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Book Synopsis The Sumatra Railroad by : H. Hovinga
Download or read book The Sumatra Railroad written by H. Hovinga and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the gripping historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran jungle during World War II. The railway was commissioned by Japan and built with the blood and tears of Allied prisoners of war and press-ganged Javanese romushas. Henk Hovinga interviewed nearly one hundred former railroad workers and did painstaking archival research. The result is a moving book, richly illustrated with numerous authentic drawings of life in the internment camps, charts and photographs. The original Dutch version of The Sumatra Railroad has become the standard work on the crime of the Japanese railroad construction in Indonesia. Unfortunately this indescribable human catastrophe has always been overshadowed by the drama of the notorious Birma Railroad. This work is first and foremost a posthumous tribute to the thousands of slave workers who lost their lives for the Pakan Baroe Railroad. At the same time, it is a homage to the survivors, for whom the war traumas would never end.
Book Synopsis Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway by : Lizzie Oliver
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 193 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 This book brings to light previously unpublished materials, including: · Exceptionally rare and detailed diaries, notebooks and letters from the railway · Memoirs from Sumatra, including detailed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.
Book Synopsis The Sumatra Railroad by : Henk Hovinga
Download or read book The Sumatra Railroad written by Henk Hovinga and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis POW on the Sumatra Railway by : Christine Bridges
Download or read book POW on the Sumatra Railway written by Christine Bridges and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Geoffrey Lee (always known as Geoff) joined the RAF on his 20th birthday in June 1941. He left Liverpool on a troop ship in December 1941, with no idea where he was going. He eventually arrived in Java, where he was captured by the Japanese, along with many others. During his time in captivity, he survived several camps in Java, Ambon and Singapore and three hell ship journeys. After being washed ashore in Sumatra, (as a ferry he was being transported on blew up), he was then recaptured and suffered sheer hell as a slave on the Sumatra Railway. Enduring bouts of malaria, beri beri, tropical ulcers and a starvation diet was bad enough, but this was exacerbated by the searing heat and extreme cruelty meted out to the prisoners by the Japanese and Korean guards. Geoff miraculously survived, weighing just 6 stone when he arrived back in Liverpool in December 1945. After his release he found he had difficulty in convincing people where he had been as no one had heard of the “Sumatra Railway”, only the other one, thousands of miles away in Burma. Letters to newspapers were returned as ‘Just another Burma Railway story’. The Ministry of Defence, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and The Imperial War Museum had no records of POW’s building a railway in Sumatra. So began Geoff’s journey, his aim... to prove to the establishment what he already knew to be true. This is Geoff's story of his captivity, release, and subsequent efforts in achieving his aim.
Author :United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :136 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Programs of Japan in Sumatra, with Biographies by : United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch
Download or read book Programs of Japan in Sumatra, with Biographies written by United States. Office of Strategic Services. Research and Analysis Branch and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traces of War written by Jan Banning and published by Trolley Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dutch photographer Jan Banning has interviewed and photographed 24 of the survivors of the Burma and Sumatra railways. The haunting images in this book show them as they worked, naked from the waist up. The words elicit, with a matter-of-fact disinterest, the misery of their constant understanding of death.
Book Synopsis Prisoners of the Sumatra Railway by : Lizzie Oliver
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 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the prisoner of war experience on the Sumatra railway, and its legacy, through the life-writing of those who survived"--
Book Synopsis Report on the Use of Metal Railroad Ties and on Preservative Processes and Metal Tie-plates for Wooden Ties by : Edward Ernest Russell Tratman
Download or read book Report on the Use of Metal Railroad Ties and on Preservative Processes and Metal Tie-plates for Wooden Ties written by Edward Ernest Russell Tratman and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Railroad and Engineering Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bulletin - American Railway Engineering Association by : American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association
Download or read book Bulletin - American Railway Engineering Association written by American Railway Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 19 - include the directory issue of the American Railway Engineering Association.
Book Synopsis Marketing in Indonesia by : M. Virginia Webbert
Download or read book Marketing in Indonesia written by M. Virginia Webbert and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Narrow Gauge in the Tropics by : Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr.
Download or read book Narrow Gauge in the Tropics written by Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. and published by Railroads Past and Present. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrow Gauge in the Tropics is the first comprehensive history of railways and tramways in the Dutch East Indies (modern Indonesia) from breaking ground in 1864 to the invasion of the Japanese during World War II. During the mid-19th century under colonial rule, the Dutch East Indies experienced enormous increases in production of sugar, coffee, and other commodities, resulting in a great dilemma: How were these goods to be moved to port when wagons hauled by animals was the only available form of transportation? The solution was to build a railway network through some of the most challenging terrain on the planet. Lavishly illustrated, Narrow Gauge in the Tropics explores technical aspects of the construction of the railways over difficult terrain, the origin of the technicians who made the seemingly impossible happen, and the social impact of the railways on the indigenous population.
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Book Synopsis The Report: Indonesia 2014 by : Oxford Business Group
Download or read book The Report: Indonesia 2014 written by Oxford Business Group and published by Oxford Business Group. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the cusp of 2014 national elections and the 2015 integration of the ASEAN Economic Community, Indonesia is poised to continue its rapid economic expansion. While the country’s natural resources are still plentiful, by channelling foreign direct investment into the right areas, the government is ensuring that true potential, in terms of value and manufacturing, is achieved. By inviting targeted investment and adapting existing regulatory frameworks, the government has taken significant steps to facilitate foreign investment and the development of value-added industries. Indonesia is a country renowned for its abundance of natural resources, which include oil, gas, coal, nickel, tin, copper, gold and silver. While slightly down on the previous year, the country’s total oil production for 2012 stood at 861,000 barrels per day, accounting for approximately 1.2% of the world’s oil production. Indonesia remains the world’s largest exporter of thermal coal, exporting a total of 304m tonnes in 2012 to countries such as Japan, South Korea, China and India. The country continues to be the dominant nation in South-east Asia politically and economically, and its participation within ASEAN in particular will likely determine the shape of regional integration, with the introduction of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015 looming as the bloc’s next major milestone.
Book Synopsis B-24 Bridge Busters by : Colin Pateman
Download or read book B-24 Bridge Busters written by Colin Pateman and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: B-24 Bridge Busters: RAF Liberators over Burma and Thailand provides a gripping and detailed account of RAF Liberator missions against the Japanese in Asia. British and Commonwealth aircrews displayed great gallantry in many instances on low-level precise bombing sorties destroying specific targets, including a great number of bridges constructed by the Japanese in their conquest to reach India. A number of detailed accounts are based upon personal flying logbooks and other unique material originating from the pilots and aircrews. 159 Squadron was the first four engined heavy bomber squadron which flew from India and operated over Burma. They instigated greater accuracy in destroying a multitude of vital targets. The legendary film The Bridge over the River Kwai (1957) evokes images that are historically set in celluloid; however, that blockbusting film had separated fact from fiction and this book examines the true events that took place through Bridge Busting , including techniques developed and deployed by the RAF against the Japanese.
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