Six Bells Off Java
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Six Bells Off Java
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Author : William H. McDougall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Six Bells Off Java written by William H. McDougall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with Journalists categories.
"In 1939 the United Press sent McDougall to Shanghai, China, as a war correspondent. Always hoping to get the latest story, he delayed too long when the Japanese invaded China and was taken prisoner. Chinese friends helped him escape to Java where he continued to file stories until it, too, fell. He escaped on an ill-fated Dutch ship that was sunk in the Indian Ocean. Only three lifeboats had been launched for the 240 passengers and crew, and McDougall found himself in the water with only a life jacket. A strong swimmer, he reached one of the overloaded lifeboats but was refused admittance. For hours he drifted. In his desperation he turned to the Catholic faith of his youth and learned for the first time, he later reported, what prayer really is. As he drifted and prayed, he resolved to "do something for Jesus." Eventually one of the other lifeboats rescued him. Prison camp awaited him when the boat reached Sumatra, but he survived what then appeared as a lesser ordeal and returned home after the war. He wrote two books detailing his wartime experiences: Six Bells Off Java (1948) and By Eastern Windows (1949)."--From biographical sketch of William Henry McDougall on Utah government website History To Go.
Six Bells Off Java
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Author : William H. McDougall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1983
Six Bells Off Java written by William H. McDougall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983 with Prisoners of war categories.
Six Bells Off Java
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Author : William H. McDougall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Six Bells Off Java written by William H. McDougall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Prisoners of war categories.
In The Highest Degree Tragic
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Author : Donald M. Kehn
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-08-01
In The Highest Degree Tragic written by Donald M. Kehn and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-01 with History categories.
In the Highest Degree Tragic tells the heroic story of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet’s sacrifice defending the Dutch East Indies from the Japanese in the first three months of the Pacific War. Donald M. Kehn Jr.’s comprehensive narrative history of the operations involving multiple ships and thousands of men dramatically depicts the chaotic nature of these battles. His research has uncovered evidence of communications failures, vessels sinking hundreds of miles from where they had been reported lost, and entire complements of men simply disappearing off the face of the earth. Kehn notes that much of the fleet went down with guns blazing and flag flying, highlighting, where many others have failed to do so, the political and strategic reasons for the fleet’s deployment to the region in the first place. In the Highest Degree Tragic rectifies the historical record, showcasing how brave yet all-too-human sailors and officers carried out their harrowing tasks. Containing rare first-person accounts and anecdotes, from the highest command echelons down to the lowest enlisted personnel, Kehn’s book is the most comprehensive and exhaustive study to date of this important part of American involvement in World War II.
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.
A Blue Sea Of Blood
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Author : Donald M. Kehn
language : en
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Release Date : 2009-01-15
A Blue Sea Of Blood written by Donald M. Kehn 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 2009-01-15 with History categories.
On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall—under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java—split off from the USS Whipple and the tanker Pecos and was never seen again by Allied forces. Despite the later discovery of bodies identified as Edsall crew members near a remote airfield on the coast of Celebes, what happened to the ship remains a matter of mystery and, perhaps, deliberate obfuscation. This book explores the many puzzling facets of the Edsall’s disappearance in order to finally tell the full story of the fate of the vessel and her crew. Based on exhaustive research of the historical record—including newly deciphered Japanese documents and previously unrevealed material from the crew’s family members—A Blue Sea of Blood offers a painstaking reconstruction of the ship’s history. The book investigates not only the Edsall’s mysterious final action, but also her wide-ranging pre-war career and the curious uses to which her story was put—generally under false pretenses—first by the pre-war US Navy and then by the Japanese wartime propaganda machine. And finally, military historian Donald Kehn considers the circumstances surrounding the curious obscurity of the Edsall’s heroic service and final battle in American histories. Redressing six decades of official indifference, Kehn’s account recovers a significant chapter missing from the history of World War II—and tells a long-overdue story of courage and tragic loss.
The Sound Of Hope
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Author : Kellie D. Brown
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2020-06-05
The Sound Of Hope written by Kellie D. Brown and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-05 with Social Science categories.
Since ancient times, music has demonstrated the incomparable ability to touch and resonate with the human spirit as a tool for communication, emotional expression, and as a medium of cultural identity. During World War II, Nazi leadership recognized the power of music and chose to harness it with malevolence, using its power to push their own agenda and systematically stripping it away from the Jewish people and other populations they sought to disempower. But music also emerged as a counterpoint to this hate, withstanding Nazi attempts to exploit or silence it. Artistic expression triumphed under oppressive regimes elsewhere as well, including the horrific siege of Leningrad and in Japanese internment camps in the Pacific. The oppressed stubbornly clung to music, wherever and however they could, to preserve their culture, to uplift the human spirit and to triumph over oppression, even amid incredible tragedy and suffering. This volume draws together the musical connections and individual stories from this tragic time through scholarly literature, diaries, letters, memoirs, compositions, and art pieces. Collectively, they bear witness to the power of music and offer a reminder to humanity of the imperative each faces to not only remember, but to prevent another such cataclysm.
The Reader S Digest
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Author : De Witt Wallace
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
The Reader S Digest written by De Witt Wallace and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Periodicals categories.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1948
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1948 with American literature categories.
Carry On Mr Bowditch
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Author : Jean Lee Latham
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2003
Carry On Mr Bowditch written by Jean Lee Latham and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A fictionalized biography of the mathematician and astronomer who realized his childhood desire to become a ship's captain and authored The American Practical Navigator.