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Download or read book A Cruel Captivity written by Ellie Taylor and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The harrowing story of the brutality and cruelty of life in a Japanese POW camp has been told in many books but this is a novel and sensitive presentation.” —Firetrench Differing in a number of respects from other moving POW accounts, this book covers the experiences of twenty-two servicemen from the Army, Royal Navy, RAF and volunteer forces who were held captive in numerous locations through South East Asia including Thailand, Burma, Hong Kong, the Spice Islands and Japan itself. Some had to endure the inhumane conditions during hazardous journeys on the hellships and all suffered appalling cruelty, starvation, disease and prolonged degradation on an epic scale. Yet these were the fortunate ones—many thousands perished and their graves were unmarked. The book also examines the differing mental and physical effects that the prisoners’ captors’ cruel treatment had on them. The author’s handling of the “legacy” of their experiences during the post-war years makes this moving book particularly important. For a full understanding of this dreadful aspect of the Second World War, A Cruel Captivity is a must-read. “Ellie Taylor has produced a poignant tale of not only the suffering of these men but of the comradeship that sustained the survivors. The work has been well researched and help was received from the Imperial War Museum, Java FEPOW club and the Thai Burma Railway Centre.” —The Army Rumour Service (ARRSE)
Book Synopsis Life and Death in Captivity by : Geoffrey P. R. Wallace
Download or read book Life and Death in Captivity written by Geoffrey P. R. Wallace and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Life and Death in Captivity, Geoffrey P. R. Wallace explores the profound differences in the ways captives are treated during armed conflict. Wallace focuses on the dual role played by regime type and the nature of the conflict in determining whether captor states opt for brutality or mercy.
Book Synopsis Captive in Iran by : Maryam Rostampour
Download or read book Captive in Iran written by Maryam Rostampour and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh knew they were putting their lives on the line. Islamic laws in Iran forbade them from sharing their Christian beliefs, but in three years, they’d covertly put New Testaments into the hands of twenty thousand of their countrymen and started two secret house churches. In 2009, they were finally arrested and held in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, a place where inmates are routinely tortured and executions are commonplace. In the face of ruthless interrogations, persecution, and a death sentence, Maryam and Marziyeh chose to take the radical—and dangerous—step of sharing their faith inside the very walls of the government stronghold that was meant to silence them. In Captive in Iran, two courageous Iranian women recount how God used their 259 days in Evin Prison to shine His light into one of the world’s darkest places, giving hope to those who had lost everything and showing love to those in despair.
Book Synopsis Chastised in Captivity by : Miranda Birch
Download or read book Chastised in Captivity written by Miranda Birch and published by Miranda Birch. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miss “Butter wouldn't melt in her mouth” Mills is a secret dominatrix, and having caught the school caretaker in flagrante delicto with an underage pupil (see the previous story, "Caught & Chastised"), she now holds him captive in her house for the duration of the school holidays. It is going to be a long, hot summer for Frank Briggs — and not at all the sort of summer holiday Cliff Richard had in mind, methinks!
Book Synopsis Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic by : Lisa Voigt
Download or read book Writing Captivity in the Early Modern Atlantic written by Lisa Voigt and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on texts written by and about European and Euro-American captives in a variety of languages and genres, Lisa Voigt explores the role of captivity in the production of knowledge, identity, and authority in the early modern imperial world. The practice of captivity attests to the violence that infused relations between peoples of different faiths and cultures in an age of extraordinary religious divisiveness and imperial ambitions. But as Voigt demonstrates, tales of Christian captives among Muslims, Amerindians, and hostile European nations were not only exploited in order to emphasize cultural oppositions and geopolitical hostilities. Voigt's examination of Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts reveals another early modern discourse about captivity--one that valorized the knowledge and mediating abilities acquired by captives through cross-cultural experience. Voigt demonstrates how the flexible identities of captives complicate clear-cut national, colonial, and religious distinctions. Using fictional and nonfictional, canonical and little-known works about captivity in Europe, North Africa, and the Americas, Voigt exposes the circulation of texts, discourses, and peoples across cultural borders and in both directions across the Atlantic.
Book Synopsis Cutter's Island by : Vincent Panella
Download or read book Cutter's Island written by Vincent Panella and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This vivid short novel . . . of Caesar’s youthful adventure. . . . Matches the film Gladiator in its vigorous, viscerally affecting depiction of ancient Rome.” —Publishers Weekly Most of us are familiar with the Caesar of Shakespeare and Shaw. We know him primarily as the manipulative warlord and statesman. But what about the Caesar of Plutarch and Suetonius—historians who dealt with Caesar as a young man? Here, in this stunning novel, written with all the excitement and eloquence of an epic poem, we find Caesar at the age of twenty-five captured by pirates as he sails to the Island of Rhodes to study rhetoric with the renowned Apollonias Moon. “An alternately rousing and touching adventure tale that offers an intriguing glimpse into the future dictator's psyche...[and] a panoramic view of Rome. . . . Stirring.” —Booklist “ . . . A lyric, swift and moving, swashbuckling tale” —Robert Fagles, award-winning translator of The Iliad “Cutter’s Island is a perfect flawless gem, without a false note anywhere.” —Steven Pressfield, author of Gates of Fire
Book Synopsis The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians by : Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman
Download or read book The Captivity of the Oatman Girls Among the Apache and Mohave Indians written by Lorenzo D. and Olive A. Oatman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riveting true-life story of two sisters taken by Indians, their life in captivity, and their brother's search for them.
Book Synopsis Even Silence Has an End by : Ingrid Betancourt
Download or read book Even Silence Has an End written by Ingrid Betancourt and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Betancourt's riveting account...is an unforgettable epic of moral courage and human endurance." -Los Angeles Times In the midst of her campaign for the Colombian presidency in 2002, Ingrid Betancourt traveled into a military-controlled region, where she was abducted by the FARC, a brutal terrorist guerrilla organization in conflict with the government. She would spend the next six and a half years captive in the depths of the Colombian jungle. Even Silence Has an End is her deeply moving and personal account of that time. The facts of her story are astounding, but it is Betancourt's indomitable spirit that drives this very special narrative-an intensely intelligent, thoughtful, and compassionate reflection on what it really means to be human.
Book Synopsis A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity by : Sandra Pollard
Download or read book A Puget Sound Orca in Captivity written by Sandra Pollard and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 8, 1970, the Southern Resident orcas of Puget Sound were herded into Penn Cove on Whidbey Island by explosives, spotter planes and speedboats in a coordinated effort to capture seven young whales. Between 1964 and 1976, dozens of these now-endangered orcas were torn from their home and sent to marine parks around the globe. Just over a decade later, all but one had died. This lone survivor is Tokitae, also known as Lolita, and she's spent most of her life performing at the Miami Seaquarium. For twenty years, the Orca Network has called for her release, and now the indigenous Lummi Nation, People of the Sea, have joined the fight. Author Sandra Pollard chronicles the extraordinary effort to bring Tokitae home.
Book Synopsis Captive, Chaste, Chastised by : Miranda Birch
Download or read book Captive, Chaste, Chastised written by Miranda Birch and published by Miranda Birch. This book was released on with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his introduction to Miss Mills' bizarre femdom way of life in Caught & Chastised, and his further use and abuse as her plaything in Chastised in Captivity, Frank Brigg's ordeal seemed to be approaching its end at last as the long summer holiday drew to an close.
Book Synopsis Death In Captivity by : Michael Gilbert
Download or read book Death In Captivity written by Michael Gilbert and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2012-09-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A suspected informer is found dead in a collapsed escape tunnel in a prisoner-of-war camp in Italy. So as to protect the tunnel the prisoners decide to move the body. But then the fascist captors declare the death to be murder and determine to execute the officer they suspect. It therefore becomes a race against time to find the true culprit.
Book Synopsis The Polish Captivity by : Henry Sutherland Edwards
Download or read book The Polish Captivity written by Henry Sutherland Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis PICCIOLA THE PRISONER OF FENESTRELLA OR CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE by : X.-B. SAINTINE
Download or read book PICCIOLA THE PRISONER OF FENESTRELLA OR CAPTIVITY CAPTIVE written by X.-B. SAINTINE and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-06-03 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the only visit which you made her at Belleville, where was the tomb of her husband, and now, alas! her own, you more than once seemed surprised with what you saw. You were struck with an old, white-haired man, who sat next her at table, whose appearance and manners were coarse, even for his class. You saw him speak familiarly with the daughter of the countess, who, beautiful as her mother had been, answered him with kindness, and even with deference, giving him the name of godfather, which, indeed, was the relation he bore to her. Perhaps you have not forgotten a flower, dried and colourless, in a rich case; and, also, that when you asked her concerning it, a saddened look stole over the countenance of the widow, and your questions remained unanswered. This answer you now have before you...FROM THE BOOK.
Book Synopsis A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by : Mary Rowlandson
Download or read book A True History of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson written by Mary Rowlandson and published by Alejandro's Libros. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Rowlandson, a Minister's wife in New England as it says underwent a cruel and inhumane treatment from the Indians that took her captive. This is a story of sorrow and pain, of faith and truth, of tears and reflections, and of grief and hopes. The Indians poured their wrath and anger against this helpless small community.As she tells us in her narrative, in the midst of it all, miraculously, one of these salvages struck her as a lost star or beam of light by offering her a Bible he had from the Medfield fight, where they committed sacking and looting. He took it from his basket and gave it to Mary and she interpreted it as a gift from her merciful God in the middle of this valley of darkness.
Book Synopsis Picciola. The Prisoner of Fenestrella, Or, Captivity Captive by : X. B. Saintine (pseud. [i.e. Joseph Xavier Boniface.])
Download or read book Picciola. The Prisoner of Fenestrella, Or, Captivity Captive written by X. B. Saintine (pseud. [i.e. Joseph Xavier Boniface.]) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars by : Charlotte Alice Baker
Download or read book True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the Old French and Indian Wars written by Charlotte Alice Baker and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Picciola, the Prisoner of Fenestrella, Or, Captivity Captive by : Xavier (M.)
Download or read book Picciola, the Prisoner of Fenestrella, Or, Captivity Captive written by Xavier (M.) and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
