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Author : Meg Parkes
Publisher : Kranji Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Notify Alec Rattray-- written by Meg Parkes and published by Kranji Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Terry Smyth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350196665
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Captive Fathers, Captive Children written by Terry Smyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are the daughters and sons of Far East prisoners of war still captivated by the stories of their fathers? What is it that compels so many of the children, after so many years, to search for the details of their fathers' captivity? And how, over the decades, have they come to terms with their childhood memories? In his book Terry Smyth treads new ground by examining the processes through which the children's memory practices came to be rooted in the POW experiences of their fathers. By following a life course approach, and a psychosocial methodology, the book demonstrates how memory and trauma were 'worked into' the social and cultural lives of individual children, and explores how the relationship between their inner psychic worlds and subsequent memory practices unfolded against a challenging and morally ambivalent geopolitical background. The book invites readers to engage with the author in a journey of exploration and self-reflection, with elements of auto-ethnography adding richness to the text. Enlivened by interview extracts, case study material and ethnographic observations, this work opens up fresh and ambitious perspectives on the personal legacies of war.
Author : Julie Summers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416526846
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Stranger in the House written by Julie Summers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-07-06 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It is as if I have been waiting for someone to ask me these questions for almost the whole of my life' From 1945, more than four million British servicemen were demobbed and sent home after the most destructive war in history. Damaged by fighting, imprisonment or simply separation from their loved ones, these men returned to a Britain that had changed in their absence. In Stranger in the House, Julie Summers tells the women's story, interviewing over a hundred women who were on the receiving end of demobilisation: the mothers, wives, sisters, who had to deal with an injured, emotionally-damaged relative; those who assumed their fiancés had died only to find them reappearing after they had married another; women who had illegitimate children following a wartime affair as well as those whose steadfast optimism was rewarded with a delightful reunion. Many of the tales are moving, some are desperately sad, others are full of humour but all provide a fascinating account of how war altered ordinary women's lives forever.
Author : Lizzie Oliver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350024147
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway written by Lizzie Oliver and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway is the first book to detail the experiences of British former prisoners of war (POWs) who were forced to construct a railway across Sumatra during the Japanese occupation. It is also the first study to be undertaken of the life-writing of POWs held captive by the Japanese during the Second World War, and the transgenerational responses in Britain to this period of captivity. This book brings to light previously unpublished materials, including: · Exceptionally rare and detailed diaries, notebooks and letters from the railway · Memoirs from Sumatra, including detailed recollections and post-war statements written by key personnel on the railway, such as Medical Officers and interpreters · Remarkable original artwork created by POWs on Sumatra · Contemporaneous photographs taken inside the camps Employing theories of life-writing, memory and war representation, including transgenerational transmission, Lizzie Oliver focuses particularly on what these documents can tell us about how former POWs tried to share, preserve and make sense of their experiences. It is a wholly original study that is of great value to Second World War scholars and anyone interested in 20th-century Southeast Asian history or war and memory.
Author : Midge Gillies
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1845137272
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (451 download)
Download or read book The Barbed-Wire University written by Midge Gillies and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A moving and eye-opening account of the lives of second world war PoWs by the daughter of a man who was captured . . . a riveting collection of stories.” —The Guardian Feature films like The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape have created the stereotype of the Second World War prisoner of war. But, as Midge Gillies shows in this groundbreaking work of social history, the true experiences of nearly half a million Allied servicemen held captive during the Second World War were nothing like the Hollywood myth—and infinitely more extraordinary. The real lives of POWs saw them respond to the tedium of a German stalag or the brutality of a Japanese camp with the most amazing ingenuity and creativity. They staged glittering shows, concerts and elaborate sporting fixtures, made exquisite ornaments—even, amid the terrible privations of the Thailand-Burma railway, improvised daring surgical techniques to save their fellow men’s lives. Whatever skills or hobbies they took with them to captivity they managed to continue and adapt—to the extent of laying out a 9-hole golf course between the huts of one German camp. They took up crafts and pastimes using materials they found around them: even the string from a Red Cross food parcel was used to make cricket balls, football nets and wigs for theatrical performances. Men studied, attended lectures, learned languages, sat for qualifications and exams, on such a scale that one camp was nicknamed “The Barbed-Wire University.” Drawing on letters home, diaries and interviews with redoubtable survivors now into their nineties, Midge Gillies recreates the daily lives of a truly remarkable group of men. “Astonishing tales of improvisation, ingenuity and courage.” —The Spectator
Author : Robert Widders
Publisher : The History Press Ireland
ISBN 13 : 1845887271
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (458 download)
Download or read book The Emperor's Irish Slaves written by Robert Widders and published by The History Press Ireland. This book was released on 2012 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Undaunted: Stories About the Irish in Australia
Author : Caroline Taggart
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789460182
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Christmas at War - True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front written by Caroline Taggart and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home to keep them safe from bombing; your husband, father and brothers off fighting goodness knows where. How in the world does one celebrate Christmas? That was the situation facing the people of Britain for six long years during the Second World War. For some of them, Christmas was an ordinary day: they couldn't afford merrymaking - and had little to be merry about. Others, particularly those with children, did what little they could. These first-hand reminiscences tell of making crackers with no crack in them and shouting 'Bang!' when they were pulled; of carol-singing in the blackout, torches carefully covered so that no passing bombers could see the light, and of the excitement of receiving a comic, a few nuts and an apple in your Christmas stocking. They recount the resourcefulness that went into makeshift dinners and hand-made presents, and the generosity of spirit that made having a happy Christmas possible in appalling conditions. From the family whose dog ate the entire Christmas roast, leaving them to enjoy 'Spam with all the trimmings', to the exhibition of hand-made toys for children in a Singapore prison camp, the stories are by turns tragic, poignant and funny. Between them, they paint an intriguing picture of a world that was in many ways kinder, less self-centred, more stoical than ours. Even if - or perhaps because - there was a war on.
Author : Andrew Lake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Changes & Chances written by Andrew Lake and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)
Download or read book New Books on Women and Feminism written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1546 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Times Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indexes the Times and its supplements.
Author : Great Britain. Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2544 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Monthly Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 2544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meg Parkes
Publisher : Carnegie Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9781910837009
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Captive Memories written by Meg Parkes and published by Carnegie Pub.. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Captive Memories' charts the fascinating history of the relationship between the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and the Far East POW veterans, using eyewitness accounts and personal perspectives of those involved.
Author : Meg Parkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910837283
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Captive Artists written by Meg Parkes and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir Bruce Gordon Seton
Publisher : Glasgow : Maclehose, Jackson
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)
Download or read book The Pipes of War written by Sir Bruce Gordon Seton and published by Glasgow : Maclehose, Jackson. This book was released on 1920 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank Williams
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492497
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Jungle Journal written by Frank Williams and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of a young Royal Artillery officer, Lieutenant Ronald Williams, who was held as a prisoner of war in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies from 1942–45. It is a true account of the alternate horror and banality of daily life, and the humor that helped the men survive the beatings, deprivation, and death of comrades. Told through the diary and papers of Williams and others, Jungle Journal includes many cartoons and poems produced by the prisoners, as well as extracts from the original Jungle Journal, a newspaper created by the men under the noses of their guards. Ronald Williams was the "editor" of this potentially fatal "publication." Jungle Journal describes the survival of hope even in desperate straits, and is a testament to those men whose courage and fortitude were tested to the limit under the tropical sun.
Author : Hamwic Publishers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780954722883
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Prisoners in Java written by Hamwic Publishers and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1584 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (645 download)
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