Hell Ship

Author : Gregory F Michno
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781682470251

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Death on the Hellships by Gregory F Michno Pdf

Now available in paperback, Death on the Hellships chronicles the true dimensions of the Allied POW experience at sea. It is a disturbing story; many believe the Bataan Death March even pales by comparison. Survivors describe their ordeal in the Japanese hellships as the absolute worst experience of their captivity. Crammed by the thousands into the holds of the ships, moved from island to island and put to work, they endured all the horrors of the prison camps magnified tenfold. Gregory Michno draws on American, British, Australian, and Dutch POW accounts as well as Japanese convoy histories, declassified radio intelligence reports, and a wealth of archival sources to present a detailed picture of the horror.

Author : Michael Veitch
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760636647

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Hell Ship by Michael Veitch Pdf

For more than a century and a half, a grim tale has passed down through Michael Veitch's family: the story of the Ticonderoga, a clipper ship that sailed from Liverpool in August 1852, crammed with poor but hopeful emigrants-mostly Scottish victims of the Clearances and the potato famine. A better life, they believed, awaited them in Australia. Three months later, a ghost ship crept into Port Phillip Bay flying the dreaded yellow flag of contagion. On her horrific three-month voyage, deadly typhus had erupted, killing a quarter of Ticonderoga's passengers and leaving many more desperately ill. Sharks, it was said, had followed her passage as the victims were buried at sea. Panic struck Melbourne. Forbidden to dock at the gold-boom town, the ship was directed to a lonely beach on the far tip of the Mornington Peninsula, a place now called Ticonderoga Bay. James William Henry Veitch was the ship's assistant surgeon, on his first appointment at sea. Among the volunteers who helped him tend to the sick and dying was a young woman from the island of Mull, Annie Morrison. What happened between them on that terrible voyage is a testament to human resilience, and to love. Michael Veitch is their great-great-grandson, and Hell Ship is his brilliantly researched narrative of one of the biggest stories of its day, now all but forgotten. Broader than his own family's story, it brings to life the hardships and horrors endured by those who came by sea to seek a new life in Australia.

Author : Georgianne Burlage
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418170

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Living in the Shadow of a Hell Ship by Georgianne Burlage Pdf

U.S. Marine George Burlage was part of the largest surrender in American history at Bataan and Corregidor in the spring of 1942, where the Japanese captured more than 85,000 troops. More than forty percent would not survive World War II. His prisoner-of-war ordeal began at Cabanatuan near Manila, where the death rate in the early months of World War II was fifty men a day. Sensing that Cabanatuan was a death trap, he managed to get transferred to the isolated island of Palawan to help build an airfield for his captors. Malaria and other tropical diseases caused him to be sent to Manila for treatment in 1943 (a year later, 139 of his fellow POWs were massacred on Palawan). After another year of building airfields, Burlage survived a 38-day voyage in the hull of a Japanese hell ship and ended the war as a miner for Mitsubishi in northern Japan. By sheer luck, strength, and a bit of sabotage, he survived and was freed in September 1945 after the Japanese surrendered. He had endured starvation and torture and lost half of his prewar weight, but no one had killed him. After the war Burlage became a journalist and wrote about his POW experiences. His daughter Georgianne discovered his writings after George passed away in 2008, and edited them with additional historical material to provide context for his World War II experiences in the Pacific.

Author : David Wood,Sean Ellis
Publisher : Adrenaline Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hell Ship by David Wood,Sean Ellis Pdf

When Navy SEAL Dane Maddock and his squad are sent to find the wreckage of a sunken World War II Japanese “Hell Ship,” they find themselves caught up in a deadly race to solve an eight hundred year old mystery. Can Dane and Bones outrun, outfight, and outwit a cadre of deadly adversaries and find the key to unlock the deadly secret of the Knights Templar? Sunken ships, conspiracies, secret societies, historical mysteries, and all the action you can handle! A globe-trotting, adrenaline-charged thriller in the tradition of Clive Cussler and James Rollins. Don’t miss it! "Dane and Bones.... Together they're unstoppable. Rip roaring action from start to finish. Wit and humor throughout. Just one question - how soon until the next one? Because I can't wait." Graham Brown, author of Shadows of the Midnight Sun “Ellis and Wood are a partnership forged in the fires of Hell. Books don’t burn hotter than this!”- Steven Savile, author of the Ogmios thrillers.

Author : Philip Palmer
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316134590

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Hell Ship by Philip Palmer Pdf

The Hell Ship hurtles through space. Inside the ship are thousands of slaves, each the last of their race. The Hell Ship and its infernal crew destroyed their homes, slaughtered their families and imprisoned them forever. One man refuses to accept his fate. Sharrock, reduced from hero to slave in one blow, has sworn a mighty vengeance. But help is closer than he knows. Jak has been following the Ship for years. Battle after battle has left Jak scarred and broken, a mind in a starship's body, bent on destroying the Ship for its crimes. Working together, can they end this interstellar nightmare?

Author : William Barr
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0888644728

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Arctic Hell-Ship by William Barr Pdf

In 1850, Richard Collinson captained the HMS Enterprise on a voyage to the Arctic via the Bering Strait in search of the missing Franklin expedition. Arctic Hell-Ship describes the daily progress of this little-known Arctic expedition, and examines the steadily worsening relations between Collinson and his officers. William Barr has based his research on a wide range of original archival documents, and the book is illustrated with a selection of vivid paintings by the ship's assistant surgeon, Edward Adams.

Author : Raymond Alfred Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1686705557

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The Hell Ship by Raymond Alfred Palmer Pdf

The passengers rocketed through space in luxury. But they never went below decks because rumor had it that Satan himself manned the controls of The Hell Ship.

Author : Brigid Brophy
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781787205512

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Black Ship to Hell by Brigid Brophy Pdf

Is modern man threatening to destroy his world? First published in 1962, this book, which analyzes the origins, history, and manifestations of the destructive impulse that exists in human beings, has relevance and interest for all of us. The author sees this impulse as primarily one of self-destruction deflected outward, and her brilliant exploration of its multiple effects takes her and the reader into regions of complex fascination. In ranging the fields of art, science, and morality for evidence to support her contentions, Miss Brophy not only reveals herself as a writer of immense cultivation and power, but also as a provocative thinker. Her basic conclusion—that the philosopher, the teacher, the psychologist, and the artist, among others, in order to be productive or even operative, must acknowledge and allow for the instinctual sources of behavior, which Freud so daringly illuminated and documented—is expressed in lively, passionate prose. This is a highly controversial book that will undoubtedly rouse storms of argument, for the issues, like the outcome, are of the deepest concern to us all. Miss Brophy’s opponents, if they are to make themselves heard, must at least match her in intellectual caliber and cultural equipment.

Author : Judith L. Pearson
Publisher : Diversion Publishing Corp.
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626812918

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Belly of the Beast by Judith L. Pearson Pdf

“A searing tribute . . . [to] America in its bleakest hour” (Sen. John McCain, New York Times–bestselling author of Faith of My Fathers). On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than sixteen hundred other American captives. More than eleven hundred of them would be dead by journey’s end . . . The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the navy’s medical corps, Myers arrived in Manila shortly before the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the other six targets of the Imperial Japanese military. While he and his fellow corpsmen tended to the bloody tide of soldiers pouring into their once peaceful naval hospital, the Japanese overwhelmed the Pacific islands, capturing seventy-eight thousand POWs by April 1942. Myers was one of the first captured. After a brutal three-year encampment, Myers and his fellow POWs were forced onto an enemy hell ship bound for Japan. Suffocation, malnutrition, disease, dehydration, infestation, madness, and complete despair claimed the lives of nearly three quarters of those who boarded “the beast.” Myers survived. A compelling account of a rarely recorded event in military history, this is more than Myers’s true story—this is an homage to the unfailing courage of men at war, an inspiring chronicle of self-sacrifice and endurance, and a tribute to the power of faith, the strength of the soul, and the triumph of the human spirit. “An inspiring look at one of World War II’s darkest hours.” —James Bradley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys “A searing chronicle.” —Kirkus Reviews

Author : Raymond Lamont-Brown
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752494838

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Ships from Hell by Raymond Lamont-Brown Pdf

This is a new and frightening insight into Japanese atrocities in the Second World War. The horrific conditions aboard hellships at sea are revealed including the torture, disease and massacre which characterised them.

Author : Robert P. Watson
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306825538

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The Ghost Ship of Brooklyn by Robert P. Watson Pdf

The most horrific struggle of the American Revolution occurred just 100 yards off New York, where more men died aboard a rotting prison ship than were lost to combat during the entirety of the war. Moored off the coast of Brooklyn until the end of the war, the derelict ship, the HMS Jersey, was a living hell for thousands of Americans either captured by the British or accused of disloyalty. Crammed below deck--a shocking one thousand at a time--without light or fresh air, the prisoners were scarcely fed food and water. Disease ran rampant and human waste fouled the air as prisoners suffered mightily at the hands of brutal British and Hessian guards. Throughout the colonies, the mere mention of the ship sparked fear and loathing of British troops. It also sparked a backlash of outrage as newspapers everywhere described the horrors onboard the ghostly ship. This shocking event, much like the better-known Boston Massacre before it, ended up rallying public support for the war. Revealing for the first time hundreds of accounts culled from old newspapers, diaries, and military reports, award-winning historian Robert P. Watson follows the lives and ordeals of the ship's few survivors to tell the astonishing story of the cursed ship that killed thousands of Americans and yet helped secure victory in the fight for independence.

Author : Raymond Alfred Palmer
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1517700566

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The Hell Ship by Raymond Alfred Palmer Pdf

The passengers rocketed through space in luxury. But they never went below decks because rumor had it that Satan himself manned the controls of The Hell Ship. Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to [email protected] This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via [email protected]

Author : Raymond Alfred Palmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9635252692

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Hell Ship by Raymond Alfred Palmer Pdf

Author : Gian Quasar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1257322133

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Hell Ship by Gian Quasar Pdf

Not since the first novels about the mutiny on the Bounty has a high seas drama of adventure, politics and treachery, captured the senses as Hell Ship. In January 1918 a US supply vessel, the USS Cyclops, set sail with an angry crew and a bitter captain. Forty of the men had just brought accusations against him for drunkenness and abuse. Every league she sailed tensions increased. The captain had the Exec. arrested. He treated the men like dogs and began walking the bridge at night in his longjohns and a derby hat. By the time the vessel made an unscheduled stop at Barbados, she was a hell ship. After the great ship left, she vanished, leaving in her wake rumors of mutiny and an illegal execution at sea.

Author : John Wukovits
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306823251

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Hell from the Heavens by John Wukovits Pdf

Looking toward the heavens, the destroyer crew saw what seemed to be the entire Japanese Air Force assembled directly above. Hell was about to be unleashed on them in the largest single-ship kamikaze attack of World War II. On April 16, 1945, the crewmen of the USS Laffey were battle hardened and prepared. They had engaged in combat off the Normandy coast in June 1944. They had been involved in three prior assaults of enemy positions in the Pacific-at Leyte and Lingayen in the Philippines and at Iwo Jima. They had seen kamikazes purposely crash into other destroyers and cruisers in their unit and had seen firsthand the bloody results of those crazed tactics. But nothing could have prepared the crew for this moment-an eighty-minute ordeal in which the single small ship was targeted by no fewer than twenty-two Japanese suicide aircraft. By the time the unprecedented attack on the Laffey was finished, thirty-two sailors lay dead, more than seventy were wounded, and the ship was grievously damaged. Although she lay shrouded in smoke and fire for hours, the Laffey somehow survived, and the gutted American warship limped from Okinawa's shore for home, where the ship and crew would be feted as heroes. Using scores of personal interviews with survivors, the memoirs of crew members, and the sailors' wartime correspondence, historian and author John Wukovits breathes life into the story of this nearly forgotten historic event. The US Navy described the kamikaze attack on the Laffey "as one of the great sea epics of the war." In Hell from the Heavens, the author makes the ordeal of the Laffey and her crew a story for the ages.