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Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309516
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: Voluntary accounts written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 : 9780415309523
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946 written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309561
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: Documents, post-war accounts, maps, and photographs written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309547
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: Asian labour written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul H. Kratoska
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415309554
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (95 download)
Download or read book The Thailand-Burma Railway, 1942-1946: War crimes written by Paul H. Kratoska and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie G. Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780864177865
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (778 download)
Download or read book The Blue Haze written by Leslie G. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of POW's on the Burma Railway as told by one of the survivors.
Author : David Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108577512
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal written by David Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its Nuremberg counterpart, the Tokyo Trial was foundational in the field of international law. However, until now, the persistent notion of 'victor's justice' in the existing historical literature has made it difficult to treat it as such. David Cohen and Yuma Totani seek to redress this by cutting through persistent orthodoxies and ideologies that have plagued the trial. Instead they present it simply as a judicial process, and in so doing reveal its enduring importance for international jurisprudence. A wide range of primary sources are considered, including court transcripts, court exhibits, the majority judgment, and five separate concurring and dissenting opinions. The authors also provide comparative analysis of the Allied trials at Nuremberg, resulting in a comprehensive and empirically grounded study of the trial. The Tokyo Tribunal was a watershed moment in the history of the Asia-Pacific region. This groundbreaking study reveals it is of continuing relevance today.
Author : Alfred Knights
Publisher : Arena books
ISBN 13 : 190942112X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Singapore and the Thailand-Burma Railway written by Alfred Knights and published by Arena books. This book was released on 2013-01-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents one of the most vivid descriptions of day-to-day life in a Japanese POW labour camp to have appeared so far. The story follows the experiences of the Norfolk Territorial Regiment from 1942 to 1945, under the command of Lt. Col. Knights, during and after the fall of Singapore. Many will recollect having seen the film, The Bridge on The River Kwai. It tended to fictionalise certain matters of fact. This book, drawn directly from a memoir only recently uncovered, reveals that the Japanese designed railway was successfully completed with the forced labour of Allied troops in conjunction with Chinese and Malay captives. The Royal Norfolks were allocated a section of the line which required excavating deep cuttings in the rock hills parallel with the river. They had their 'own' camp with a Japanese officer in charge. He constantly pressed for quicker progress, and for work to be done by all the prisoners, including those in the camp hospital and their officers, contrary to international law.The Regiment's experiences are reported by Lt. Col. Knights in his book. He gives details of his own and others' sufferings, both those inflicted by their captors and those occurring from tropical diseases and insects, all being worsened by a lack of medicines and food. Some of the local Thais, at great risk to themselves, provided a little of both of those commodities. After the railway was completed, the survivors were marched back into Thailand. There they were required to dig a deep ditch round their camp. It was suspected that this would be their grave when they were shot, if the Japanese decided that they had lost the war. Fortunately the two atomic bombs resulted in the Japanese Emperor himself announcing their surrender, forestalling that action. The final chapters of the book are filled with excitement and tension in the efforts of the British officers to hoodwink their captors.
Author : Richard Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780642399502
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (995 download)
Download or read book The Burma-Thailand Railway 1942-1943 written by Richard Reid and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yuma Totani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316300064
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Justice in Asia and the Pacific Region, 1945–1952 written by Yuma Totani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores a cross-section of war crimes trials that the Allied powers held against the Japanese in the aftermath of World War II. More than 2,240 trials against some 5,700 suspected war criminals were carried out at 51 separate locations across the Asia Pacific region. This book analyzes fourteen high-profile American, Australian, British, and Philippine trials, including the two subsequent proceedings at Tokyo and the Yamashita trial. By delving into a large body of hitherto underutilized oral and documentary history of the war as contained in the trial records, Yuma Totani illuminates diverse firsthand accounts of the war that were offered by former Japanese and Allied combatants, prisoners of war, and the civilian population. Furthermore, the author makes a systematic inquiry into select trials to shed light on a highly complex - and at times contradictory - legal and jurisprudential legacy of Allied war crimes prosecutions.
Author : Clifford Kinvig
Publisher : Potomac Books
ISBN 13 : 9781857532050
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book River Kwai Railway written by Clifford Kinvig and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As rivers go there is nothing particular about the River Kwai. It is known less for its physical characteristics than for its association with the monumental struggle that took place along its eastern bank in 1942 and 1943 as a third of a million men strove to build a railway linking Thailand to Burma. What gave this railroad its gruesome notoriety was not its uniqueness as an engineering achievement, remarkable feat though it was, but the ruthless determination of its architects to have it completed on time, however daunting the task in the inhospitable climate and topography of the region, and regardless of the cost in human life. The conditions have been well-documented in POW accounts. However, when it was first published 10 years ago, Clifford Kinvig's book was the first to present a fully comprehensive evaluation of the railway episode in its strategic, logistic and manpower contexts. Now re-released as a B-format paperback, Kinvig's commendable examination of the River Kwai Railway uses Japanese records, together with prisoners' accounts, to explain the progress of this formidable enterprise. He examines it not only from the viewpoint of the Japanese soldiers and POWs, but also from the perspective of the huge number of laborers recruited in Burma and Malaya, a mainly illiterate force who were unable to produce any coherent record of their experiences, and whose plight has been largely overlooked.
Author : Gavan McCormack
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863734233
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (342 download)
Download or read book The Burma-Thailand Railway written by Gavan McCormack and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between November 1942 and October 1943 a force of about 60,000 prisoners of the Imperial Japanese Army, together with an even greater number of locally conscripted labourers, was mobilized to construct a railway from Kanchanaburi in Thailand to Thanbuyzayat in Burma. Many died in the construction process, including 12,000 POWs (2,800 of them Australian). They died from overwork, beatings, exhaustion and disease - the result of their taskmasters' cruelty. Survivors have carried the physical and psychological scars ever since. The crimes committed in order to build the railway need to be understood. In this book some of the Australian survivors, and distinguished Japanese and Australian historians, attempt to come to a real understanding of what happened on the railway and why. Contributors include Tom Uren, Hugh V. Clarke and Sir Edward (Weary) Dunlop.
Author : 二松慶彦
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781898823070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Across the Three Pagodas Pass written by 二松慶彦 and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the railway, by a Japanese engineer involved in the construction.
Author : Nick Van Der Bijl
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848844131
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Sharing the Secret written by Nick Van Der Bijl and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While written under the auspices of the Trustees of the Military Intelligence Museum, Sharing the Secret is not an academic regimental history. Rather it gives a privileged glimpse into a necessarily publicity-shy organization that has been deeply involved in military intelligence operations since its inception in 1940 through to 2010. Understandably, little has been written about the Corps' work for Official Secret reasons.??The development of Field Security and Protective Security and measures taken to protect the Army for espionage, sabotage, subversion and terrorism in peace and war are examined. These tasks were particularly important during the de-Nazification of Germany during the aftermath of the Second World War. Field Security led to the successful arrest of leading Nazis, including Himmler and Doenitz.??The author, who served in the Corps for over 20 years and saw active service in Northern Ireland and the Falklands, gives fascinating examples of differing Intelligence techniques in action. These include the exploitation of Imagery Interpretation, Human Intelligence, including the interrogation of prisoners of war, the examination of enemy documents and the deployment of Signals Intelligence so that commanders have enough information to fight the battles. The support the Intelligence Corps gave to the Special Operations Executive during the Second World War is well covered, as are examples of Special Duties since 1945.??The reader will appreciate that, as with any work relating to national intelligence and security, Sharing the Secret has been written under the restrictions of the era. That said, it provides a long-overdue insight into the contribution of members of the Intelligence Corps over seventy years of war and peace.??As featured in Burnham & Highbridge News
Author : Mark Harrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199268592
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Medicine and Victory written by Mark Harrison and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This represents the first major history of British medicine during the Second World War. It shows how medicine gave the British a crucial edge in several theatres, by preventing losses from disease and returning the sick and wounded to active service. Drawing on a wide range of official and non-official sources, the book examines medical work in all the main theatres of the war, from the front line to the base hospital.
Author : Edward Jarvis
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303111597X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Anglican Church in Malaysia written by Edward Jarvis and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Anglican Church in Malaysia from multiple angles, unpacking its history from British colonialism to today’s Muslim-majority Asian nation. Analyzing tense Christian-Muslim dialogue and volatile intercommunity relations, themes of ethnicity, identity, gender, and multiculturalism intersect in contexts of war, insurgency, and national independence. The Church’s two centuries of history unfold chronologically, but this study goes far beyond mere description of events; it is a critical, multidisciplinary, multilayered discussion that integrates contemporary, archival, and scholarly perspectives. It focuses on high-pressure interfaces between colonialists, clergy, sultans, indigenous, and immigrant groups. The roles of education and healthcare—as evangelism, or perhaps incentivization—are investigated, within evolving models of mission, conversion, and the broader context of Anglicanism in crisis. These diverse threads intertwine to produce a concise but comprehensive three-dimensional portrait of the Anglican Church in Malaysia.
Author : Henry Robert Addison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3420 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Who's who written by Henry Robert Addison and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 3420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annual biographical dictionary, with which is incorporated "Men and women of the time."
