Burma Railway Artist

Author : Jack Chalker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:809731859

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Burma Railway Artist by Jack Chalker Pdf

Author : Jack Bridger Chalker
Publisher : Leo Cooper Books
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Artists
ISBN : 0850523370

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Burma Railway Artist by Jack Bridger Chalker Pdf

This is the story and pictorial record of the people, places, landscapes and incidents which occurred while the British artist Jack Chalker was a prisoner of the Japanese. A gunner in the Royal Artillery, he spent three and a half years in Singapore and in the Thai-Burma railway camps.

Author : Jack Chalker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Artists
ISBN : 095571270X

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Burma Railway by Jack Chalker Pdf

Captured on arrival in Singapore, Jack Chalker, an art student, joined the 60,000 allied prisoners in the slave labour camps of the infamous Burma Railway. This book presents his work that records not only the misery, squalor and savagery of the prison camps, but also the horrific reality of disease, wounds and the ravages of starvation.

Author : Otto Kreefft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : 0646483498

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Burma Railway by Otto Kreefft Pdf

Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0415309514

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The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: Voluntary accounts by Paul H. Kratoska Pdf

Author : Andrew Selth
Publisher : ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-24
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789814951784

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Myanmar (Burma) since the 1988 Uprising by Andrew Selth Pdf

Updated by popular demand, this is the fourth edition of this important bibliography. It lists a wide selection of works on or about Myanmar published in English and in hard copy since the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, which marked the beginning of a new era in Myanmar’s modern history. There are now 2,727 titles listed. They have been written, edited, translated or compiled by over 2,000 people, from many different backgrounds. These works have been organized into thirty-five subject chapters containing ninety-five discrete sections. There are also four appendices, including a comprehensive reading guide for those unfamiliar with Myanmar or who may be seeking guidance on particular topics. This book is an invaluable aid to officials, scholars, journalists, armchair travellers and others with an interest in this fascinating but deeply troubled country.

Author : Jon Kay
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253022202

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Folk Art and Aging by Jon Kay Pdf

Growing old doesn’t have to be seen as an eventual failure but rather as an important developmental stage of creativity. Offering an absorbing and fresh perspective on aging and crafts, Jon Kay explores how elders choose to tap into their creative and personal potential through making life-story objects. Carving, painting, and rug hooking not only help seniors to cope with the ailments of aging and loneliness but also to achieve greater satisfaction with their lives. Whether revived from childhood memories or inspired by their capacity to connect to others, meaningful memory projects serve as a lens for focusing on, remaking, and sharing the long-ago. These activities often help elders productively fill the hours after they have raised their children, retired from their jobs, and/or lost a loved one. These individuals forge new identities for themselves that do not erase their earlier lives but build on them and new lives that include sharing scenes and stories from their memories.

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : IND:39000001174742

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To the Kwai and Back by Ronald Searle Pdf

Tegninger og tekst fra kunstnerens tid som japanernes krigsfange i Singapore og som tvangsarbejder på Siam - Burma jernbanen (langs floden Kwai)

Author : Donald M. Seekins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781538101834

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Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) by Donald M. Seekins Pdf

This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Burma (Myanmar) contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on important personalities, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture.

Author : Geoffrey V. Gill,Meg Parkes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 1910837091

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Burma Railway Medicine by Geoffrey V. Gill,Meg Parkes Pdf

The 'Death Railway' was very well named. More correctly called the Burma or Thai-Burma Railway, it was a major project during Allied Far East imprisonment under the Japanese. Over 60,000 prisoners worked on its construction, the majority of whom were British, and some 20 per cent died before release in 1945. Working conditions were appalling, the climate inhospitable, and food supplies grossly inadequate, making the POWs terribly vulnerable to a plethora of tropical infections and syndromes of malnutrition. No medical care was given by their Japanese captors, and it fell to the Allied POW doctors and medical orderlies to treat the sick, which they did with little in the way of medical equipment or drugs.

Author : Ian G. Kennedy,Julian Treuherz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art, Modern
ISBN : UOM:39076002740616

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The Railway by Ian G. Kennedy,Julian Treuherz Pdf

Through vivid illustrations and engaging texts, this title captures both the fear and excitement of early train travel as it probes the artistic response to steam locomotion within its social setting.

Author : Michael Snape
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780281086924

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Forgotten Warrior by Michael Snape Pdf

Eighty years after his death in a Japanese prison camp, this compelling new biography charts the career of a distinguished but hitherto neglected hero of the British army. Major-General Merton Beckwith-Smith DSO, MC commanded the British 18th Division during the catastrophic Fall of Singapore in February 1942. A highly respected and much decorated veteran of the First World War, he was captured along with tens of thousands of other soldiers - British, Indian, Australian, and Malay - who were then held prisoner on Singapore Island. Amidst hunger, disease and widespread despair in Changi, over the next six months he rallied the spirits of his soldiers, created a make - shift university and theatre, and helped to inspire a remarkable renewal of collective church life. At the same time, he improved conditions for hospital patients and encouraged sports and other recreations. While the fate of many of the men he led was to toil, and often die, on the infamous Burma Railway, Beckwith-Smith was exiled to Karenko Camp, Formosa (present-day Taiwan), where, mistreated and malnourished, he died of diphtheria and heart failure on 11 November 1942. Beckwith-Smith, was the most senior British officer to end his life as a prisoner of war in the Far East. Yet until now he has been a strangely forgotten warrior. Based on exclusive access to family archives, and drawing on an array of other eye-witness accounts, Michael Snape's richly detailed biography brings to an end that neglect. The result is a story that offers vivid insights into one man's experience of two world wars, while also revealing why he was so admired by his fellow officers and by the ordinary soldiers who served under him.

Author : Gilly Carr,Harold Mytum
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136322365

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Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War by Gilly Carr,Harold Mytum Pdf

This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates, mugs and makeshift stoves, all which have previously received little attention. The authors of this volume show the wide potential of such items to inform us about the daily life and struggle for survival behind barbed wire. Previously dismissed as items which could only serve to illustrate POW memoirs and diaries, this book argues for a central role of all items of creativity in helping us to understand the true experience of life in captivity. The international authors draw upon a rich seam of material from their own case studies of POW and civilian internment camps across the world, to offer a range of interpretations of this diverse and extraordinary material.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 838 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005681080

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The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arnold Krammer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313087158

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Prisoners of War by Arnold Krammer Pdf

America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written on the subject of prisoners of war. Yet, to understand the present, it is critical to look back over history. To that end, Arnold Krammer examines the fate of war prisoners from Biblical and Medieval times through the halting evolution of international law to the current reshuffling of the rules. The issue of prisoners of war is of more immediate concern now than ever before and an examination of the history of their treatment and current status may well influence foreign policy. The fate of war prisoners through history has been cruel and haphazard. The lives of captives hung by a thread. Execution, enslavement, torture, or being held for ransom were equally likely. International agreements developed haltingly through the 19th and 20th centuries to culminate in the Geneva Accords of 1929. America's current War on Terror is causing a readjustment of centuries of POW policies. Prisoners of war are once again in the news as America and Western Europe grapple with a new, faceless enemy and the rules of war and the torture of POWs are open to reconsideration. Until very recently, there has been astonishingly little written on the subject of prisoners of war. Yet, to understand the present, it is critical to look back over history. To that end, Arnold Krammer examines the fate of war prisoners from Biblical and Medieval times through the halting evolution of international law to the current reshuffling of the rules. Since biblical times, war captives have been considered property and counted as booty to be enslaved or killed. Americans were interested in generals and weapons and battles, but not the fate of prisoners of war. The Second World War, when 90,000 Americans fell into enemy hands, began to change that. Concern for our POWs in Germany and Japan, and close contact with enemy camps in America began to change our attitudes. However, it was the Vietnam War, media-driven and polarizing, that caused the American public to truly reevaluate the plight of its sons and brothers, heroic and clearly loyal, as they fell into the hands of an inscrutable and apparently unyielding distant enemy. More recently, during the first Gulf War of 1991 and the current War on Terrorism, the issue of prisoners of war has moved to center stage, involving the clash of ideologies, politics, and expediency. Since 9/11, the rights and safety of prisoners of war caught up in the War on Terror have been debated in Congress and adjudicated on by former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales whose conclusions were protested by numerous organizations. The issue of prisoners of war is of more immediate concern now than ever before, and an examination of the history of their treatment and current status may well influence foreign policy.