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Surviving the Sword

Author : Brian MacArthur
Publisher : Abacus Software
ISBN 13 : 9780349119373
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (193 download)

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Download or read book Surviving the Sword written by Brian MacArthur and published by Abacus Software. This book was released on 2006 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Surviving the Sword

Author : Brian MacArthur
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving the Sword written by Brian MacArthur and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 2005 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, there were few fates that could befall a soldier so hellish as internment in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. To this day, many survivors–most of whom are in their eighties–still cannot talk about their experiences without unearthing terrible memories. Surviving the Sword gives voice to these tens of thousands of Allied POWs and offers us a powerful reminder of the terror and depravations of war and the resilience of the human spirit. In this important book, Brian MacArthur draws on the diaries of American, British, Dutch, and Australian Fepows (Far Eastern prisoners of war), some of whose recollections are published here for the first time. These soldiers wrote and kept their diaries, in secret, because they were determined that to record for posterity how they were starved and beaten, marched almost to death, or transported on “hellships”; how their fellows were summarily executed by guards or felled by the thousands by tropical diseases; and how they were used as slave labor–most notoriously on the Burma-Thailand railway, as depicted in The Bridge on the River Kwai. The diaries excerpted in this book make plain why the Fepows believed that their brutal treatment by Japanese and Korean guards was, literally, incomprehensible to those who did not live it. The prisoners whose stories appear here risked torture and execution to keep diaries and make sketches and drawings that they hid from the guards wherever they could, sometimes burying them in the graves of lost comrades. The survivors’ narratives reveal not just a litany of horrors, but are a moving testament to the nobler instincts of humanity as well, detailing how the POWs prevailed over horrible conditions, even finding or creating a precious few creature comforts and sustaining the rudiments of culture, learning, and play. Forced into solidarity by inhuman conditions, the soldiers showed incredible compassion for one another, improvising ingenious ways to care for the sick, boost morale by subtly mocking their jailers’ authority, or even turn meager rations into the occasional feast. Countless thousands died in Japanese prison camps during World War II. Those fortunate enough to emerge from their ordeal were never the same again.Surviving the Swordat last fills a notable historical gap in our understanding, while also commemorating and memorializing the Fepows’ struggle and sacrifice.

Surviving the Sword

Author : Brian MacArthur
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 : 9780316861427
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (614 download)

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Download or read book Surviving the Sword written by Brian MacArthur and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 2005 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all too aware of the horror of the Holocaust. Fifty-five years on, the most controversial, unresolved issue of the Second World War is the savage treatment of their prisoners by the Japanese. For as many as 18 hours a day, they toiled in back-breaking conditions. Disease - malaria, dengue fever, beriberi and dysentery - was rife. They were treated worse than animals - starved of food, sleep and shelter while working in death camps. Their captors took their Red Cross parcels and laughed; the cruelty was abominable. Although some individual experiences have been given testimony on film (BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI) and in books (i.e. Eric Lomax's THE RAILWAY MAN), Brian MacArthur's BUSHIDO is the first comprehensive history of the FEPOWS (Far East Prisoners of War). Here is the full story of the FEPOWS' life on the edge of existence from 1941, when Hong Kong fell, and 1942, when Singapore surrendered, until 1945.

Living by the Sword

Author : Kristen Brooke Neuschel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501752138
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Living by the Sword written by Kristen Brooke Neuschel and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sharpen your knowledge of swords with Kristen B. Neuschel as she takes you through a captivating 1,000 years of French and English history. Living by the Sword reveals that warrior culture, with the sword as its ultimate symbol, was deeply rooted in ritual long before the introduction of gunpowder weapons transformed the battlefield. Neuschel argues that objects have agency and that decoding their meaning involves seeing them in motion: bought, sold, exchanged, refurbished, written about, displayed, and used in ceremony. Drawing on evidence about swords (from wills, inventories, records of armories, and treasuries) in the possession of nobles and royalty, she explores the meanings people attached to them from the contexts in which they appeared. These environments included other prestige goods such as tapestries, jewels, and tableware—all used to construct and display status. Living by the Sword draws on an exciting diversity of sources from archaeology, military and social history, literature, and material culture studies to inspire students and educated lay readers (including collectors and reenactors) to stretch the boundaries of what they know as the "war and culture" genre.

Memories of Ice

Author : Steven Erikson
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409083160
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Memories of Ice written by Steven Erikson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ravaged continent of Genabackis has given birth to a terrifying new empire: the Pannion Domin. Like a fanatical tide of corrupted blood, it seethes across the land, devouring all who fail to heed the Word of its elusive prophet, the Pannion Seer. In its path stands an uneasy alliance: Dujek Onearm's Host and the Bridgeburners - each now outlawed by the Empress - alongside some enemies of old that include the grim forces of Warlord Caladan Brood, Anomander Rake, Son of Darkness, and his Tiste Andii, and the Rhivi people of the Plains. But more ancient clans are also gathering. As if in answer to some primal summons, the massed ranks of the undead T'lan Imass have risen. It would seem that something altogether darker and more malign threatens the very substance of this world. The Warrens are poisoned, and rumours abound that the Crippled God is now unchained and intent on a terrible revenge . . . Marking the return of many favourite characters from Garden of the Moon and introducing a host of remarkable new players, Memories of Ice is the thrilling third chapter in Steven Erikson's magnificent, genre defining epic fantasy.

Inside the Bataan Death March

Author : Kevin C. Murphy
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786496819
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Inside the Bataan Death March written by Kevin C. Murphy and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two weeks during the spring of 1942, the Bataan Death March--one of the most widely condemned atrocities of World War II--unfolded. The prevailing interpretation of this event is simple: American prisoners of war suffered cruel treatment at the hands of their Japanese captors while Filipinos, sympathetic to the Americans, looked on. Most survivors of the march wrote about their experiences decades after the war and a number of factors distorted their accounts. The crucial aspect of memory is central to this study--how it is constructed, by whom and for what purpose. This book questions the prevailing interpretation, reconsiders the actions of all three groups in their cultural contexts and suggests a far greater complexity. Among the conclusions is that violence on the march was largely the result of a clash of cultures--undisciplined, individualistic Americans encountered Japanese who valued order and form, while Filipinos were active, even ambitious, participants in the drama.

The Book of the Sword

Author : Carrie Asai
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416503714
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Sword written by Carrie Asai and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I was six months old, I dropped from the sky -- the lone survivor of a deadly Japanese plane crash. The newspapers called me Heaven. I was adopted by a wealthy family in Tokyo, pampered, and protected. For nineteen years, I thought I was lucky. I'm learning how wrong I was. They say your life begins on your wedding day. Here's what happened on mine: I lost the person I love most. I learned that everything I knew about my family was a lie. Now I'm being hunted. I must fight back, or die. My life ended that day. The old Heaven is gone. I AM SAMURAI GIRL.

Swords and Swordsmen

Author : Mikes Loades
Publisher : Pen & Sword Books
ISBN 13 : 9781526706461
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book Swords and Swordsmen written by Mikes Loades and published by Pen & Sword Books. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent book tells the story of the evolution of swords, how they were made, how they were used, and the people that used them. It doesn't claim to give comprehensive coverage but instead takes certain surviving examples as landmarks on a fascinating journey through the history of swords. Each is selected because it can be linked to a specific individual, thus telling their story too and giving a human interest. So the journey starts with the sword of Tutankhamun and ends with the swords of J E B Stuart and George Custer. Along the way we take in Henry V, Cromwell and Uesugi Kenshin, and there is the most detailed discussion you'll find anywhere of all of George Washington's swords. The chapters on these specific swords and swordsmen are alternated with more general chapters on the changing technical developments and fashions in swords and their use. The reader's guide on this historical tour is Mike Loades. Mike has been handling swords most of his life, as a fight arranger, stuntman and historical weapons expert for TV and stage. He considers the sword as a functional weapon, work of art, fashion statement and cultural icon. As much as his profound knowledge of the subject, it is his lifelong passion for swords that comes through on every page. His fascinating text is supported by a lavish wealth of images, many previously unpublished and taken specifically for this book.

The Dragon in the Sword

Author : Michael Moorcock
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0575092688
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Dragon in the Sword written by Michael Moorcock and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third book of The Eternal Champion trilogy. John Daker is the Eternal Champion, trapped in a dimensionless plane outside of time, defender and destroyer of justice, a hero whose quest for justice leads only further into darkness. Haunted by the memories of too many battles waged during countless lifetimes, he searches for the beautiful Ermizhad - and for the key that will allow him to step off the wheel of infinite incarnations. His is a voyage on a dark ship piloted by a blind helmsman, through the slave stalls of the Cannibal Ghost Women and the tunnels of doom to a monstrous confrontation with the Evil that could plunge the world into the final night of oblivion.

The Soul Survivor

Author : Chris Bradford
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0241326753
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book The Soul Survivor written by Chris Bradford and published by Random House. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE THRILLING FINALE TO THE SOUL SERIES BY BESTSELLING AUTHOR CHRIS BRADFORD Tanas laughs, cruel and cold. 'Won't you Ascendants ever learn? My soul cannot be killed. Only I have the power to destroy souls.' Genna has lost everything. Her home, her parents, and now her only safe sanctuary. Forced to flee Haven, she faces a difficult decision: hide and survive, or stand and fight? Determined not to let Tanas win, Genna embarks on a desperate quest across continents to save the Light of Humanity. But can she and her friends complete their mission before Tanas and her Hunters catch up with them? Time is running out. And the clues to their quest are few and far between. Genna can only hope her soul will survive long enough to save the world . . .

The Sword of Red

Author : Jackie Marchant
Publisher : BLKDOG Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sword of Red written by Jackie Marchant and published by BLKDOG Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-23 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A land of plenty where everyone was happy? Pool couldn't think of anything worse. What this place needed was a famine. Or a war. For generations Rebels have been risking their lives over treacherous seas, razor sharp rocks and fierce currents to flee from the tyranny of Kamoria and seek refuge in the land they call Langrinia. For generations the descendants of the surviving rebels have done all they can for those who still struggle over. For generations they have lived in peace with the Forest and its elusive people. But now a survivor has washed up, battered and bleeding to death, insisting that he be tended by no one except the apprentice healer, Neekra. But when Neekra discovers that he is Pool, bastard son of the Supreme Lawmaker Daner of Kamoria, the most feared High Ruler of all, she needs more than her healer skills to help him lose his violent past and accept their peaceful ways. And why is he so interested in her? Now a war with Kamoria is brewing and Pool their only hope - but whose side is he really on? Teach him to love Neekra. Do not let him burn us.

The Spatha

Author : M.C. Bishop
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472832388
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book The Spatha written by M.C. Bishop and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adopted from the Celts in the 1st century BC, the spatha, a lethal and formidable chopping blade, became the primary sword of the Roman soldier in the Later Empire. Over the following centuries, the blade, its scabbard, and its system of carriage underwent a series of developments, until by the 3rd century AD it was the universal sidearm of both infantry and cavalry. Thanks to its long reach, the spatha was the ideal cavalry weapon, replacing the long gladius hispaniensis in the later Republican period. As the manner in which Roman infantrymen fought evolved, styles of hand-to-hand combat changed so much that the gladius was superseded by the longer spatha during the 2nd century AD. Like the gladius, the spatha was technologically advanced, with a carefully controlled use of steel. Easy maintenance was key to its success and the spatha was designed to be easily repaired in the field where access to a forge may have been limited. It remained the main Roman sword into the Late Roman period and its influence survived into the Dark Ages with Byzantine, Carolingian and Viking blades. Drawing together historical accounts, excavated artefacts and the results of the latest scientific analyses of the blades, renowned authority M.C. Bishop reveals the full history of the development, technology, training and use of the spatha: the sword that defended an empire.

The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England

Author : Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851157160
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England written by Hilda Roderick Ellis Davidson and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1998 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study concerns the importance of the sword in Anglo-Saxon and Viking society, with reference to surviving swords and literary sources, especially Beowulf.

I Shall Survive Using Potions! Volume 3

Author : FUNA
Publisher : J-Novel Club
ISBN 13 : 1718335040
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book I Shall Survive Using Potions! Volume 3 written by FUNA and published by J-Novel Club. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kaoru has been reincarnated in another world and receives a cheat ability that allows her to create potions as an apology for her death. After creating a commotion wherever she goes with her powers and calling upon the Goddess Celes to create miracles, her travels have led her to the Kingdom of Jusral. She opens up a medicine shop there and finally strives to live a quiet life selling her medicinal potions...but her medicine is so effective that even the army and nobles come rushing in! The third volume of the super popular series arrives! What sort of miracles will Kaoru the "friend of the Goddess" cause this time?

Beyond Survival and Philanthropy

Author : Allon Gal
Publisher : Hebrew Union College Press
ISBN 13 : 0878204733
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (782 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Survival and Philanthropy written by Allon Gal and published by Hebrew Union College Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will hold American Jewry and Israel together as the traditional "crisis glue" melts down and the familiar and practiced Israeli call for aid retreats to the remote background of each community's existence? This is the question addressed by participants in a 1996 conference sponsored by the Center for North American Jewry of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion. Beyond Survival and Philanthropy is a collection of answers to this complex question offered by thirty-one leading Israeli and American scholars, educators, journalists, and communal leaders. They consider the cultural currents that have shifted American Jewish attitudes toward Israel from a mobilization model to a search-for-personal-meaning model and trace the historical roots of present tensions between religious and secular Jews in Israel. The views of Yehezkel Kaufmann, Ahad Ha-Am, and David Ben-Gurion are used to help differentiate between the state of exile, the sense of exile, and the recognition of exile. The place of Israel in American Jewish education and the treatment of American Jewry in Israeli schools is considered, and the backstory of recent efforts to streamline the institutional complex that raises funds for Israel and local needs in American Jewish communities is explored. Speaker of the Knesset Avraham Berg presents his view of how the changing natures of both Zionism and Judaism will affect all Jews in the twenty-first century. Sometimes agreeing, sometimes disagreeing, but always expanding upon these presentations, authors of the response essays in the volume reflect and underscore the values that precipitated this discussion: recognition of the unity of the Jewish people and of the continuing to share diverse views and opinions in order to formulate and address the crucial and sometimes radical choices that confront American Jewry and Israel.

St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Fourteenth Century

Author : Nigel Saul
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831174
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book St George's Chapel, Windsor, in the Fourteenth Century written by Nigel Saul and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive look at the early history of St George's Chapel, one of the most important medieval buildings in England. Developed and improved by Edward III, the Chapel became the spiritual home of his newly-instigated Order of theGarter and, in the process, a new Camelot for the English monarchy. St George's Chapel, Windsor, is one of the most famous ecclesiastical foundations in Britain. Established in 1348, its origins are closely bound up with those of the Order of the Garter, which was founded by Edward III at the sametime. The collection of essays in this volume sets Windsor in its context, at the forefront of the political and cultural developments of mid-fourteenth-century England. They examine the early history of the Chapel, its tieswith Edward III's chivalric ambitions, the community of canons who served it, and its place in the institutional development of the English Church. Major themes are the role of the Chapel in the early history of the Order and itsinfluence on other collegiate foundations of the late middle ages; and much attention is devoted to the mighty building campaign at the Castle started by Edward III which made Windsor the grandest royal residence of its day.

Roswell He Survived

Author : Domingos Francisco Martins Araújo
Publisher : Clube de Autores
ISBN 13 : 8592031311
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Roswell He Survived written by Domingos Francisco Martins Araújo and published by Clube de Autores. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most informed people in Ufology know that part of the current technology lies without their inventors. No one has filed patents and many relate this to a spacecraft fall in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. This book is presenting the truth behind the transistor, optical fiber, laser, and so many other elements that are now part of our daily activities, besides giving us the real information of where we came from and who is really protecting us in and out of Earth. Learn what the pyramids or the Nazca lines were for, or even how they were built, and by whom. Get to know about the Klemers (Grays) and the Humanity of the Galaxy. You will also have many other answers that the scholars couldn´t give us by now.