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Download or read book Wen Bon written by Byron R. Winborn and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Second World War Byron Winborn was part of a covert military operation in an area of southeastern China overrun and nominally controlled by Japanese forces. As a Naval lieutenant attached to the Fourteenth Army Air Force, he and his colleagues in a Technical Air Intelligence unit scavenged behind the lines for wreckage from downed enemy aircraft, seeking valuable technical information which they reported back to their superiors in Washington. Winborn's memoir of these experiences is rendered in an informal and understated conversational style including near encounters with Japanese troops, confrontations with Chinese bandits and semi-comic negotiations with the local populace, along with thoughtful observations about the contrasting attitudes and life styles between the culture in which he found himself and that from which he had come. At the end of hostilities, "Wen Bon" as his Chinese associates addressed him, was ordered to Shanghai, where he and other veterans of southeastern China contributed their unconventional "can-do" talents to expediting traffic in a Naval Air Priorities Office, for a hectic finale to his singular tour of exotic duty.
Book Synopsis The GI War Against Japan by : Peter Schrijvers
Download or read book The GI War Against Japan written by Peter Schrijvers and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title Even in the midst of World War II, Americans could not help thinking of the lands across the Pacific as a continuation of the American Western frontier. But this perception only heightened American soldiers' frustration as the hostile region ferociously resisted their attempts at control. The GI War Against Japan recounts the harrowing experiences of American soldiers in Asia and the Pacific. Based on countless diaries and letters, it sweeps across the battlefields, from the early desperate stand at Guadalcanal to the tragic sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at war's very end. From the daunting spaces of the China-India theater to the fortress islands of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, Schrijvers brings to life the GIs’ struggle with suffocating wilderness, devastating diseases, and Japanese soldiers who preferred death over life. Amidst the frustration and despair of this war, American soldiers abandoned themselves to an escalating rage that presaged Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The GI’s story is, first and foremost, the story of America's resounding victory over Japan. At the same time, however, the reader will recognize in the extraordinarily high price paid for this victory chilling forebodings of the West’s ultimate defeat in Asia’and America’s in Vietnam.
Book Synopsis When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global by : Mara Lisa Arizaga
Download or read book When Tibetan Meditation Goes Global written by Mara Lisa Arizaga and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-08-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an in-depth examination of the Yungdrung Bon religion in light of globalization. In its global dimension, Bon has been attracting a growing number of Westerners, particularly to its Dzogchen teachings and meditation practices. In this expansion, Bon operates in a dynamic context where forces that create changes in the tradition coexist, sometimes in tension and sometimes in tandem, with other forces that aim to preserve it. In tracing the process through which Bon has become a global religion, this monograph narrates the story of the principal figures who initially facilitated this transmission, following their journey from Tibet to India and Nepal. The narrative then moves to explore the dynamics taking place in the transmission and reception of Yungdrung Bon in Western countries, opening up a new viewpoint on the expansion of Tibetan religious traditions into the West and painting a comprehensive picture of the modern history of the Yungdrung Bon religion as narrated by its participants. In so doing, it makes an invaluable contribution to the study of Tibetan traditions in the West as well as to the wider history of religions, social anthropology, psychology, and conversion studies.
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Book Synopsis World War II in Literature for Youth by : Patricia Hachten Wee
Download or read book World War II in Literature for Youth written by Patricia Hachten Wee and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive volume provides a wealth of information with annotated listings of more than 3,500 titles--a broad sampling of books on the war years 1939-1945. Includes both fiction and nonfiction works about all aspects of the war. Professional resources for educators aligned to the educational standards for social studies; technical references; periodicals and electronic resources; a directory of WWII museums, memorials, and other institutions; and topics for exploration complement this excellent library and classroom resource.
Download or read book The Northwestern Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 1250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book New York State Journal of Medicine written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis When Heaven and Earth Changed Places by : Le Ly Hayslip
Download or read book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places written by Le Ly Hayslip and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the most important books of Vietnamese American and Vietnam War literature...Moving, powerful.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer In these pages, Le Ly Hayslip—just twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her tiny village of Ky La—shows us the Vietnam War as she lived it. Initially pressed into service by the Vietcong, Le Ly was captured and imprisoned by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American contractor and ultimately fled to the United States. Almost twenty years after her escape, Le Ly found herself inexorably drawn back to the devastated country and loved ones she’d left behind, and returned to Vietnam in 1986. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, creating an extraordinary portrait of the nation, then and now—and of one courageous woman who held fast to her faith in humanity. First published in 1989, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places was hailed as an instant classic. Now, some two decades later, this indispensable memoir continues to be one of our most important accounts of a conflict we must never forget.
Download or read book Medical Pickwick written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Medical Pickwick written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of John Ruskin: Lectures on art and Aratra Pentelici, with lectures and notes on Greek art and mythology, 1870 by : John Ruskin
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin: Lectures on art and Aratra Pentelici, with lectures and notes on Greek art and mythology, 1870 written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Works of John Ruskin by : John Ruskin
Download or read book The Works of John Ruskin written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol. 2) written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-10-10 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last here is the long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide focusing exclusively on Chinese literature from ca. 700 B.C.E. to the early seventh century C.E. Alphabetically organized, it contains no less than 1095 entries on major and minor writers, literary forms and "schools," and important Chinese literary terms. In addition to providing authoritative information about each subject, the compilers have taken meticulous care to include detailed, up-to-date bibliographies and source information. The reader will find it a treasure-trove of historical accounts, especially when browsing through the biographies of authors. Indispensable for scholars and students of pre-modern Chinese literature, history, and thought. Part Two contains S to Xi.
Download or read book Bon’S Echo written by Patricia T Runyon and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-06-14 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two runaway teens struggle to make it together on the streets, facing obstacles and adventures. They go from city to city with the constant fear of being brought in by the police. Feeling frustrated and alone, Christy, a restless young teen, strikes out on her own. Fleeing a town and family she cant seem to fit into. Christy hitch-hikes to Denver to hide out at her uncles house. A short lived freedom when in the middle of the night her parents arrive to drag her back home. Despite their efforts, she barely escapes by hopping a train in the dark. Fate lands Christy in the arms of a boy named Bon, another runaway. She introduces herself to him as Echo, and soon a romance buds between them. Determined not to return to their previous lives, they head for the coast, getting by however they can. Pan handling, hitching on the open highways and enduring every conflict and adventure together. After years the two runaways realize that sometimes life is about making hard choices. Bon and Echo vow that they will find each other again one daybut only time will tell what fate has in store for them.
Book Synopsis Emmett Bonlore by : Opie Percival Read
Download or read book Emmett Bonlore written by Opie Percival Read and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynasty written by Jeff Benedict and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The definitive inside story of the New England Patriots dynasty"--
Book Synopsis Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe by : Dawn B. Sova
Download or read book Critical Companion to Edgar Allan Poe written by Dawn B. Sova and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and career of Edgar Allan Poe including synopses of many of his works, biographies of family and friends, a discussion of Poe's influence on other writers, and places that influenced his writing.
