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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation

Edgar A. Porter,Ran Ying Porter
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Author : Edgar A. Porter,Ran Ying Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9462989737

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Japanese Reflections on World War II and the American Occupation by Edgar A. Porter,Ran Ying Porter Pdf

This book presents an unforgettably honest account of the effects of World War II and the ensuing American occupation in Japan's Oita prefecture, from the perspective of the Japanese citizens who experienced it. Through harrowing firsthand accounts from more than forty Japanese men and women who lived in the region, we get a strikingly detailed picture of the dreadful experiences of wartime life in Japan. The interviewees are wide-ranging and include students, housewives, nurses, teachers, journalists, soldiers, sailors, Kamikaze pilots, and munitions factory workers. And their collective stories range from early, spirited support for the war on to more reflective later views in the wake of the devastating losses of friends and family members to air raids, and finally into periods of hunger and fear of the American occupiers. Detailed archival materials buttress the personal accounts, and the result is an unprecedented picture of the war as felt in a single region of Japan.

Lost in the Victory

Susan Johnson Hadler,Ann Bennett Mix
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Author : Susan Johnson Hadler,Ann Bennett Mix
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574410334

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Lost in the Victory by Susan Johnson Hadler,Ann Bennett Mix Pdf

In 1990, Ann Mix began a search to find out about her father, who had been killed in World War II. She eventually met others whose fathers had been killed and discovered that, like her, they had little information about their fathers. As a result, Ann founded the American WWII Orphans Network to locate war orphans and become a despository for sources of information about WWII servicemen who were fathers.

Japanese Eyes American Hearts

Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board
Japanese Eyes American Hearts Book PDF

Author : Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824821440

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Japanese Eyes American Hearts by Hawaii Nikkei History Editorial Board Pdf

Japanese Eyes... American Heart is a rare and powerful collection of personal thoughts written by the soldiers themselves, reflections of the men's thoughts as recorded in diaries and letters sent home to family members and friends, and other expressions about an episode that marked a turning point in the lives of many.

Code Girls

Liza Mundy
Code Girls Book PDF

Author : Liza Mundy
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780316352550

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Code Girls by Liza Mundy Pdf

The award-winning New York Times bestseller about the American women who secretly served as codebreakers during World War II--a "prodigiously researched and engrossing" (New York Times) book that "shines a light on a hidden chapter of American history" (Denver Post). Recruited by the U.S. Army and Navy from small towns and elite colleges, more than ten thousand women served as codebreakers during World War II. While their brothers and boyfriends took up arms, these women moved to Washington and learned the meticulous work of code-breaking. Their efforts shortened the war, saved countless lives, and gave them access to careers previously denied to them. A strict vow of secrecy nearly erased their efforts from history; now, through dazzling research and interviews with surviving code girls, bestselling author Liza Mundy brings to life this riveting and vital story of American courage, service, and scientific accomplishment.

Flights of Passage

Samuel Hynes,Samuel Lynn Hynes
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Author : Samuel Hynes,Samuel Lynn Hynes
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Bomber pilots
ISBN : 0747578117

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Flights of Passage by Samuel Hynes,Samuel Lynn Hynes Pdf

A gripping, literary recollection of a pilot's experiences during WWII.

Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945

Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Daily Life in Wartime Japan 1940 1945 Book PDF

Author : Samuel Hideo Yamashita
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780700624621

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Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 by Samuel Hideo Yamashita Pdf

The population of wartime Japan (1940–1945) has remained a largely faceless enemy to most Americans thanks to the distortions of US wartime propaganda, popular culture, and news reports. At a time when this country’s wartime experiences are slowly and belatedly coming into focus, this remarkable book by Samuel Yamashita offers an intimate picture of what life was like for ordinary Japanese during the war. Drawing upon diaries and letters written by servicemen, kamikaze pilots, evacuated children, and teenagers and adults mobilized for war work in the big cities, provincial towns, and rural communities, Yamashita lets us hear for the first time the rich mix of voices speaking in every register during the course of the war. Here is the housewife struggling to feed her family while supporting the war effort; the eager conscript from snow country enduring the harshest, most abusive training imaginable in order to learn how to fly; the Tokyo teenagers made to work in wartime factories; the children taken from cities to live in the countryside away from their families and with little food and no privacy; the Kyushu farmers pressured to grow ever more rice and wheat with fewer hands and less fertilizer; and the Kyoto octogenarian driven to thoughts of suicide by his inability to contribute to the war. How these ordinary Japanese coped with wartime hardships and dangers, and how their views changed over time as disillusionment, impatience, and sometimes despair set in, is the story that Yamashita’s book brings to the American reader. A history of life during war, Daily Life in Wartime Japan, 1940–1945 is also a glimpse of a now-vanished world.

Worshipping the Myths of World War II

Edward W. Wood, Jr.
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Author : Edward W. Wood, Jr.
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597973335

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Worshipping the Myths of World War II by Edward W. Wood, Jr. Pdf

Is any war a "good war"? In Worshipping the Myths of World War II, the author takes a critical look at what he sees is America's dedication to war as panacea and as Washington's primary method for leading the world. Articulating why he believes the lessons of World War II are profoundly relevant to today's events, Edward W. Wood, Jr., reflects on such topics as the killing of innocents, which became increasingly accepted during the war; on how actual killing is usually ignored in war discussions and reporting; on the lifetime impact of frontline duty, which he knew firsthand; on the widely accepted concept of "the Greatest Generation"; on present criteria for judging war memoirs and novels; on the fallacy that the United States won the war largely on its own; and on the effect that the Holocaust had on our national concepts of evil and purity. His final chapter centers on how the "war on terror" is different from World War II--and why the myths created about the latter hide that reality.

An Infantryman's Reflections on World War II

Tom Lacey
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Author : Tom Lacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 107342037X

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An Infantryman's Reflections on World War II by Tom Lacey Pdf

Ever wonder what a soldier in the Battle of the Bulge encountered? This book was written by a WWII Infantryman who volunteered after hearing news of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Tom Lacey was fascinated with aeronautics as a young boy, so naturally, he wanted to be trained to become a pilot; instead, he was assigned to the Army Infantry and volunteered to take a radioman post. Barraged by German artillery, with radio connection completely lost, Lacey later realized he survived the beginnings of the Battle of the Bulge. Of the 200 men in his unit, he was one of 12 to survive from the time of their entry into combat. Rather than discussing the traumas of war, Tom writes of experiencing friendship, heroism, benevolence, innovation, close calls - even humor and sacred beautiful moments. Join him as he recounts the characters from his personal experiences during this intense period in American history that are sure to inspire!

Liberando: Reflections of a Reluctant Warrior

John E. Horn
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Author : John E. Horn
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359743889

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Liberando: Reflections of a Reluctant Warrior by John E. Horn Pdf

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series. John H. Horn's wartime experiences as a B-24 pilot in the famous "Liberandos" bomb group, the 376th, are recounted in this work by his son, John E. Horn. Horn was one of millions in World War II who did their jobs. He was mighty lucky and blessed to have come home unscathed. Most of the real learning about air combat was on the job. Military schools and training don't really produce combat-ready men and women. They produce attitudes as well as thinking and re-acting skills. Actual combat is the real teacher. John was forever grateful to his crew and the leaders of the 376th Bomb Group who suffered his inexperience and naiveté. Without their patience, he would not have developed into a competent, safe, and living combat pilot. 31 photos, illustrations, maps.

The Greatest Generation Speaks

Tom Brokaw
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Author : Tom Brokaw
Publisher : Random House
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375504631

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The Greatest Generation Speaks by Tom Brokaw Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartwarming gift for the holidays—a powerful selection of the letters Tom Brokaw received in response to his towering #1 bestseller The Greatest Generation. “When I wrote about the men and women who came out of the Depression, who won great victories and made lasting sacrifices in World War II and then returned home to begin building the world we have today—the people I called the Greatest Generation—it was my way of saying thank you. But I was not prepared for the avalanche of letters and responses touched off by that book. I had written a book about America, and now America was writing back.”—Tom Brokaw In the phenomenal bestseller The Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw paid affecting tribute to those who gave the world so much—and who left an enduring legacy of courage and conviction. The Greatest Generation Speaks collects the vast outpouring of letters Brokaw received from men and women eager to share their intensely personal stories of a momentous time in America’s history. Some letters tell of the front during the war, others recall loved ones in harm’s way in distant places. They offer first-hand accounts of battles, poignant reflections on loneliness, exuberant expressions of love, and somber feelings of loss. As Brokaw notes, “If we are to heed the past to prepare for the future, we should listen to these quiet voices of a generation that speaks to us of duty and honor, sacrifice and accomplishment. I hope more of their stories will be preserved and cherished as reminders of all that we owe them and all that we can learn from them.”

The Warriors

Jesse Glenn Gray
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Author : Jesse Glenn Gray
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803270763

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The Warriors by Jesse Glenn Gray Pdf

J. Glenn Gray entered the army in May 1941, having been drafted on the same day he achieved his doctorate in philosophy from Columbia University. Over a decade after his discharge in 1945, Gray began to reread his war journals and letters in an attempt to find meaning in his wartime experiences. The result is a philosophical meditation on what warfare does to us and why soldiers act as they do.

Last Reflections on a War

Bernard B. Fall
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Author : Bernard B. Fall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : 0811709043

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Last Reflections on a War by Bernard B. Fall Pdf

Bernard B Fall was 40 years old when he was killed by a booby trap in northern South Vietnam on February 21, 1967. By the time of his death he had already authored seven books on Vietnam. This book, first published shortly after Dr Fall's death, is a tribute to his life's work. It contains the only known autobiographical account of his life, several previously unpublished articles, notes for 'Street Without Joy Revisited', and transcripts of Dr Fall's tape recordings, including his last recorded words.

Kamikaze Diaries

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
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Author : Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226620923

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Kamikaze Diaries by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney Pdf

“We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives.” So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished during the war. Outside of Japan, these kamikaze pilots were considered unbridled fanatics and chauvinists who willingly sacrificed their lives for the emperor. But the writings explored here by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney clearly and eloquently speak otherwise. A significant number of the kamikaze were university students who were drafted and forced to volunteer for this desperate military operation. Such young men were the intellectual elite of modern Japan: steeped in the classics and major works of philosophy, they took Descartes’ “I think, therefore I am” as their motto. And in their diaries and correspondence, as Ohnuki-Tierney shows, these student soldiers wrote long and often heartbreaking soliloquies in which they poured out their anguish and fear, expressed profound ambivalence toward the war, and articulated thoughtful opposition to their nation’s imperialism. A salutary correction to the many caricatures of the kamikaze, this poignant work will be essential to anyone interested in the history of Japan and World War II.

Reflections of a Warrior

Elwood J.C. Kureth
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Author : Elwood J.C. Kureth
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781416598350

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Reflections of a Warrior by Elwood J.C. Kureth Pdf

Reflections of a Warrior is a Medal of Honor winner's true story—a Green Beret's six deadly years in the killing fields of Vietnam. PFC Franklin Miller arrived in Vietnam in March 1966, and saw his first combat in a Reconnaissance Platoon. So began an odyssey that would make him into one of the most feared and respected men in the Special Forces elite, who made their own rules in the chaos of war. In the exclusive world of the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observation Group, Miller ran missions deep into enemy territory to gather intelligence, snatch prisoners, and to kill. Leading small bands of battle-hardened Montagnard and Meo tribesmen, he was fierce and fearless—fighting army policy to stay in combat for six tours. On a top-secret mission in 1970, Miller and a handful of men, all critically injured, held off the NVA in an incredible Alamo-like stand—for which he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. When his time in Southeast Asia ended, he had also received the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, an Air Medal, and six Purple Hearts. This is his incredible story.

Notes on a Century

Bernard Lewis,Buntzie Ellis Churchill
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Author : Bernard Lewis,Buntzie Ellis Churchill
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780297867036

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Notes on a Century by Bernard Lewis,Buntzie Ellis Churchill Pdf

The memoirs of the greatest historian of the Middle East, Professor Bernard Lewis. After 9/11, people who had never given much thought to the politics of the Middle East found themselves wondering why there was such rage brewing in the region. Many of them turned to Bernard Lewis for an explanation. The world's pre-eminent historian of the Middle East, Lewis was among the first to identify the phenomenon of Islamic fundamentalism. In this exceptional memoir, he looks back over his long career - taking us from his discovery of the Crusades, as a young boy in London, and his service in British intelligence during the Second World War, through to the Iraq wars, the crisis with Iran, and the great upheavals of the Arab Spring. Over the course of his distinguished career, he has at times been as much a player in political events as well as a scholar. He has advised monarchs, presidents, prime ministers and dissidents in the Middle East and elsewhere. Now 95, and still sharper than most college students, he writes with barbed wit about the people he has known and the events he has witnessed and participated in. No subject is more fraught in the Middle East than history - and so Bernard Lewis has found himself unexpectedly part of the story that he tells in this extraordinary memoir of a life that spans the 20th century, and has already had a great impact on the 21st.