Not The Slightest Chance

Author : Tony Banham
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0774810459

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More than 10% of Hong Kong's defenders were killed in battle; a further 20% died in captivity. Those who survived seldom spoke of their experiences. Many died young. The little primary material surviving--written in POW camps or years after the events--is contradictory and muddled. Yet with just 14,000 defending the colony, it was possible to write from the individual's point of view rather than that of the Big Battalions so favoured by God (according to Napoleon) and most historians. The book assembles a phase-by-phase, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and death-by-death account of the battle. It considers the individual actions that made up the fighting, as well as the strategies and plans and the many controversies that arose.

Author : Victoria. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1136 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWBZER

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Parliamentary Debates by Victoria. Parliament Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009845434

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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Canada. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1452 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Canada
ISBN : PSU:000070384536

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Debates by Canada. Parliament. House of Commons Pdf

Author : Paul Letters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9887792799

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The Slightest Chance by Paul Letters Pdf

In war, you can pretend to be someone youre not. Yet, in war, people find out who you really are. Hong Kong, 1941. Anglo-Australian civil servant Dominic Sotherlys colonial sojourn in Hong Kong becomes complicated by his double life in both war and love. Enigmatic Englishwoman Gwen Harmison possesses secrets of her own plus an unrelenting desire for liberty. Inscrutable Eurasian Chester Drake is but one of Gwens secrets. From gaiety at the Peninsula Hotel to persecution both inside and outside of internment, the story journeys from war-ravaged Hong Kong to war-weary China. From real history, meet the one-legged Chinese admiral who led Hong Kongs daring Great Escape and the Japanese Christian soldier who risked his life for the enemy. And, uniquely during the occupation of Hong Kong, discover how one Englishwoman made history in her defiance of Imperial Japan.

Author : Nikolai Gogol
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780812971194

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Taras Bulba by Nikolai Gogol Pdf

The First New Translation in Forty Years Set sometime between the mid-sixteenth and early-seventeenth century, Gogol’s epic tale recounts both a bloody Cossack revolt against the Poles (led by the bold Taras Bulba of Ukrainian folk mythology) and the trials of Taras Bulba’s two sons. As Robert Kaplan writes in his Introduction, “[Taras Bulba] has a Kiplingesque gusto . . . that makes it a pleasure to read, but central to its theme is an unredemptive, darkly evil violence that is far beyond anything that Kipling ever touched on. We need more works like Taras Bulba to better understand the emotional wellsprings of the threat we face today in places like the Middle East and Central Asia.” And the critic John Cournos has noted, “A clue to all Russian realism may be found in a Russian critic’s observation about Gogol: ‘Seldom has nature created a man so romantic in bent, yet so masterly in portraying all that is unromantic in life.’ But this statement does not cover the whole ground, for it is easy to see in almost all of Gogol’s work his ‘free Cossack soul’ trying to break through the shell of sordid today like some ancient demon, essentially Dionysian. So that his works, true though they are to our life, are at once a reproach, a protest, and a challenge, ever calling for joy, ancient joy, that is no more with us. And they have all the joy and sadness of the Ukrainian songs he loved so much.”

Author : Great Britain. State Trials Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Trials
ISBN : PRNC:32101065983551

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Reports of State Trials by Great Britain. State Trials Committee Pdf

Author : Stephen Birmingham
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504040501

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The Towers of Love by Stephen Birmingham Pdf

The Towers of Love is a suspenseful family drama set among the well-to-do schemers of a Connecticut suburb. When Hugh Carey moves home to take stock of his failing marriage, he is reunited with Edrita Everett Smith, the girl next door who got away. But his cold, manipulative and fascinating mother Sandy has never liked Edrita, and she is not about to let Hugh out of her grasp now.

Author : Tony Banham
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789622099609

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We Shall Suffer There by Tony Banham Pdf

Tony Banham documents the experiences of Hong Kong's prisoners of war and civilian internees from their capture by the Japanese in December 1941 to liberation, rescue and repatriation.

Author : New Zealand. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UOM:39015089045747

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Parliamentary Debates by New Zealand. Parliament Pdf

Author : Great Britain. Parliament
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1012 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106512452

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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain. Parliament Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Art criticism
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030038725323

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Atlantic Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : American essays
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103018420

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The Atlantic Monthly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11576266

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Parliamentary Debates by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082165261

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The Musical Herald and Tonic Sol-fa Reporter by Anonim Pdf