The Bamboo Cage

Author : Robert Wyse
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124190690

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Bamboo Cage by Robert Wyse Pdf

"In 1942, RAF Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the Indonesian island of Java. In this no-holds-barred account, Wyse describes the harsh conditions he and his fellow prisoners suffered. Subjected to beatings, starvation, debilitating illness, and unbelievably harsh work, Wyse struggled to describe the brutalities he witnessed." "Although the punishment for keeping a diary would have been severe, Wyse persevered, scrounging for bits of paper and slivers of pencil and hiding his writing wherever he could until it became too dangerous to continue. Then, in December 1943, he buried his notes in a piece of bamboo under his prison hut." "Robert Wyse's diary was retrieved by a Dutch friend after the war. An historical goldmine of information on life as a prisoner of war, the diary reveals both the worst and the best of human nature." --Book Jacket.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : SP Books
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1561712418

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The Bamboo Cage by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf

Cawthorne has cracked open the biggest cover-up since the Watergate scandal. The freelance journalist uses CIA documents and Pentagon files to reveal that the U.S. government deliberately withheld crucial information about American soldiers still missing in Vietnam. Photos.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537130188

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The Bamboo Cage by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf

The first published investigation into whether US prisoners of war were left behind in Southeast Asia after the Vietnam war.

Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062995278

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When We Were Young & Brave by Hazel Gaynor Pdf

"Gaynor's story of courage and strength will make you believe in the heroic spirit in each of us." —Lisa Wingate, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before We Were Yours The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home sets her unforgettable new novel in China during WWII, inspired by true events surrounding the Japanese Army’s internment of teachers and children from a British-run missionary school. Their motto was to be prepared, but nothing could prepare them for war. China, December 1941. Having left an unhappy life in England for a teaching post at a missionary school in northern China, Elspeth Kent is now anxious to return home to help the war effort. But as she prepares to leave China, a terrible twist of fate determines a different path for Elspeth, and those in her charge. Ten-year-old Nancy Plummer has always felt safe at Chefoo School, protected by her British status. But when Japan declares war on Britain and America, Japanese forces take control of the school and the security and comforts Nancy and her friends are used to are replaced by privation, uncertainty and fear. Now the enemy, and separated from their parents, the children look to their teachers – to Miss Kent and her new Girl Guide patrol especially – to provide a sense of unity and safety. Faced with the relentless challenges of oppression, the school community must rely on their courage, faith and friendships as they pray for liberation – but worse is to come when they are sent to a distant internment camp where even greater uncertainty and danger await . . . Inspired by true events, When We Were Young and Brave is an unforgettable novel about impossible choices and unimaginable hardship, and the life-changing bonds formed between a young girl and her teacher in a remote corner of a terrible war.

Author : Susan Barker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501106781

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The Incarnations by Susan Barker Pdf

"Hailed as "China's Midnight's Children," a gripping new novel about a Beijing taxi driver whose past incarnations haunt him through searing letters sent by his mysterious soulmate"--

Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062698636

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor Pdf

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.

Author : Yoko Kawashima Watkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-24
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780062347114

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So Far from the Bamboo Grove by Yoko Kawashima Watkins Pdf

In the final days of World War II, Koreans were determined to take back control of their country from the Japanese and end the suffering caused by the Japanese occupation. As an eleven-year-old girl living with her Japanese family in northern Korea, Yoko is suddenly fleeing for her life with her mother and older sister, Ko, trying to escape to Japan, a country Yoko hardly knows. Their journey is terrifying—and remarkable. It's a true story of courage and survival that highlights the plight of individual people in wartime. In the midst of suffering, acts of kindness, as exemplified by a family of Koreans who risk their own lives to help Yoko's brother, are inspiring reminders of the strength and resilience of the human spirit.

Author : John Slater
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:225280061

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Author : Jonathan Edward Durham
Publisher : Credo House Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1625862083

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Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham Pdf

Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle. Winterset Hollow follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their favorite book-a timeless tale about a tribe of animals preparing for their yearly end-of-summer festival. But after a series of shocking discoveries, they find that much of what the world believes to be fiction is actually fact, and that the truth behind their beloved story is darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined. It's Barley Day . . . and you're invited to the hunt. Winterset Hollow is as thrilling as it is terrifying and as smart as it is surprising. A uniquely original story filled with properly unexpected twists and turns, Winterset Hollow delivers complex, indelible characters and pulse- pounding action as it storms toward an unforgettable climax that will leave you reeling. How do you celebrate Barley Day? You run, friend. You run. Jonathan Edward Durham was born near Philadelphia in one of many rust-belt communities where he read voraciously throughout his youth. After attending the College of William & Mary, where he received a degree in neuroscience, Jonathan waded into the professional world before deciding he was better suited for more artistic pursuits. He now lives in California where he writes to bring a unique voice to the space between the timeless wonder of his favorite childhood stories and the pop sensibilities of his adolescent literary indulgences.

Author : Bill Hendon,Elizabeth A. Stewart
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 1270 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429922906

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An Enormous Crime by Bill Hendon,Elizabeth A. Stewart Pdf

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An Enormous Crime is nothing less than shocking. Based on thousands of pages of public and previously classified documents, it makes an utterly convincing case that when the American government withdrew its forces from Vietnam, it knowingly abandoned hundreds of POWs to their fate. The product of twenty-five years of research by former Congressman Bill Hendon and attorney Elizabeth A. Stewart, this book brilliantly reveals the reasons why these American soldiers and airmen were held back by the North Vietnamese at Operation Homecoming in 1973, what these brave men have endured, and how administration after administration of their own government has turned its back on them. This authoritative exposé is based on open-source documents and reports, and thousands of declassified intelligence reports and satellite imagery, as well as author interviews and personal experience. An Enormous Crime is a singular work, telling a story unlike any other in our history: ugly, harrowing, and true.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Garrett County Press
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781939430021

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The Bamboo Cage by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf

After the Vietnam War ground to a bloody halt, long after the boys were officially sent home, evidence remained that over 2,000 American soldiers were still missing in Southeast Asia. In this shocking expose, journalist Nigel Cawthorne examines the evidence -- from CIA documents and Pentagon files to the streets of Hanoi.

Author : Kilty Binger
Publisher : Lothrop, Lee and Shepard Books
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : PSU:000032248760

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Mary Guy by Kilty Binger Pdf

Mary Guy finds a way to make the governor of a tiny Caribbean island repeal his laws prohibiting fun.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Prisoners of war
ISBN : 0749307226

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The Bamboo Cage by Nigel Cawthorne Pdf

Author : Peter Steinhauer
Publisher : powerHouse Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1576878805

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Cocoons by Peter Steinhauer Pdf

A 20+ year collection of photographs documenting Hong Kong's hauntingly beautiful construction sites encaged (cocooned!) in bamboo scaffolding, draped in brightly hued material. Since 1993, Peter Steinhauer has documented the many facets of Asian culture, with a keen eye for architecture, urban landscape, and man-made structures and environments. On his first visit to Hong Kong in 1994, arriving at the old Kai Tak International Airport, Steinhauer noticed a very large structure encaged in bamboo and swathed in yellow material standing out beneath a canopy of clouds, glowing against the monochromatic, urban skyline. Hong Kong is the final stronghold of the bamboo scaffolders who once practiced their trade at construction sites throughout Asia. Reproduced in this collectible book are 100 remarkable images that reflect Steinhauer's fascination with these hauntingly beautiful and monumental edifices, their bamboo scaffolding draped in brightly hued material. The title, Cocoons, is a natural choice for this body of work celebrating the giant wrapped, cocoon-like structures, later to be unveiled ceremoniously, revealing for the first time the brand-new facades.

Author : Rahul V Ghope
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798691169885

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All about Cage Culture by Rahul V Ghope Pdf

Cage is an enclosed space of rear organism in water that maintain free exchange of water with the surrounding water body, cage culture is an aquaculture production system where fish are held in floating net pens. Cage culture of fish utilizes existing water resources but encloses the fish in a cage or basket which allows water to pass freely between the fish and the pond permitting water exchange and waste removal into the surrounding water. India is having big potential of Cage Culture, because lake is having deep and sufficient water availability.