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Fighting Malaria on the River Kwai

Author : Jonathan R.C. Green
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480877573
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Malaria on the River Kwai written by Jonathan R.C. Green and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, 12,000 Allied prisoners of war died while constructing a bridge over the river Kwai in western Thailand, and then a railway through the thick jungles of the Kwai Valley all the way to Burma. Decades later, during the Vietnam War, Jonathan R.C. Green enlisted as a medic in the U.S. Army, expecting to take care of wounded Americans and Asians, but was kept in a Stateside assignment instead, much to his frustration. So, shortly before his enlistment expired, he applied for the Peace Corps and asked to serve in Southeast Asia. Six weeks after leaving the Army, he arrived in Thailand as a Peace Corps Volunteer. His job assignment was to fight malaria by controlling the mosquito populations in remote jungle villages in the valley of the infamous River Kwai. Besides the hazards posed by snakes, scorpions and centipedes in the jungle, he ran the risk of contracting malaria, dengue fever and other mosquito-borne diseases, while suffering severe bouts of dysentery. He often had to live on a monotonous diet of rice, bamboo shoots and hot sauce three times a day, with the only reasonably safe drinking water coming from rain barrels teeming with mosquito larvae. While becoming accustomed to a rugged lifestyle in the jungle, he had to quickly learn a complex language and exotic culture. An inadvertent misstep in manners could have damaged his credibility, and hence the outcome of his undertaking, as badly as catching the disease he was supposed to be fighting.

1000 Days on the River Kwai

Author : Cary Owtram
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1473897823
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book 1000 Days on the River Kwai written by Cary Owtram and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir. Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a half years in grueling captivity in Thailand, first in Ban Pong Camp and then Chungkai Camp—one of the largest POW camps in the region. Owtram was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, making him responsible for his fellow prisoners—a heavy responsibility added to the general deprivation and hardship suffered by all. During that time, Owtram kept a secret diary in which he recorded the brutal experience of surviving day to day and attempting to deal with their harsh and unpredictable Japanese captors. It is not only the prisoners who suffered, but also their families at home. The postscript by Owtram’s daughters vividly demonstrates the agonies of doubt and worry that loved ones went through and the effect of the experience on all.

Last Post over the River Kwai

Author : Cecil Lowry
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526736926
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Last Post over the River Kwai written by Cecil Lowry and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys during the Second World War.Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance. After heavy losses the survivors found themselves POWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the humiliating surrender which Churchill described as Britains worst ever military disaster.The next three and a half years saw members of the Battalion suffering appalling hardship at the hands of their brutal Japanese captors, whether in Singapore, on the Death Railway, Malaya or Japan itself, as wells as on hellships. Many died but remarkably the majority survived to tell their story. Their prolonged captivity with unbelievable hardship, deprivation and cruelty makes for distressing but inspiring reading.

Survivor on the River Kwai

Author : Reg Twigg
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241965101
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Survivor on the River Kwai written by Reg Twigg and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Survivor on the River Kwai is the heartbreaking story of Reg Twigg, one of the last men standing from a forgotten war. Called up in 1940, Reg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. What followed were three years of hell, moving from one camp to another along the Kwai river, building the infamous Burma railway for the all-conquering Japanese Imperial Army. Some prisoners coped with the endless brutality of the code of Bushido by turning to God; others clung to whatever was left of the regimental structure. Reg made the deadly jungle, with its malaria, cholera, swollen rivers, lethal snakes and exhausting heat, work for him. With an ingenuity that is astonishing, he trapped and ate lizards, harvested pumpkins from the canteen rubbish heap and with his homemade razor became camp barber. That Reg survived is testimony to his own courage and determination, his will to beat the alien brutality of camp guards who had nothing but contempt for him and his fellow POWs. He was a risk taker whose survival strategies sometimes bordered on genius. Reg's story is unique. Reg Twigg was born at Wigston (Leicester) barracks on 16 December 1913. He was called up to the Leicestershire Regiment in 1940 but instead of fighting Hitler he was sent to the Far East, stationed at Singapore. When captured by the Japanese, he decided he would do everything to survive. After his repatriation from the Far East, Reg returned to Leicester. With his family he returned to Thailand in 2006, and revisited the sites of the POW camps. Reg died in 2013, at the age of ninety-nine, two weeks before the publication of this book.

Survival and Separation on the River Kwai

Author : Ian Roberts
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399049593
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Survival and Separation on the River Kwai written by Ian Roberts and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-07-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Roberts was conscripted in 1939 into the 1/5 Sherwood Foresters. After service in France and evacuation from Brest in 1940, the Battalion were sent to the Far East arriving in Singapore three weeks before the surrender. Eric became a prisoner of the Japanese and was sent to the Burma-Thai Railway. His Commanding Officer was Lieutenant Colonel Lilly who was later to become the inspiration for Colonel Nicholson in the film Bridge on the River Kwai. Eric’s fiancée, Eunice Lowe, learnt of his capture by chance from a friend. Amidst speculation that Eric had escaped, Eunice began a campaign to learn the truth but it was not until 26 May 1943 that she received confirmation that he was a POW. From 1942 to 1945, while suffering extreme hardship and abuse from his captors, Eric was permitted to send just three postcards. Despite Eunice writing every week, only a handful were received by him in late 1944. After liberation, Eric returned home and married Eunice in 1946. Fortunately, Eric wrote a graphic memoir of his captivity in the post-war years and Eunice’s correspondence has been preserved. The two combined make for an unusual and moving record of a young couple’s testing yet very different experiences.

Things I Remember

Author : Patrick Ellam
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450212573
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Things I Remember written by Patrick Ellam and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author is known throughout the world for his daring exploits in the world of sailing. This book gives us a glimpse of his memoirs and experiences that make crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a "18 foot boat seem easy". With a British sense of humor, he tells us his early memories of home, of private schools and the second World War, when he served in the British Expeditionary Force in France and commanded an anti aircraft site with 100 men and 100 women defending London against German bombers. Then a notice said: " VOLUNTEERS ARE URGENTLY NEEDED TO DROP ALONE BY PARACHUTE BEHIND THE ENEMY LINES." So he volunteered and went through Spy School, learning Burglary, Forgery, knife fighting and other useful tools and techniques. His work in German occupied France for the Special Executive was "Top Secret" and could not be told for 50 years until he wrote "Things I Remember". He then joined Force 136 in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and was preparing to parachute into Singapore when the atom bombs were dropped and the war ended. Fasten your seat belts for a roller coaster ride, with laughter and terror, through 20 years of one man's life.

Bangkok

Author : Hanna Tichy
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Bangkok written by Hanna Tichy and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lucky Johnny

Author : Johnny Sherwood
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1444790323
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (447 download)

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Download or read book Lucky Johnny written by Johnny Sherwood and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938 Johnny Sherwood was a young professional footballer on the brink of an England career, touring the world with the all-star British team the Islington Corinthians. By 1942 he was a soldier surrendering to the Japanese at the siege of Singapore. Taken prisoner he was sent to a POW camp deep in the heart of the Thai jungle, where he was starved, beaten, and forced to build the notorious 'railway of death' on the River Kwai. Johnny kept his and his men's spirits up with tales of his footballing past, even organising matches until he and the other prisoners became too weak to play. One day, he even encountered a brutal Japanese guard, and was shocked to recognise him as a Japanese footballer Johnny had played against. Many years after Johnny's death, his grandson Michael discovered an old manuscript hidden in the attic of his mother's house. It was Johnny's own account of his wartime experiences - the story too horrific to reveal in full to his loved ones. In the tradition of bestselling memoirs like The Railway Man, Lucky Johnny is an inspirational tale of survival against the odds.

Fighting Proud

Author : Stephen Bourne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786732157
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Fighting Proud written by Stephen Bourne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives of these men, from RAF hero Ian Gleed - a Flying Ace twice honoured for bravery by King George VI - to the infantry officers serving in the trenches on the Western Front in WWI - many of whom led the charges into machine-gun fire only to find themselves court-martialled after the war for indecent behaviour. Behind the lines, Alan Turing's work on breaking the 'enigma machine' and subsequent persecution contrasts with the many stories of love and courage in Blitzed-out London, with new wartime diaries and letters unearthed for the first time. Bourne tells the bitterly sad story of Ivor Novello, who wrote the WWI anthem 'Keep the Home Fires Burning', and the crucial work of Noel Coward - who was hated by Hitler for his work entertaining the troops. Fighting Proud also includes a wealth of long-suppressed wartime photography subsequently ignored by mainstream historians. This book is a monument to the bravery, sacrifice and honour shown by a persecuted minority, who contributed during Britain's hour of need.

"Where I Came In-- " in China, Burma, India

Author : Robert James Kadel
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781563114687
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (146 download)

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Download or read book "Where I Came In-- " in China, Burma, India written by Robert James Kadel and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death Camps of the River Kwai

Author : Thomas Pounder
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Death Camps of the River Kwai written by Thomas Pounder and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Women in War Films

Author : Ralph Donald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442234474
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Women in War Films written by Ralph Donald and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War has been depicted in cinema for more than a century, from early silent films to more recent blockbusters such as Saving Private Ryan and Lone Survivor. Most war films, especially combat films, are about men engaged in battle. But while Hollywood has reinforced the cultural stereotype of war as a man’s job, women have not been completely invisible in many of these films, whether waiting for their men to return home or standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts on the battlefield. In Women in War Films: From Helpless Heroine to G.I. Jane, Ralph Donald and Karen MacDonald examine the representations of females in war throughout the history of film. They identify various types of women portrayed in these films, from home-front wives and daughters supporting their loved ones from afar to nurses and doctors stationed near the front lines of combat. The authors also look at depictions of foreign females who comfort homesick soldiers, ordinary women who unexpectedly encounter the enemy, female spies, and modern enlistees taking on roles traditionally reserved for men. Through these representations, the authors explore what war films say about the culture that created them and the social construction of reality that these films assert. The book covers an array of war films distributed in the United States, including Hearts of the World, Wings, Mata Hari, Mrs. Miniver, Casablanca, Cry “Havoc,”Since You Went Away, The Best Years of Our Lives, From Here to Eternity, The Americanization of Emily, M*A*S*H, Coming Home, Courage under Fire, G.I. Jane, and Zero Dark Thirty. Featuring an extensive filmography, Women in War Films will appeal to scholars of gender studies, history, and film, as well as to readers interested in the evolving portrayals of females in military-related cinema.

Seas and Waterways of the World [2 volumes]

Author : John Zumerchik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851097163
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Seas and Waterways of the World [2 volumes] written by John Zumerchik and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-12 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive encyclopedia on the history of the vast and varied ways human beings have used the world's waterways for business, protection, and recreation. Seas and Waterways of the World: An Encyclopedia of History, Uses, and Issues offers a comprehensive introduction to humanity's historical reliance on the world's seas and waterways and how that reliance continues to evolve. Over the course of two volumes, this extraordinary resource describes the world's major nautical features, the wide variety of uses for those waterways, and a number of essential issues arising from water-borne commerce. The encyclopedia marks the emergence of the aquarium, cruise, energy, fishing, insurance, mining, trade, transportation, recreation, and sport industries, and includes entries on harbors, ports, and coastal development that play a part in the economics of commercial water use. Also included is coverage of a number of significant themes such as the rise and fall of the Erie Canal as the gateway to the Midwest, and the declining popularity of the Panama Canal.

Ireland-Related Featured Articles

Author :
Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ireland-Related Featured Articles written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Life and Death of Peter Sellers

Author : Roger Lewis
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832481
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book The Life and Death of Peter Sellers written by Roger Lewis and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the life and career of the British actor, discusses his major roles, and depicts his complex and often difficult personality

Chaplain on the River Kwai

Author : Chaim Nussbaum
Publisher : Ulverscroft
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Chaplain on the River Kwai written by Chaim Nussbaum and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 1988 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Personal Perspectives

Author : Timothy C. Dowling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851095802
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Personal Perspectives written by Timothy C. Dowling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling account of the personal experiences of groups who were affected by World War II, both on and off the battlefields. Personal Perspectives: World War II brings to life the experiences of specific segments of soldiers and civilians as they were affected by the conflict, capturing special characteristics of each group and the unique ways they experienced the war. Twelve essays written by top international scholars portray what it was really like to experience the war for groups ranging from marines, naval aviators, and liberators of concentration camps to prisoners of war, refugees, and women in factories. Of interest to both students and nonexperts, the book tells the stories of Japanese Americans forced into internment camps and African Americans who experienced intense discrimination, the call to activism, and opportunity in the armed forces. It offers the perspectives of Navajo "code talkers," diplomats like U.S. ambassador to Poland Anthony J. Biddle, who fled his post to avoid death, and scientists who worked on the Manhattan project, thereby introducing the most destructive form of warfare known to humanity.