Dieter Dengler

Author : Bruce Henderson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780061989896

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Hero Found by Bruce Henderson Pdf

From the New York Times bestselling author of Sons and Soldiers comes the incredible but true story of Dieter Dengler, the only pilot to escape captivity from a POW camp in the Laotian jungle during the Vietnam War. In February 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over "neutral" Laos in jungle territory controlled by Pathet Lao guerrillas and North Vietnamese regulars, who captured and held him in a fortified prisoner-of-war camp. Already a legend in the navy for his unique escape skills, the German-born Dengler proved to be no ordinary prisoner. Caught in a desperate situation, imprisoned by the enemy and by the jungle itself, Dengler set out to free not only himself but also other POWs—American, Thai, and Chinese—some of whom had been held for years. This amazing story of triumph over seemingly insurmountable odds has been filmed by Werner Herzog as both a documentary (Little Dieter Needs to Fly) and a motion picture (Rescue Dawn, starring Christian Bale). Now Bruce Henderson, who served with Dengler aboard USS Ranger, tells the complete story of Dengler's captivity and remarkable escape—based on in-depth personal interviews as well as military archival materials, some never before made public—in this riveting account of unending optimism, courage, loyalty, and survival against overwhelming odds.

Author : Larry Slawson
Publisher : Larry Slawson via PublishDrive
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : PKEY:6610000192632

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Dieter Dengler by Larry Slawson Pdf

This book explores the life and legacy of former U.S. Navy pilot, Dieter Dengler, and his escape from a North Vietnamese POW camp in 1966.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:$B642672

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Imprisonment and Escape of Lt. (JG.) Dieter Dengler, USNR by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Considers Lt. Dengler's imprisonment and escape from North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045142861

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Imprisonment and Escape of Lt. (JG.)Dieter Dengler, USNR, Hearing...89-2, September 16, 1966 by United States. Congress. Senate. Armed Services Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Hay
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551994314

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Late Nights on Air by Elizabeth Hay Pdf

The Scotiabank Giller Prize–winning novel from Elizabeth Hay. Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air, though the real woman, Dido Paris, is both a surprise and even more than he imagined. Dido and Harry are part of the cast of eccentric, utterly loveable characters, all transplants from elsewhere, who form an unlikely group at the station. Their loves and longings, their rivalries and entanglements, the stories of their pasts and what brought each of them to the North, form the centre. One summer, on a canoe trip four of them make into the Arctic wilderness (following in the steps of the legendary Englishman John Hornby, who, along with his small party, starved to death in the barrens in 1927), they find the balance of love shifting, much as the balance of power in the North is being changed by the proposed Mackenzie Valley gas pipeline, which threatens to displace Native people from their land. With unforgettable characters, vividly evoked settings, in this award–winning novel, Hay brings to bear her skewering intelligence into the frailties of the human heart and her ability to tell a spellbinding story. Written in gorgeous prose, laced with dark humour, Late Nights on Air is Hay’s most seductive and accomplished novel yet.

Author : Ron Milam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440840470

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The Vietnam War in Popular Culture by Ron Milam Pdf

Covering many aspects of the Vietnam War that have not been addressed before, this book supplies new perspectives from academics as well as Vietnam veterans that explore how this key conflict of the 20th century has influenced everyday life and popular culture during the war as well as for the past 50 years. How did the experience of the Vietnam War change the United States, not just in the 1950s through the 1970s, but through to today? What role do popular music and movies play in how we think of the Vietnam War? How similar are the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—and now Syria—to the Vietnam War in terms of duration, cost, success and failure rates, and veteran issues? This two-volume set addresses these questions and many more, examining how the Vietnam War has been represented in media, music, and film, and how American popular culture changed because of the war. Accessibly written and appropriate for students and general readers, this work documents how the war that occurred on the other side of the globe in the jungles of Vietnam impacted everyday life in the United States and influenced various entertainment modes. It not only covers the impact of the counterculture revolution, popular music about Vietnam recorded while the war was being fought (and after), and films made immediately following the end of the war in the 1970s, but also draws connections to more modern events and popular culture expressions, such as films made in the aftermath of September 11, 2001. Attention is paid to the impact of social movements like the environmental movement and the civil rights movement and their relationships to the Vietnam War. The set will also highlight how the experiences and events of the Vietnam War are still impacting current generations through television shows such as Mad Men.

Author : Laurie Ruth Johnson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781571139115

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Forgotten Dreams by Laurie Ruth Johnson Pdf

Offers not only an analytical study of the films of Herzog, perhaps the most famous living German filmmaker, but also a new reading of Romanticism's impact beyond the nineteenth century and in the present.

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350091689

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Werner Herzog by Richard Eldridge Pdf

Werner Herzog has produced some of the most powerful, haunting, and memorable images ever captured on film. Both his fiction films and his documentaries address fundamental issues about nature, selfhood, and history in ways that engage with but also criticize and qualify the best philosophical thinking about these topics. In focusing on figures from Aguirre, Kasper Hauser, and Stroszek to Timothy Treadwell, Graham Dorrington, Dieter Dengler, and Walter Steiner, among many others, Herzog investigates the nature of human life in time and the possibilities of meaning that might be available within it. His films demonstrate the importance of the image in coming to terms with the plights of contemporary industrial and commercial culture. Eldridge unpacks and develops Herzog's achievement by bringing his work into engagement with the thinking of Freud, Merleau-Ponty, Nietzsche, Hegel, Cavell, and Benjamin, but more importantly also by attending closely to the logic and development of the films themselves and to Herzog's own extensive writings about filmmaking.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789401201919

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Bombs Away! by Anonim Pdf

Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany. The authors examine narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively little known works as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions of the varied representations of the depredations of total war. The introduction and afterword by the editors invite the readers to expand the contours and historical context of the debates about the German public discourse on the bombing war beyond the narrow confines of perpetrators and victims. The volume will be of interest to literary scholars, historians, and the general reading public interested in warfare and its effects on civilian populations.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435028373470

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf

Author : Wilfried Wilms,William Rasch
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Art
ISBN : 9042017597

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Bombs Away! by Wilfried Wilms,William Rasch Pdf

Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany. The authors examine narrative strategies of both well-known and relatively little known works as well as the moral and ideological presuppositions of the varied representations of the depredations of total war. The introduction and afterword by the editors invite the readers to expand the contours and historical context of the debates about the German public discourse on the bombing war beyond the narrow confines of perpetrators and victims. The volume will be of interest to literary scholars, historians, and the general reading public interested in warfare and its effects on civilian populations.

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2482 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:35112104264892

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Hearings by United States. Congress Senate Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2042 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3566083

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Armed Services by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : United States
ISBN : UCAL:B5107105

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Authorization for Increased Air Force Officer and Reserve General Officer Promotions by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services Pdf

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780740792168

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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 by Roger Ebert Pdf

Nobody has been more important in telling Americans why we should love film than Roger Ebert. --Michael Shamberg, Editor and Publisher Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert presents more than 650 full-length critical movie reviews, along with interviews, essays, tributes, film festival reports, and Q and As from Questions for the Movie Answer Man. Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 collects more than two years' worth of his engaging film critiques. From Bee Movie to Darfur Now to No Country for Old Men, and from Juno to Persepolis to La Vie en Rose, Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2009 includes every review Ebert has written from January 2006 to June 2008. Also included in the Yearbook, which boasts 65 percent new content, are: * Interviews with newsmakers, such as Juno director Jason Reitman and Jerry Seinfeld, a touching tribute to Deborah Kerr, and an emotional letter of appreciation to Werner Herzog. * Essays on film issues, and tributes to actors and directors who died during the year. * Daily film festival reports from Cannes, Toronto, Sundance, and Telluride. * All-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns.