Download or read book Alex General Yamashita s Hidden Maps written by Einar Meling and published by Ittipat Meling. This book was released on 2023-02-18 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-buried fortunes, a dangerous treasure hunt, and one WWII pilot determined to uncover the truth. In the thick of WWII, the Japanese Imperial Army buried vast plundered treasures in the Philippines and on off-shore islands. RAF pilot and former POW Alex Radcliff is one of the few men who know the truth. He swore an oath to only reveal the existence of the war loot after the death of members of Japan’s Imperial Family – and half a century later, a string of events launches him into action. Teaming up with his grandson Michael and the boy’s cousin Julia, the trio embarks on a dangerous quest to unravel the long-forgotten mystery and uncover the secret coded maps that lead to the buried fortunes. From the fiercely disputed islands of the South China Sea to infamous Thai prisons, the Vatican City, and drug lords in Hawaii, Alex’s quest will pit him against deadly enemies and even deadlier allies – all the while battling against the greed that has plagued humanity for millennia. But Alex isn’t the only one who wants to find the coded maps – and if he isn’t careful, somebody else could get there first... Dive into a thrilling historical fiction novel that takes readers on a wild journey into an untold part of WWII. Artfully combining high-octane action and riveting suspense with real historical details and larger-than-life characters, Alex & General Yamashita’s Hidden Maps is a must-read for fans of historical fiction and action & adventure! Scroll up and grab your copy today!
Download or read book Year of the Tiger written by David Miller and published by Monsoon Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army under General Tomoyuki Yamashita looted untold amounts of gold and other valuables from across its occupied colonies in Southeast Asia to fi nance the empire’s ongoing military expansion. But when the tide of war turned against Japan in 1943, much of this treasure had to be buried in secret. Over the decades, the search for the legendary Yamashita’s Gold had been in vain, until now ... A group of foreign workers digging a tunnel under the Padang in present-day Singapore stumbles across a treasure vault and inadvertently triggers a biological booby trap. An unknown strain of anthrax is released, threatening a global holocaust. It is up to Assistant Superintendent Gerald Loh of the Singapore Police Force to decipher a cryptic clue left behind with the loot to halt this deadly plague. Year of the Tiger takes readers on a roller-coaster journey of political wrangling, murky history and secret organisations to discover the elusive cure for a seemingly unstoppable pandemic.
Download or read book The Fall of the Philippines written by Louis Morton and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rampage MacArthur Yamashita and the Battle of Manila written by James M. Scott and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 631 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Illuminating.… An eloquent testament to a doomed city and its people.” —The Wall Street Journal In early 1945, General Douglas MacArthur prepared to reclaim Manila, America’s Pearl of the Orient, which had been seized by the Japanese in 1942. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city, he planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard—but the enemy had other plans. The Japanese were determined to fight to the death. The battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population, resulting in a massacre as horrific as the Rape of Nanking. Drawing from war-crimes testimony, after-action reports, and survivor interviews, Rampage recounts one of the most heartbreaking chapters of Pacific War history.
Download or read book Vanished written by Wil S. Hylton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-11-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a mesmerizing storyteller, the gripping search for a missing World War II crew, their bomber plane, and their legacy. In the fall of 1944, a massive American bomber carrying eleven men vanished over the Pacific islands of Palau, leaving a trail of mysteries. According to mission reports from the Army Air Forces, the plane crashed in shallow water—but when investigators went to find it, the wreckage wasn’t there. Witnesses saw the crew parachute to safety, yet the airmen were never seen again. Some of their relatives whispered that they had returned to the United States in secret and lived in hiding. But they never explained why. For sixty years, the U.S. government, the children of the missing airmen, and a maverick team of scientists and scuba divers searched the islands for clues. With every clue they found, the mystery only deepened. Now, in a spellbinding narrative, Wil S. Hylton weaves together the true story of the missing men, their final mission, the families they left behind, and the real reason their disappearance remained shrouded in secrecy for so long. This is a story of love, loss, sacrifice, and faith—of the undying hope among the families of the missing, and the relentless determination of scientists, explorers, archaeologists, and deep-sea divers to solve one of the enduring mysteries of World War II.
Download or read book General Yamashita s Dream Book written by Aquila Chrysaetos and published by New Generation Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author uses his inquisitive mind to set out and prove the existence of Yamashita's infamous untouched treasure deposits buried all around the Philippine Islands. Working alongside Filipino treasure hunters the author has visited untouched treasure sites in Luzon, Cebu, Davao, General Santos and Glan in Mindanao. It has taken Aquila Chrysaestos over six years to successfully document many original Japanese treasure code books, and treasure maps, for you the reader. Aquila has answered many of the questions that he had while puzzling out the precise way in which the Japanese Imperial family members went about burying the wealth of fourteen South East Asian countries, on land and at sea throughout the islands during 1942 to 1945 when the Japanese Imperial Army occupied the Philippine islands. Using his practical skills and a logical approach to solving many of his unanswered questions, the author has compiled a very comprehensive step by step "how to" book that will aid you the treasure hunter wanting answers to your own Philippine treasure quest. This book is packed with: 19 sections including the quick reference guide A to Z of treasure signs and symbols 100 colour drawings, by the author himself many drawn from unknown treasure sites 150 colour photographs of carved treasure symbols, maps and recovered gold 30 black and white WWII photographs 40 black and white diagrams This brilliant gem of a book takes you through every process of planning our own treasure hunt. The equipment you will need, the treasure permits, where to look and how to recover your own piece of war treasure safely, and so much more! Buy this book now and go and live your dream of becoming a successful treasure hunter today! Absolutely fantastic! A real mine of information for the seeker of Japanese war gold buried in the Philippines. In over 400 fact-filled pages, Aquila has cracked the Japanese treasure code and, with up to the minute locating and recovery techniques, paved the way for bringing this vast wealth to the surface. An incredible story and a great read for the armchair treasure hunter too! David Villanueva, treasure hunter and author, Whitstable, UK
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Enemy Combatants Terrorism and Armed Conflict Law written by David K. Linnan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-01-30 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a renewed emphasis on national and homeland security, the United States is once again seeking to balance the needs of the state with both the rights of its citizens as well as those of other nations. This book represents an interdisciplinary approach to the legal dilemmas borne out by the war on terror-against the specific background of Afghanistan, Iraq, and this new kind of conflict. It is a strong contribution to a broader debate visible since 9/11, which will remain in the public eye for the foreseeable future. It addresses the overlap between religion, ethics, armed conflict, and law, within the context of the current conflict. While many issues in areas such as intelligence, reconciliation of civil liberties, dealing with terrorist threats, and the permissible bounds of interrogation, treatment of prisoners and laws governing armed conflict have long standing precedents under domestic and international law, this war has challenged even long standing legal interpretations. The contributors to this volume explore those precedents and contemporary challenges to them. Now that traditional wars between nation states are no longer the rule, the terrorist threat has gained credence (popularly, terrorism and its claimed breeding ground in failed states), linked in practice to issues of intervention on the territory of states harboring such groups. In military circles the idea of armed struggle between modern military forces and what were formerly called guerillas has now largely been replaced by asymmetric warfare and the concept of intelligence and preventive action interchangeably within U.S. borders and overseas. Opposing views contemplate that different-and presumably lower-legal standards may apply in internal armed conflicts. Such legal issues are visible under current circumstances of asymmetric warfare in conjunction with questions about prisoner status and detentions, including the permissible bounds of interrogation versus torture following the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq but also the treatment at the Guantanamo Bay facility of alleged Al Q'aeda captives from Afghanistan. All of the contributors in this book explore the changing circumstances against which these contentious new legal issues now unfold. The experts strike no consensus. Indeed, one of the work's many strengths can be attributed to the fact that the many facets of the ongoing debate are represented herein.
Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Letters to Memory written by Karen Tei Yamashita and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dive into the Yamashita family archive and Japanese internment runs a documentary impulse through filters that shimmer with imagination.
Download or read book Far Eastern Economic Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Christian Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of World Events Being a Chronological Record of the Second World War Photographically Reproduced from the American and Foreign Newspapers Despatches as Reported Day by Day Including Maps Pictures Cartoons Anecdotes Official Messages Reports and Declarations and Congressional Acts written by John Appleton Haven Hopkins and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Block by Block written by William Glenn Robertson and published by www.Militarybookshop.CompanyUK. This book was released on 2003 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by the Combat Studies Institute Press. The resulting anthology begins with a general overview of urban operations from ancient times to the midpoint of the twentieth century. It then details ten specific case studies of U.S., German, and Japanese operations in cities during World War II and ends with more recent Russian attempts to subdue Chechen fighters in Grozny and the Serbian siege of Sarajevo. Operations range across the spectrum from combat to humanitarian and disaster relief. Each chapter contains a narrative account of a designated operation, identifying and analyzing the lessons that remain relevant today.
Download or read book The Fingerprint written by U. S. Department Justice and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of The Fingerprint Sourcebook originated during a meeting in April 2002. Individuals representing the fingerprint, academic, and scientific communities met in Chicago, Illinois, for a day and a half to discuss the state of fingerprint identification with a view toward the challenges raised by Daubert issues. The meeting was a joint project between the International Association for Identification (IAI) and West Virginia University (WVU). One recommendation that came out of that meeting was a suggestion to create a sourcebook for friction ridge examiners, that is, a single source of researched information regarding the subject. This sourcebook would provide educational, training, and research information for the international scientific community.
Download or read book Bending Adversity written by David Pilling and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A]n excellent book...” —The Economist Financial Times Asia editor David Pilling presents a fresh vision of Japan, drawing on his own deep experience, as well as observations from a cross section of Japanese citizenry, including novelist Haruki Murakami, former prime minister Junichiro Koizumi, industrialists and bankers, activists and artists, teenagers and octogenarians. Through their voices, Pilling's Bending Adversity captures the dynamism and diversity of contemporary Japan. Pilling’s exploration begins with the 2011 triple disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown. His deep reporting reveals both Japan’s vulnerabilities and its resilience and pushes him to understand the country’s past through cycles of crisis and reconstruction. Japan’s survivalist mentality has carried it through tremendous hardship, but is also the source of great destruction: It was the nineteenth-century struggle to ward off colonial intent that resulted in Japan’s own imperial endeavor, culminating in the devastation of World War II. Even the postwar economic miracle—the manufacturing and commerce explosion that brought unprecedented economic growth and earned Japan international clout might have been a less pure victory than it seemed. In Bending Adversity Pilling questions what was lost in the country’s blind, aborted climb to #1. With the same rigor, he revisits 1990—the year the economic bubble burst, and the beginning of Japan’s “lost decades”—to ask if the turning point might be viewed differently. While financial struggle and national debt are a reality, post-growth Japan has also successfully maintained a stable standard of living and social cohesion. And while life has become less certain, opportunities—in particular for the young and for women—have diversified. Still, Japan is in many ways a country in recovery, working to find a way forward after the events of 2011 and decades of slow growth. Bending Adversity closes with a reflection on what the 2012 reelection of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and his radical antideflation policy, might mean for Japan and its future. Informed throughout by the insights shared by Pilling’s many interview subjects, Bending Adversity rigorously engages with the social, spiritual, financial, and political life of Japan to create a more nuanced representation of the oft-misunderstood island nation and its people. The Financial Times “David Pilling quotes a visiting MP from northern England, dazzled by Tokyo’s lights and awed by its bustling prosperity: ‘If this is a recession, I want one.’ Not the least of the merits of Pilling’s hugely enjoyable and perceptive book on Japan is that he places the denunciations of two allegedly “lost decades” in the context of what the country is really like and its actual achievements.” The Telegraph (UK) “Pilling, the Asia editor of the Financial Times, is perfectly placed to be our guide, and his insights are a real rarity when very few Western journalists communicate the essence of the world’s third-largest economy in anything but the most superficial ways. Here, there is a terrific selection of interview subjects mixed with great reportage and fact selection... he does get people to say wonderful things. The novelist Haruki Murakami tells him: “When we were rich, I hated this country”... well-written... valuable.” Publishers Weekly (starred): "A probing and insightful portrait of contemporary Japan."
