On The Road To Mandalay

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474626071

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The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters Pdf

The second part of the bestselling novelist's dramatic autobiography about his time in the Gurkhas during the second world war This is the second part of John Masters' autobiography: how he fought with his Gurkha regiment during World War II until his promotion to command one of the Chindit columns behind enemy lines in Burma. Written by a bestselling novelist at the height of his powers, it is an exceptionally moving story that culminates in him having to personally shoot a number of wounded British soldiers who cannot be evacuated before their position is overrun by the Japanese. It is an uncomfortable reminder that Churchill's obsession with 'special forces' squandered thousands of Allied lives in operations that owed more to public relations than strategic calculation. This military and moral odyssey is one of the greatest of World War II frontline memoirs.

Author : Mra Sanʻʺ Taṅʻʹ,Mya T. Tint
Publisher : Asian Portraits
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Burma
ISBN : 9748299252

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On the Road to Mandalay by Mra Sanʻʺ Taṅʻʹ,Mya T. Tint Pdf

Brief biographies of thirty-four Burmese citizens belonging to various walks of life.

Author : Robert Johnson
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12
Category : Burma
ISBN : 9781600347351

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On the Back Road to Mandalay by Robert Johnson Pdf

"On the Back Road to Mandalay" is the story of twenty years of life and work in the mountains of western Burma. To advance the Christian faith, they had an adventurous life raising their children, running schools, training men and women for ministry, translating the Bible, building churches, producing Christian literature and Sunday school material, and promoting health and education.

Author : Kin Thida Oung
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 167813709X

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The Road from Mandalay by Kin Thida Oung Pdf

Smitten a hundred and thirty years ago by a Burmese beauty on the steps of a pagoda in Moulmein, Rudyard Kipling wrote the poem 'On the road to Mandalay'. In this vivid and feisty memoir, the great great great grand-daughter of the man who built the pagoda writes back.

Author : MiMi Aye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781472959485

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Mandalay by MiMi Aye Pdf

Influenced by its neighbours and the countries closest to it, Burmese food draws techniques and ingredients from Thailand, India and China but uses flavours of its own to make something subtle, delicious and unique. The food of Burma is little known, but MiMi seeks to change that within these pages, revealing its secrets and providing context to each recipe with stories from her time in Burma and her family's heritage. Beginning with a look at the ingredients that makes Burmese food unique – as well as suitable alternatives – MiMi goes on to discuss the special techniques and equipment needed before delving into chapters such as fritters, rice and noodles, salads, meat and fish and sweet snacks. Within these pages you'll find 100 incredible recipes, enabling you to create a taste of Burma in your own kitchen.

Author : Rudyard Kipling
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-03
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041987726

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Barrack-Room Ballads by Rudyard Kipling Pdf

"Barrack-Room Ballads" by Rudyard Kipling is a timeless collection of poems that encapsulates the camaraderie, hardships, and adventures of soldiers serving in the British Army during the late 19th century. Published in 1892, this anthology showcases Kipling's keen insight into the lives of ordinary soldiers and his ability to capture their experiences with authenticity and empathy. Drawing inspiration from his own experiences as a journalist and traveler, Kipling's poems in "Barrack-Room Ballads" transport readers to the barracks and battlefields where soldiers live, love, and fight. Through his vivid imagery and evocative language, he brings to life the sights, sounds, and emotions of military life, from the monotony of garrison duty to the thrill of combat. One of the defining features of this collection is Kipling's use of balladry—a traditional form of storytelling through verse. The ballads in "Barrack-Room Ballads" are characterized by their narrative style, rhythm, and often repetitive refrains, which lend themselves well to oral recitation and communal singing, mirroring the camaraderie and solidarity among soldiers. Thematically, the poems in "Barrack-Room Ballads" cover a wide range of subjects, including patriotism, courage, loyalty, and the harsh realities of war. Kipling explores the human cost of military service, the bonds forged between soldiers, and the often unspoken struggles faced by those who serve their country.

Author : Alan Warren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441152503

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Burma 1942 by Alan Warren Pdf

A comprehensive study of one of the key conflicts of the Second World War.

Author : B. M. Croker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781406820867

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The Road to Mandalay by B. M. Croker Pdf

Author : Andrew Selth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317298908

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Burma, Kipling and Western Music by Andrew Selth Pdf

For decades, scholars have been trying to answer the question: how was colonial Burma perceived in and by the Western world, and how did people in countries like the United Kingdom and United States form their views? This book explores how Western perceptions of Burma were influenced by the popular music of the day. From the First Anglo-Burmese War of 1824-6 until Burma regained its independence in 1948, more than 180 musical works with Burma-related themes were written in English-speaking countries, in addition to the many hymns composed in and about Burma by Christian missionaries. Servicemen posted to Burma added to the lexicon with marches and ditties, and after 1913 most movies about Burma had their own distinctive scores. Taking Rudyard Kipling’s 1890 ballad ‘Mandalay’ as a critical turning point, this book surveys all these works with emphasis on popular songs and show tunes, also looking at classical works, ballet scores, hymns, soldiers’ songs, sea shanties, and film soundtracks. It examines how they influenced Western perceptions of Burma, and in turn reflected those views back to Western audiences. The book sheds new light not only on the West’s historical relationship with Burma, and the colonial music scene, but also Burma’s place in the development of popular music and the rise of the global music industry. In doing so, it makes an original contribution to the fields of musicology and Asian Studies.

Author : Mra Sanʻʺ Taṅʻʹ
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Burma
ISBN : UOM:39015041755458

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On the Road to Mandalay by Mra Sanʻʺ Taṅʻʹ Pdf

Brief biographies of thirty-four Burmese citizens belonging to various walks of life.

Author : B. M. Croker
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547213796

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The Road to Mandalay by B. M. Croker Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Road to Mandalay" (A Tale of Burma) by B. M. Croker. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Burma
ISBN : 9781465595164

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From Peking to Mandalay: A Journey from North China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuch'uan and Yunnan by Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston Pdf

The journey of which an account is given in the following pages was not undertaken in the special interests of geographical or other science nor in the service of any Government. My chief object was to gratify a long-felt desire to visit those portions of the Chinese Empire which are least known to Europeans, and to acquire some knowledge of the various tribes subject to China that inhabit the wild regions of Chinese Tibet and north-western Yunnan. Though nearly every part of the Eighteen Provinces has in recent years been visited and described by European travellers, my route between Tachienlu and Li-chiang was one which—so far as I am aware—no British subject had ever traversed before me, and of which no description in book-form has hitherto appeared in any European language. From the ethnological point of view the Chinese Far West—to which the greater part of this book is devoted—is one of the most interesting regions in the world, and presents problems the solution of which would settle many of the vexed questions relating to the origin and inter-relations of the Asiatic peoples. As for its geographical interest, it may be sufficient to say here that the principalities of Chala and Muli contain what are probably the highest spots inhabited by man on the face of the globe, and that several of the passes crossed by my little caravan are loftier than the highest of the passes existing along the route traversed by the British expedition to Lhasa. My own contributions to geographical and ethnological lore are of the slenderest; but if I can persuade some of my readers that Tibetan Ssuch'uan and western Yunnan are worth visiting, be it only for the glory of their mountain scenery, I shall consider that my book has fulfilled the most useful purpose to which it aspires. For those who are seized by a craving to revert for a time to something like the nomadic life of our remote forefathers, or to pass like the old Hindu ascetics into "the homeless state," there can be no country in the world more full of charm than some of the wilder and less-peopled regions of the Chinese Empire. There are enormous areas in that country covered with primeval forests in which man's foot has never trod, lofty mountains whose peaks are crowned with sparkling diadems of eternal snow, grand and savage gorges in which Nature has carved for herself in indelible letters the story of the world's youth, and gloomy chasms through which rush the mighty rivers that carry to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific snows that melted on the white roof of the world. And amid all this magnificence and desolation there are lovely valleys and stretches of garden-land that might have been chosen as the Edens of a hundred mythologies, and which in historic times have been the homes of religious recluses and poets, who, like others of their kind in Western lands, found in silence and solitude a refuge from the bitterness and pain of the world, or a hermitage in which, amid scenes of perennial beauty, they could weave their flowers of thought into immortal garlands of human words.

Author : Thomas P. Walsh
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810886087

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Tin Pan Alley and the Philippines by Thomas P. Walsh Pdf

In this innovative resource, Thomas P. Walsh has compiled a unique collection of some 1,400 published and unpublished American musical compositions related to the Philippines during the American colonial era from 1898 to 1946. The book reprints a number of hard-to-find song lyrics, making them available to readers for the first time in more than a century. It also provides copyright registration numbers and dates of registration for many published and unpublished songs. Finally, more than 700 notes on particular songs and numerous links provide direct access to bibliographic records or digital copies of sheet music in libraries and collections.

Author : United States Armed Forces Institute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015053664184

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War Department Education Manual by United States Armed Forces Institute Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens,Walt Whitman,Henryk Sienkiewicz,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Walter Scott,Ella Wheeler Wilcox,Jean Ingelow,Eugene Field,Robert Burns,Thomas Moore,Susan Coolidge,Robert Browning,Alfred Tennyson,Edwin Arnold,Robert Bulwer-Lytton
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547530190

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Standard Selections by Charles Dickens,Walt Whitman,Henryk Sienkiewicz,Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,Walter Scott,Ella Wheeler Wilcox,Jean Ingelow,Eugene Field,Robert Burns,Thomas Moore,Susan Coolidge,Robert Browning,Alfred Tennyson,Edwin Arnold,Robert Bulwer-Lytton Pdf

"Standard Selections" by Charles Dickens, Walt Whitman, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walter Scott, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Jean Ingelow, Eugene Field, Robert Burns, Thomas Moore, Susan Coolidge, Robert Browning, Alfred Tennyson, Edwin Arnold, Robert Bulwer-Lytton. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.