Download or read book Before The Show written by F Gillard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ray Cooper was just one of the many thousands of men involved in the Burma campaigns during World War Two in 1942 - 1945. Like many others he rarely spoke of his experiences in the Army. However he kept a diary during 1943 while in India as a member of a Light Artillery regiment, and in early 1944 as a Chindit fighting in Mike Calvert's 77th Brigade with the Lancashire Fusiliers. Although the diary does not cover the period after the end of March 1944, it was possible to document what happened to him and his unit until the end of 1944 and his subsequent role in psychological operations under the Special Operations Executive in 1945. Ray's diary gives an extraordinary account of life as a junior officer in a non fighting regiment and at the beginning of a costly campaign behind enemy lines.
Download or read book written by and published by Arihant Publications India limited. This book was released on with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Making of Western Indology written by Rosane Rocher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on new sources, this book evaluates the importance of Henry Thomas Colebrooke, an East India Company civil servant who became the father of modern Indology. Written by renowned academics in the field of Indology, and drawing on new sources, this book shows how he embodies the significant passage from eighteenth century colonial expansion, to the professional, transnational ethos of nineteenth century intellectual life and scholarly enquiry.
Download or read book Conquerors written by Roger Crowley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conquerors, New York Times bestselling author Roger Crowley gives us the epic story of the emergence of Portugal, a small, poor nation that enjoyed a century of maritime supremacy thanks to the daring and navigational skill of its explorers—a tactical advantage no other country could match. Portugal’s discovery of a sea route to India, campaign of imperial conquest over Muslim rulers, and domination of the spice trade would forever disrupt the Mediterranean and build the first global economy. Crowley relies on letters and eyewitness testimony to tell the story of tiny Portugal’s rapid and breathtaking rise to power. Conquerors reveals the Império Português in all of its splendor and ferocity, bringing to life the personalities of the enterprising and fanatical house of Aviz. Figures such as King Manuel “the Fortunate,” João II “the Perfect Prince,” marauding governor Afonso de Albuquerque, and explorer Vasco da Gama juggled their private ambitions and the public aims of the empire, often suffering astonishing losses in pursuit of a global fortune. Also central to the story of Portugal’s ascent was its drive to eradicate Islamic culture and establish a Christian empire in the Indian Ocean. Portuguese explorers pushed deep into the African continent in search of the mythical Christian king Prester John, and they ruthlessly besieged Indian port cities in their attempts to monopolize trade. The discovery of a route to India around the horn of Africa was not only a brilliant breakthrough in navigation but heralded a complete upset of the world order. For the next century, no European empire was more ambitious, no rulers more rapacious than the kings of Portugal. In the process they created the first long-range maritime empire and set in motion the forces of globalization that now shape our world. At Crowley’s hand, the complete story of the Portuguese empire and the human cost of its ambition can finally be told. Praise for Conquerors “Excellent . . . Crowley’s interpretations are nuanced and fair.”—The Christian Science Monitor “In a riveting narrative, Crowley chronicles Portugal's horrifically violent trajectory from ‘impoverished, marginal’ nation to European power, vying with Spain and Venice to dominate the spice trade.”—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Brings to life the Portuguese explorers . . . perfect for anyone who likes a high seas tale.”—Publishers Weekly “Readers of Crowley’s previous books will not be disappointed by this exciting tale of sea battles, land campaigns and shipwrecks. . . . Crowley makes a good case for reclaiming Portugal’s significance as forger of the first global empire.”—The Daily Telegraph “Crowley has shown a rare gift for combining compelling narrative with lightly worn academic thoroughness as well as for balancing the human with the geopolitical—qualities on display here. The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.”—Michael Prodger, Financial Times “A fast-moving and highly readable narrative . . . [Crowley’s] detailed reconstruction of events is based on a close reading of the works of the chroniclers, notably Barros and Correa, whose accounts were written in the tradition of the chronicles of chivalry.”—History Today
Download or read book Building for Victory written by William C. King and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this theater of linited resources, great distances, challenging terrian, and Byzantine poltics, American military commanders thus intended to commit few if any conventional forces, yet needed to secure northern Burma to ensure the flow of supplies to the embattled Nationalists.
Download or read book Journey from Banna written by Gordon Young and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-25 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey from Banna is the incredible true narrative of Gordon Youngs three life journeys: his journey through the world, from China to many parts of Asia, and to the United States, where he lives today in California; his journey through time, from childhood near the Golden Triangle to his teen years in India during World War II, and from a young man during the Korean War to a married family man during the Vietnam years, and finally to grandfather status; and lastly, his journey toward enlightenment, from rugged individualist to dedicated conservator of wildlife and humanity.
Download or read book Prelude to the Monsoon written by Gideon Francois Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire by Order written by Ted Maslen-Jones and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps the most surprising thing about this book is the fact that it has waited fifty years to appear for, as Sir Martin Farndale points out in his foreword, the debt owed by 14th Army to 656 Air OP Squadron in the reconquest of Burma was immeasurable. From 1943 until the end of the war, these three flights of five tiny Auster aircraft provided air observation for the whole of the Army fighting the Japanese in the jungle below. A likely explanation, if Ted Maslen- Jones is typical of his colleagues, is that they were essentially modest men who, in their own eyes, were only doing their job and were in fact rather privileged to be sailing above the canopy while the ground troops were slogging it out somewhere below them. Several times the author refers to the sheer exhilaration of flying over that beautiful but still unhappy country. Now, at last, thanks to the recollections, as well as the diligent research of Ted Maslen-Jones, the true contribution of these 'daring men in their flying machines' can be properly appreciated. As one of the pilots, his own memories are naturally of his flying time, but he never loses sight of the fact that it was the efforts of the fitters, signallers and drivers who kept these flimsy aircraft in the air and rightly points out that the record of serviceability of 656 Squadron was truly remarkable.
Download or read book A Quiet Violence written by Betsy Hartmann and published by Food First Books. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field study of living conditions in a village of Bangladesh - describes historical background to poverty, the agrarian structure and agricultural production; mentions landowner attitudes, rural youth, rural women and children; examines the role of Islamic religion, marriage, the rural area social classes (particularly peasant farmers and landless agricultural workers); covers land and production relations, agricultural marketing, violence, corruption, development aid, etc. Photographs and references.
Download or read book Thirteen Years Among the Wild Beasts of India written by George P. Sanderson and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Practical Sailing Directions and Coasting Guide written by N. Heckford and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-12-27 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Download or read book Practical Sailing Directions and Coasting Guide from the Sand Heads to Rangoon Maulmain Akyab and Vice Versa written by N. Heckford and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chutzpah written by Ou Ning and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To Westerners China has often seemed a monolith, speaking with one voice—whether that of an ancient dynasty, a socialist state, or an economic powerhouse. Chutzpah! New Voices from China shatters this illusion, giving Western readers a rare chance to listen to the brilliant polyphony of Chinese fiction today. Here, in the realms of realism and fantasy, and portraying worlds lyrical, gritty, or wildly avant-garde, sixteen selections—three of which are nonfiction—by up-and-coming Chinese writers take readers from the suburbs of Nanjing to the mountains of Xinjiang Province, from London’s Chinatown to a universe seemingly sprung from a video game. In these stories one may encounter a sweet, lonely fabric store owner or a lesbian housecleaner, a posse of shit-talking vo-tech students or a human hive-mind. A jeep-driving swordsman girds himself for battle by reading Borges and Nabokov. A Beijing-raised Kazakh boy hunts for his lost heritage. A teenager plots revenge on the bureaucrat responsible for demolishing his home. A starving child falls in love with a water spirit. These stories, collected by Ou Ning and Austin Woerner, and offered in English by leading translators of Chinese, travel the breadth and depth of China’s remarkable literary landscape. Drawn from the pages of Chutzpah!, one of China’s most innovative literary magazines, this anthology bids farewell to the tired tropes of moonlight and peach blossoms, goodbye to the constraints of socialist realism. In their place it introduces us to the imaginative power, boundless creativity, and kaleidoscopic diversity of a new generation of Chinese fiction.
Download or read book Awesome Arizona written by Roger Naylor and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which state has the most national monuments? Where in America can you find one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World? Where is the largest contiguous forest of ponderosa pine? In Awesome Arizona, Roger Naylor, “the Dean of Arizona Travel Writers,” has amassed 200 amazing facts and fascinating commentary about his beloved state. This is the fast-paced, funny encyclopedia that lovers of Arizona have been craving. Awesome Arizona captures the essence of the sixth-largest state, from its rowdy past to its epic landscape bulging with mountains, slashed by canyons, and blown apart by volcanoes. Learn about trees that once shaded dinosaurs, the West’s most legendary gunfight, the world’s largest antique, the best-preserved meteor crater on earth, where the post office still delivers mail by mule, the longest poker game in history, how Arizona saved the unicorn, and so much more.
Download or read book Census of India 1891 written by V. N. Narasimmiyengar and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Venomous Reptiles of the United States Canada and Northern Mexico written by Carl H. Ernst and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first volume contains species accounts of the venomous lizards and elapid and viperid snakes found north of Mexico's twenty-fifth parallel. Volume two covers the twenty-one species of rattlesnakes found in the United States, Canada, and northern Mexico.
Download or read book Rhythms of Rain Verses of Love Loss and Liberation written by William Gomes and published by William Gomes. This book was released on 2024-03-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the heart of human emotion with Rhythms of Rain: Verses of Love, Loss, and Liberation. This compelling anthology invites readers on an enriching journey through the intricate labyrinth of love, longing, and the eternal pursuit of spiritual freedom. Crafted by poets who have savored life's sweetest joys and endured its bitterest sorrows, this collection resonates with the universal experiences that bind us all. Discover Reflections of Your Own Soul Within these pages lies a profound exploration of the human condition, as each poem serves as a mirror reflecting the myriad hues of the heart. From the tender whispers of love to the impassioned flames of desire, the verses within capture the essence of what it means to feel deeply. Embark on a Journey Through the Human Experience Guided by evocative imagery and insightful musings, readers will traverse the vast landscapes of existence—from the rejuvenating caress of the monsoon rains to the solemn beauty of the desert's embrace. Each poem is a window into the soul's longing for connection, understanding, and a place within the cosmos. Find Solace and Inspiration Rhythms of Rain is more than a poetry collection; it is an invitation to explore the depths of our shared humanity and the perennial quest for love, meaning, and liberation. Through the artistry of language and the emotive power of verse, this anthology offers solace, inspiration, and a deeper appreciation of the world and our place within it. A Timeless Journey Awaits Whether you're a lover of poetry or a seeker of spiritual insight, Rhythms of Rain will touch your heart and stir your soul. Join us on this journey of discovery, as we navigate the tumultuous yet beautiful waters of the human experience. Embrace the rhythm of life's rain; let it wash over you, refresh you, and lead you to the liberation you seek. Your journey through love, loss, and liberation begins here.
