pen and Sword Military this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-12-30 with History categories.
The Evacuation of Singapore to the Prison Camps of Sumatra aims to describe the events prior to, during and after the Fall of Singapore and the ways in which former prisoners are remembered on Bangka Island today. It is the product of many years of detailed historical research, interviews with camp survivors and personal experiences discovering and locating the former Japanese civilian prison camp sites of Bangka Island and Southern Sumatra. Judy's aim has been to compile an accurate description of the fate of evacuees from Singapore who were bombed and killed in the South China Sea and Bangka Strait or imprisoned in harsh Japanese civilian prison camps. Many families have not known the fate of their relatives until contacting the author through the Muntok Peace Museum website http://muntokpeacemuseum.org. The Peace Museum was established by prisoners’ families in 2015. The author has also described her many visits to Bangka Island and Sumatra in detail so others may follow in her footsteps and know that their relatives who were imprisoned and died during WW2 are now remembered very respectfully in the small town of Muntok. Annual Memorial Services are held each February 16, attended by families and the Australian, New Zealand and British Embassies. All royalties to this book will be donated to the Muntok Red Cross in memory of the prisoners.
The Long Road Home
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Author : Vernon E. Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
The Long Road Home written by Vernon E. Davis 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.
The Long Road Home is a companion work to the recently published book on the prisoner of war experience in Southeast Asia-Honor Bound by Stuart I. Rochester and Frederick Kiley. The two books were prepared at the request of former Deputy Secretary of Defense William P. Clements, Jr. Some of the early research and drafts of a few chapters are the contribution of Wilber W Hoare, Jr., and Ernest H. Giusti, former JCS historians who helped initiate the project. Davis carried forward the research and writing to completion over a period of many years and is entitled to the fullest credit for production of the final text and documentation. This history of Washington's role in shaping prisoner of war policy during the Vietnam War reveals the difficult, often emotional, and vexing nature of a problem that engaged the attention of the highest officials of the U.S. government, including the president. It examines frictions and disagreements between the State and Defense Departments and within Defense itself as a sometimes conflicted organization struggled to cope with an imposing array of policy issues: efforts to ameliorate the brutal conditions to which the American captives were subjected; relations with families of prisoners in captivity; the proper mix of quiet diplomacy and aggressive publicity; and planning for the prisoners' return. At a pivotal juncture the Department of Defense exerted a major influence on overall policy through its insistence in 1969 that the government "Go Public" with information about the plight of prisoners held by the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. There is evidence that this powerful campaign contributed to the gradual improvement in the treatment of the prisoners and to their safe return in 1973. The detailed account of negotiations with the North Vietnamese for the withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam makes clear how important in all U.S. calculations was securing the release of the prisoners.
Prisoners Of War
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Author : Charles S. Gochman
language : en
Publisher: Free Press
Release Date : 1990
Prisoners Of War written by Charles S. Gochman and has been published by Free Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with International relations categories.
Prisoner Of Peace
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Author : Hans Gussmann
language : en
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Prisoner Of Peace written by Hans Gussmann and has been published by Xlibris Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with World War, 1939-1945 categories.
Hans Gussmann was a German soldier interned by the Allies for nearly three years after the end of World War II. The story of prisoners held by the Russians is well known, but the prisoners held by the other Allies have been forgotten. Prisoner of Peace is virtually an untold story of what occurred in those prison labor camps after the war. Prisoner of Peace is a true and at times humorous story based on the contents of Gussmann's prison notebooks and memoirs. Gussmann's story is not about the battles of combat, but rather the battles and struggles of everyday survival as a German POW laborer. He was drafted into the German Army without any political attachments, merely doing his duty for his country. Gussmann makes it clear up front that he was not a Nazi. Yet, he and thousands of other German soldiers captured during and after the war paid the price for the horrendous crimes committed on orders from Adolf Hitler. Today, Gussmann lives in the United States and is an American citizen.
Considerations On The Exchange Of Seamen Prisoners Of War
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1758
Considerations On The Exchange Of Seamen Prisoners Of War written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1758 with Anglo-French War, 1755-1763 categories.