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Banzai, You Bastards!

Jack Edwards,Jimmy Walter
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Author : Jack Edwards,Jimmy Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114018257

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The story of the hell-mine of Kinkaseki ranks with the "Bridge over the River Kwai" as one of the most appalling episodes of the war in the Far East. Yet until now it has been known only to a few. At Kinkaseki, on the island of Taiwan, Allied POWs were forced by the Japanese to slave underground, year after year, in conditions of extreme danger, subjected to savage floggings if weakness or illness prevented them from digging their required quota of copper ore. Starved, tortured, ravaged by dysentery, they died in hundreds. Written by one of the men who survived, who has since fought ceaselessly for compensation, "Banzai, You Bastards!" describes with moving simplicity the indomitable spirit of men who refused to be beaten into submission. An important first-hand document of history, it publishes for the first time a copy of the secret order from the Japanese High Command to massacre all POWs and 'leave no traces'. This order, known only to a select, secret committee of prisoners, which included the author, hung over them for nearly a year before the A Bombs and until they were released by the US Marines, after the surrender of the Japanese in September 1945. [This book] records one of the most terrible aspects of warfare. Its closing words "None of us should forget" have been choses for use on six War Memorials to date in Thailand, Singapore, New Zealand and Yeovilton, England. -- Back jacket cover

Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century

Philip Towle,Nobuko Margaret Kosuge
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Author : Philip Towle,Nobuko Margaret Kosuge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-04-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857711045

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Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century by Philip Towle,Nobuko Margaret Kosuge Pdf

After the horrors of World War II in Asia - not least the systematic appalling mistreatment of Allied prisoners-of-war by the Japanese military - few would have predicted that Britain's relationship with Japan would flourish into a booming partnership of economic interdependence by the start of the twenty-first century. This ambitious examination of Anglo-Japanese relations over the course of the 20th century charts the fascinating history of how both nations overcame many years of prejudice and bitter conflict to form a bond fused by financial, political and military cooperation. In the 1930s, many Japanese became convinced that their exports were being kept out of India by British tariffs and it was not until the 1980s that the British government fully accepted the futility of any protectionist impulse and encouraged Japanese companies to invest in Britain. Today, each country not only assists the other economically but also no longer blames the other for its own domestic problems. "Britain and Japan in the Twentieth Century" elucidates how both nations have struggled to achieve stability and harmony in their relations with each other in the face of contrasting cultural identities.

The 50s: The Story of a Decade

The New Yorker Magazine
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Author : The New Yorker Magazine
Publisher : Random House
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780679644828

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This engrossing anthology assembles classic New Yorker pieces from a complex era enshrined in the popular imagination as the decade of poodle skirts and Cold War paranoia—featuring contributions from Philip Roth, John Updike, Nadine Gordimer, and Adrienne Rich, along with fresh analysis of the 1950s by some of today’s finest writers. The New Yorker was there in real time, chronicling the tensions and innovations that lay beneath the era’s placid surface. In this thrilling volume, classic works of reportage, criticism, and fiction are complemented by new contributions from the magazine’s present all-star lineup of writers. The magazine’s commitment to overseas reporting flourished in the 1950s, leading to important dispatches from East Berlin, the Gaza Strip, and Cuba during the rise of Castro. Closer to home, the fight to break barriers and establish a new American identity led to both illuminating coverage, as in a portrait of Thurgood Marshall at an NAACP meeting in Atlanta, and trenchant commentary, as in E. B. White’s blistering critique of Senator Joe McCarthy. The arts scene is recalled in critical writing rarely reprinted, including Wolcott Gibbs on My Fair Lady, Anthony West on Invisible Man, and Philip Hamburger on Candid Camera. Also featured are great early works from Philip Roth and Nadine Gordimer, as well as startling poems by Theodore Roethke and Anne Sexton, among others. Completing the panoply are insightful and entertaining new pieces by present-day New Yorker contributors examining the 1950s through contemporary eyes. The result is a vital portrait of American culture as only one magazine in the world could do it. Including contributions by Elizabeth Bishop • Truman Capote • John Cheever • Roald Dahl • Janet Flanner • Nadine Gordimer • A. J. Liebling • Dwight Macdonald • Joseph Mitchell • Marianne Moore • Vladimir Nabokov • Sylvia Plath • V. S. Pritchett • Adrienne Rich • Lillian Ross • Philip Roth • Anne Sexton • James Thurber • John Updike • Eudora Welty • E. B. White • Edmund Wilson And featuring new perspectives by Jonathan Franzen • Malcolm Gladwell • Adam Gopnik • Elizabeth Kolbert • Jill Lepore • Rebecca Mead • Paul Muldoon • Evan Osnos • David Remnick Praise for The 50s “Superb: a gift that keeps on giving.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “[A] magnificent anthology.”—Literary Review

People, Places and Passions

Russell Davies
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Author : Russell Davies
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783162390

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It takes a different view of the history of Wales, examining a panorama of different emotions and experiences – laughter, happiness, fear, anger, adventure, lust, loneliness, anxiety – to give an entertaining and exciting new history to Wales. a wide range of sources are used to present the ambitions and anxieties which drove and destroyed Welsh people The book’s literary style and the fact that it follows earlier successful studies by the author should ensure an audience.

The New Breed

Andrew Geer
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Author : Andrew Geer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787207738

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The New Breed by Andrew Geer Pdf

As a Marine combat veteran and a successful writer of fiction and non-fiction, Andrew Geer was ideally suited to tell this story of the U.S. Marines in Korea. In preparing this book, which was first published in 1952, Geer had access to the complete file of Marine combat reports and was able to gather material at first hand as an active Marine field officer during the dreadful winter, spring and summer of 1950-51 in Korea. He interviewed 697 Marines individually in preparing this history. “Military history generally deals with campaigns; with the factors affecting the situation; with the decisions of higher commanders; and with an analysis of the results accomplished. The human reactions of the thousands of lesser actors are as a rule painted with a broad brush only. The details are usually left to the historical novel or quasi-historical novel. Yet the actual story is far more convincing than any fictional account. What Andrew Geer has done in The New Breed is to picture vividly the real-life, not fictional, Marine, as he fought the bitter battles of the Naktong, struggled with the mud flats and sea walls of Inchon, crushed the enemy barricades in Seoul, and cut his way through a Chinese army from the Chosin Reservoir to the sea. In telling this detailed story, however, Major Geer has not neglected the broad picture. The New Breed is a definite contribution to the history of the Korean War.”—OLIVER P. SMITH, Major-General, U.S. Marine Corps

Taiwan

Steven Crook
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Author : Steven Crook
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Taiwan
ISBN : 9781841623306

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From sword-wielding shamans to unique birds an in-depth guide to Taiwan s human and natural attractions."

The Spirit of America Party

Tom O’Donnell
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Author : Tom O’Donnell
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781426966484

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Fourteen chapters will touch on the decline and fall of the American Spirit. From the defeat of our war on drugs to the greatest military defeat ever visited upon American soil 9-1-1 While politicians danced on their party platform shouting we are the strongest nation on the face of the earth. The box cutter of terror was being sharpened in a cave in the Hindu Kush. An over medicated nation preoccupied with Academy award winners that failed to hear the giant steps of fire worshipers. Osama Bin Laden has taught the Moslem world that the United States is a paper tiger and our giant war ships can be sunk by a dinghy. A Nation who has lost touch with its roots and is ripe for Europeanization. Supreme court judges who want us to be ruled by The Hague. Communism has temporarily failed in the Soviet Union but has found a wet nurse in US liberalism. The media controls the mind of many and is a willing accomplice to the lies and charades of the demoncrat party. The American military is the last shred of American decency left and has more enemies in the USA than in the world. Religion has been downsized and replaced with Oscar worship. Abortion claims two victims. The mother and the child. Both are harmed by two villains. The politician and the butcher. Special interest groups have to be driven out of the senate auction house. The largest campaign contribution in any form should not be greater than one dollar. Housewives should have to approve the budget. The three biggest killers of the spirit of America are drugs, divorce and demoncrats. The CYA, the FIB, the State department and the Pentagon all need a make over. They all failed us on 911. The first casualty should be PC lawyers. We need wartime consulters. It is not Bush's job to get Bin Laden it is theirs. Anyone who thinks that this war will not last at least ten more years is living under false pretenses. Going to Iraq has given us a forward staging area for the invasion of Iran. A great strategic move. We bypassed all the minefields from the UN to Paris to Turkey to Saudi. Soon all who witnessed the greatness of the United States will be gone and the liars will rewrite history. This book will bring you home to a God Loving Nation of Dads and Moms who kept freedom alive and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Never forget you are a special breed. You are an American and the spirit of America is the great spirit. The red in the banner is for blood spilled for you and me by young people who gave up all their tomorrows so we could stand together and keep the vow. You will enjoy the New York 50's humor. You will get sentimental. You will get good flashbacks. You will see this country in the eyes of one who saw how great we were. Yet poor by monetary standards but rich in children and oneness in love. We were the servants yet we were kings. We were drug free. We tried to be better. We kept the vow. We served God and country in war and peace.

Hong Kong

Caroline Knowles,Douglas Harper
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Author : Caroline Knowles,Douglas Harper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226448589

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Hong Kong by Caroline Knowles,Douglas Harper Pdf

In 1997 the United Kingdom returned control of Hong Kong to China, ending the city’s status as one of the last remnants of the British Empire and initiating a new phase for it as both a modern city and a hub for global migrations. Hong Kong is a tour of the city’s postcolonial urban landscape, innovatively told through fieldwork and photography. Caroline Knowles and Douglas Harper’s point of entry into Hong Kong is the unusual position of the British expatriates who chose to remain in the city after the transition. Now a relatively insignificant presence, British migrants in Hong Kong have become intimately connected with another small minority group there: immigrants from Southeast Asia. The lives, journeys, and stories of these two groups bring to life a place where the past continues to resonate for all its residents, even as the city hurtles forward into a future marked by transience and transition. By skillfully blending ethnographic and visual approaches, Hong Kong offers a fascinating guide to a city that is at once unique in its recent history and exemplary of our globalized present.

Death Was Our Bedmate

Agnes McEwan,Campbell Thompson
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Author : Agnes McEwan,Campbell Thompson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473822481

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Death Was Our Bedmate by Agnes McEwan,Campbell Thompson Pdf

The book tells the story of a little known artillery regiment, the 155th (Lanarkshire Yeomanry) Field Regiment, RA which saw constant action during the ill-fated Malayan Campaign of 1941/42 and whose members later experienced the worst kind of hell as POWs of a cruel and bestial enemy.Following the Japanese invasion of Malaya, the Regiment fought a brave and resolute rearguard action all the way down the Malayan Peninsular and onto the so called impregnable fortress of Singapore. Held in the highest respect by comrades and foe alike, this former territorial cavalry regiment fully deserved its Royal Artillery moto Ubigue everywhere.In the years that followed, the Gunners slaved, suffered an d died on the infamous Burma Railway, in copper mines of Formosa and camps throughout the Far East. More men of the Regiment died as POWs than fell in action. They should not be forgotten.Included is a full nominal roll which allows the reader to identify the camp/s where each individual Gunner was held. A Roll of Honour provides the date, place and cause of death and place of burial/commemoration of the Regiments casualties.

Hong Kong

Michael Ingham
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Author : Michael Ingham
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199724475

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Hong Kong by Michael Ingham Pdf

Hong Kong has always been something of an anomaly, and an outpost of empire, whether British or Chinese. Once described as a barren island, the former fishing community has been transformed by its own economic miracle into one of Asia's World Cities, taking in its stride the territory's 1997 return to Chinese sovereignty. Beneath the surface of Hong Kong's clichéd self-image as Pearl of the Orient and Shopping Paradise, Michael Ingham reveals a city rich in history, myth, and cultural diversity.

Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations

Pauline Leonard
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Author : Pauline Leonard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317137979

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Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations by Pauline Leonard Pdf

Expatriate Identities in Postcolonial Organizations offers a timely and contemporary discussion of the role of organizations in maintaining or challenging structures and cultures based on racism and discrimination. It offers a key exploration of the relations between whiteness, identity and organization in migratory contexts. It delves into the experiences of expatriates in Hong Kong and the ways in which new identities are constructed in the destinations of migration by exploring the renegotiation of white identities and racialized relationships, and the extent to which colonial imaginations still inform contemporary organizations. By drawing on existing theoretical and empirical material on post-colonialism, identity-making, privileged migration, relocation, transnational work and organizations, this volume brings disparate discussions together in a new and accessible way. It will appeal to a range of sociology scholars as well as to those working in the fields of migration, gender studies, and cultural geography.

Tokyo Supernova

Stephen Barber
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Author : Stephen Barber
Publisher : SCB Distributors
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908694225

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In the final part of Stephen Barber's Tokyo Trilogy, the gorgeous media provocatrice Angeliko Slavsko returns to the tsunami-hit megalopolis to team up with her gang of Tokyo fuck-girls and instigate an all-out confrontation with the forces of neo-fascism and resurgent militarism, as they ass-fuck and massacre their way through an apocalyptic urban landscape of cryogenetic zombies, Mishima Shield Society veterans, bacteriological genocide-advocates, shit-eaters, white-noise nihilists, pre-teen deviants and bio-contaminated freaks. As Angeliko and her gang scar their way across the face of Tokyo, towards their hellbent goal of terminal urban destruction, the forces of nihilism and neo-fascism are finally allied in the furnace of the Solar Anus. Tokyo Supernova sets the ultimate stage in Stephen Barber's reinvention of extreme pornography for the atrocity-fixated digital age, presenting a virulent, category-A sensory experience which is unlike anything in the history of either cyberpunk or sex-writing, and strives to eclipse the previous extremes of both genres.

The Man Behind the Bridge

Peter Davies
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Author : Peter Davies
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780939629

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The Man Behind the Bridge by Peter Davies Pdf

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious "Bridge over the River Kwai". Toosey understood from the very beginning that the only real issue was how to ensure that as many of his men as possible should survive their captivity. Many thousands who knew how Toosey stood up to their oppressors at great personal risk were incensed by Alec Guinness's brilliant portrayal of 'Colonel Nicholson' in the film version of Boulle's book. This book provides an accurate historical account of the terrible events during which more than 16,000 PoWs died while building the Thai-Burma railway, of which "the bridge" formed an essential part. A memorial to Toosey, this book is also a definitive history of the building of the railway in the context of the Far Eastern theatre of World War II. First published in 1991, this title is part of the Bloomsbury Academic Collections series.

Japan

Malcolm Trevor
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Author : Malcolm Trevor
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1903350026

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Japan by Malcolm Trevor Pdf

This controversial study examines Japan's 'economic nationalism' which forms the basis of central government policy, i.e. the system in which business and politics are inseparable and which impacts on Japan's relations with the world.

Japanese Prisoners of War

Philip Towle,Margaret Kosuge,Yoichi Kibata
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Author : Philip Towle,Margaret Kosuge,Yoichi Kibata
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781852851927

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Japanese Prisoners of War by Philip Towle,Margaret Kosuge,Yoichi Kibata Pdf

During the Second World War the Japanese were stereotyped in the European and American imagination as fanatical, cruel and almost inhuman. This view is unhistorical and simplistic. It fails to recognise that the Japanese were acting at a time of supreme national crisis and it fails to take account of their own historical tradition. The essays in Japanese Prisoners of War, by both Western and Japanese scholars, explore the question from a balanced viewpoint, looking at it in the light of longer-term influences, notably the Japanese attempt to establish themselves as an honorary white race. The book also addresses the other side of the question, looking at the treatment of Japanese prisoners in Allied captivity.