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Author: Allana Corbin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
Book Description
Author's account of the lives of her great-grandmother, great-aunt and grandparents who were caught up in the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in late 1941. Relates how along with hundreds of other civilians they were imprisoned by the Japanese in the Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. Records the privations endured and the family's journey to Australia after they were liberated in 1945. Includes photos and bibliography. Author is a commercial helicopter pilot and motivational speaker who previously wrote 'The Best I Can Be'.
Author: Allana Corbin Publisher: ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 404
Book Description
Author's account of the lives of her great-grandmother, great-aunt and grandparents who were caught up in the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong in late 1941. Relates how along with hundreds of other civilians they were imprisoned by the Japanese in the Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. Records the privations endured and the family's journey to Australia after they were liberated in 1945. Includes photos and bibliography. Author is a commercial helicopter pilot and motivational speaker who previously wrote 'The Best I Can Be'.
Author: Sarah Kovner Publisher: ISBN: 067473761X Category : Languages : en Pages : 337
Book Description
Many Allied POWs in the Pacific theater of World War II suffered terribly. But abuse wasn't a matter of Japanese policy, as is commonly assumed. Sarah Kovner shows poorly trained guards and rogue commanders inflicted the most horrific damage. Camps close to centers of imperial power tended to be less violent, and many POWs died from friendly fire.
Author: Brian MacArthur Publisher: Abacus Software ISBN: 9780349119373 Category : Prisoners of war Languages : en Pages : 494
Book Description
Many of the prisoners held by the Japanese during the WWII were so scarred by their experiences that they could not discuss them even with their families. They believed that their brutal treatment was, literally, incomprehensible. But some prisoners were determined that posterity should know how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death or transported on 'hellships', used as slave labour - most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway - and how thousands died from tropical diseases. They risked torture or execution to draw and write diaries that they hid wherever they could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades. The diaries tell of inhumanity and degradation, but there are also inspirational stories of courage, comradeship and compassion. When men have unwillingly plumbed the depths of human misery, said one prisoner, the artist Ronald Searle, they form a silent understanding of what solidarity, friendship and kindness to others can mean. The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners drawn on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that solidarity, friendship and kindness.
Author: Ashley T. Rubin Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108484948 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 413
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A compelling examination of the highly criticized use of long-term solitary confinement in Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary during the nineteenth century.
Author: Jeffrey Goldberg Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307265978 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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During the first Palestinian uprising in 1990, Jeffrey Goldberg – an American Jew – served as a guard at the largest prison camp in Israel. One of his prisoners was Rafiq, a rising leader in the PLO. Overcoming their fears and prejudices, the two men began a dialogue that, over more than a decade, grew into a remarkable friendship. Now an award-winning journalist, Goldberg describes their relationship and their confrontations over religious, cultural, and political differences; through these discussions, he attempts to make sense of the conflicts in this embattled region, revealing the truths that lie buried within the animosities of the Middle East.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific Publisher: ISBN: Category : Korean War, 1950-1953 Languages : en Pages : 72
Author: Barbara Hately-Broad Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1845207246 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
Millions of servicemen of the belligerent powers were taken prisoner during World War II. Until recently, the popular image of these men has been framed by tales of heroic escape or immense suffering at the hands of malevolent captors. For the vast majority, however, the reality was very different. Their history, both during and after the War, has largely been ignored in the grand narratives of the conflict. This collection brings together new scholarship, largely based on sources from previously unavailable Eastern European or Japanese archives. Authors highlight a number of important comparatives. Whereas for the British and Americans held by the Germans and Japanese, the end of the war meant a swift repatriation and demobilization, for the Germans, it heralded the beginning of an imprisonment that, for some, lasted until 1956. These and many more moving stories are revealed here for the first time.
Author: Pennsylvania. State Penitentiary for the Eastern District, Philadelphia Publisher: ISBN: Category : Criminal statistics Languages : en Pages : 698
Author: Allana Corbin
Author: Allana Corbin
Author: Sarah Kovner
Author: Brian MacArthur
Author: Ashley T. Rubin
Author: Jeffrey Goldberg
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on the Far East and the Pacific
Author: Walter M. Gibson
Author: Barbara Hately-Broad
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Author: Pennsylvania. State Penitentiary for the Eastern District, Philadelphia