The Road Past Mandalay

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080718146

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The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters Pdf

A personal story of the Second World War in Burms. India, and Mandalay.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : India
ISBN : 0304361569

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Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters Pdf

The first of John Master's evocative memoirs about life in the Gurkhas in India on the cusp of WWII John Masters was a soldier before he became a bestselling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of eighteen and was commissioned into the 4th Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent north-west frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. BUGLES AND A TIGER is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War. Still very much the army depicted by Kipling, it stands on the threshold of a war that will transform the world. This book is the first of three volumes of autobiography that touched a chord in the post-war world.

Author : Mra Sanʻʺ Taṅʻʹ,Mya T. Tint
Publisher : Asian Portraits
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Alan Warren
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Robert Johnson
Publisher : Xulon Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : MiMi Aye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015053514199

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Beyond the Last Village by Alan Rabinowitz Pdf

The author describes his journey through the uncharted lands of northern Myanmar, describing new species and trying to persuade the government to preserve the land.

Author : Thant Myint-U
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571266067

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The River of Lost Footsteps by Thant Myint-U Pdf

Burma is currently ruled by a harsh dictatorship unmoved by Western activists and sanctions. It is also the sight of the longest-running conflict in the world. Drawing both on his own family's stories and his years of hands-on political experience working with the United Nations, Thant Myint-U has written an illuminating account of how Burma's rich past informs its violent present, and of how the world might transform the country's future. In The River of Lost Footsteps, Thant Myint-U tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling. His maternal grandfather, U Thant, rose from being the schoolmaster of a small town in the Irrawaddy Delta to become the UN secretary-general in the 1960s. And on his father's side, the author is descended from a long line of courtiers who served at Burma's Court of Ava for nearly two centuries. Through their stories and others, he portrays Burma's rise and decline in the modern world, from the time of Portuguese pirates and renegade Mughal princes through the decades of British colonialism, the devastation of World War II, a sixty-year civil war that continues today, military repression and the immergence of Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.The River of Lost Footsteps is a work both personal and global, a distinctive contribution that makes Burma accessible and enthralling. Thant Myint-U is the author of Where China Meets India and has written articles for the New York Times, the Washington Post and the New Statesman.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Penguin Books India
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : India
ISBN : 9780143064336

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Nightrunners of Bengal by John Masters Pdf

Author : George MacDonald Fraser
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780007325764

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Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser Pdf

‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John Keegan

Author : Andrew Selth
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180948654

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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

Author : John Masters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:30000100364284

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The Road Past Mandalay by John Masters Pdf

Author : Herbert Reginald Robinson
Publisher : Asian Portraits
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015060381251

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A Modern De Quincey by Herbert Reginald Robinson Pdf

In 1923, upon completion of a posting in northern Burma, Captain Robinson returned to Mandalay to await a new assignment. While there he sampled the pleasures of the opium den. This is his account of the seduction of a naive young romantic by the East and of his narrow escape from death. Captain Robinson, completing a posting as a young British administrator in remote northern Burma, returned to Mandalay in 1923 to await a new assignment. One evening, Robinson and two friends, came upon an opium den. While his friends called it a night, Robinson stayed on to sample the forbidden