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Book Sisters in Captivity

    Book Details:
  • Author : Colin Burgess
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2023-07-05
  • ISBN : 176110909X
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Sisters in Captivity written by Colin Burgess and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-07-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions, Sister Jeffrey kept a secret diary of day-to-day events which, after the war, was turned into a hugely successful book and radio serial: White Coolies. She would often write of the powerful sisterhood that evolved as the prisoners of war took strength from each other, even forming a vocal orchestra. White Coolies was a major inspiration for the 1997 film Paradise Road. Sisters in Captivity builds on those diaries to not only re-live the years the nurses spent as POWs but also recounts the early life and influences that encouraged Betty Jeffrey into the field of nursing as a lifelong endeavour. A tireless advocate for returned nurses, she co-founded the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre with sole survivor of the Banka Island Massacre, fellow POW, and her longtime friend Vivian Bullwinkel. Featuring 32 pages of photos including personal mementos of Betty Jeffrey, courtesy of her family, and her drawings from the prison camps, this is a powerful account of women’s resilience amidst the devastating brutality of war.

Book Captivity

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  • Author : Margaret Pargeter
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN : 9780263103373
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Captivity written by Margaret Pargeter and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sisters in Captivity

Download or read book Sisters in Captivity written by Colin Burgess and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The incredible account of Sister Betty Jeffrey OAM and the Australian war nurses who survived the bombing of evacuation ship SS Vyner Brooke in February 1942, and subsequently spent three years in Japanese prison camps in Sumatra. During those perilous years surviving in squalid conditions, Sister Jeffrey kept a secret diary of day-to-day events which, after the war, was turned into a hugely successful book and radio serial: White Coolies. She would often write of the powerful sisterhood that evolved as the prisoners of war took strength from each other, even forming a vocal orchestra. White Coolies was a major inspiration for the 1997 film Paradise Road. Sisters in Captivity builds on those diaries to not only re-live the years the nurses spent as POWs but also recounts the early life and influences that encouraged Betty Jeffrey into the field of nursing as a lifelong endeavour. A tireless advocate for returned nurses, she co-founded the Australian Nurses Memorial Centre with sole survivor of the Banka Island Massacre, fellow POW, and her longtime friend Vivian Bullwinkel. Featuring 32 pages of photos including personal mementos of Betty Jeffrey, courtesy of her family, and her drawings from the prison camps, this is a powerful account of women's resilience amidst the devastating brutality of war."--Back cover.

Book Somewhere Inside

Download or read book Somewhere Inside written by Laura Ling and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 17, 2009, while filming a documentary on the Chinese–North Korean border, Laura Ling and her colleague Euna Lee were violently apprehended by North Korean soldiers, charged with trespassing and "hostile acts," and imprisoned by Kim Jong Il's notoriously secretive Communist state. Kept totally apart, they endured months of interrogations and a trial before North Korea's highest court that led to a sentence of twelve years of hard labor in a North Korean prison camp. When news of the arrest reached Laura's sister, journalist Lisa Ling, she immediately began a campaign to get Laura released. Her efforts led her from the State Department to the higher echelons of the media world and eventually to the White House. Lisa takes us deep into the drama between people in the highest levels of government, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, and eventually former President Bill Clinton, who arrived in North Korea in mid-August for a suspenseful rescue. Somewhere Inside is a timely, inspiring, and page-turning tale of survival set against the canvas of international politics. Writing with their strong, poignant voices, both sisters go beyond the headlines to reveal the unique bond that has sustained them throughout the most horrifying ordeal of their lives.

Book Captivity of the Oatman Girls

Download or read book Captivity of the Oatman Girls written by Royal Byron Stratton and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Scales of Captivity

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  • Author : Mary Pat Brady
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2021-12-13
  • ISBN : 1478022558
  • Pages : 175 pages

Download or read book Scales of Captivity written by Mary Pat Brady and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Scales of Captivity, Mary Pat Brady traces the figure of the captive or cast-off child in Latinx and Chicanx literature and art between chattel slavery’s final years and the mass deportations of the twenty-first century. She shows how Latinx expressive practices expose how every rescaling of economic and military power requires new modalities of capture, new ways to bracket and hedge life. Through readings of novels by Helena María Viramontes, Oscar Casares, Lorraine López, Maceo Montoya, Reyna Grande, Daniel Peña, and others, Brady illustrates how submerged captivities reveal the way mechanisms of constraint such as deportability ground institutional forms of carceral modernity and how such practices scale relations by naturalizing the logic of scalar hierarchies underpinning racial capitalism. By showing how representations of the captive child critique the entrenched logic undergirding colonial power, Brady challenges racialized modes of citizenship while offering visions for living beyond borders.

Book Captivity Captive

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  • Author : Rodney Hall
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Release : 1988-02-01
  • ISBN : 9780374118891
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Captivity Captive written by Rodney Hall and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book White Captives

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  • Author : Evelyn Sibley Lampman
  • Publisher : Encore Editions
  • Release : 1975-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780689500237
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book White Captives written by Evelyn Sibley Lampman and published by Encore Editions. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fictionalized account of the experiences of two sisters who spent five years as Indian captives in the mid-nineteenth century.

Book Captivity

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  • Author : Deborah Noyes
  • Publisher : Unbridled Books
  • Release : 2011-06-08
  • ISBN : 1609530454
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book Captivity written by Deborah Noyes and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2011-06-08 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two stories in one novel. The first is the strange, true tale of the Fox Sisters, the enigmatic family of young women who, in upstate New York in 1848, proclaimed that they could converse with the dead. Doing so, they unwittingly gave birth to a religious movement that touched two continents: the American Spiritualists. The second story is about loss and grief, a tale of the bright promise that the Fox Sisters offer up to the skeptical Clara Gill, a reclusive woman of a certain age who long ago isolated herself with her paintings, following the scandalous loss of her beautiful young lover in London.

Book Sisters in Faith Holy Bible  KJV

Download or read book Sisters in Faith Holy Bible KJV written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2012-12-31 with total page 1633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sisters in Faith Holy Bible is a sister-to-sister guide through the Word of God. It demonstrates how His Word is active and will impact every interaction of life in a practical way for the African-American woman. Where can a woman go to find help with life's struggles? Executive editors Michele Clark Jenkins and Stephanie Perry Moore believe the answers to lifeÆs problems can be found in the Bible. The Sisters in Faith Holy Bible seeks to highlight where the Bible speaks to the five major areas of life: God, Family, Others, Self, and Career. Additional contributors include recording artist Joann Rosario Condrey, novelists Kim Cash Tate, Vanessa Davis Griggs, and other scholars and artists committed to encouraging and empowering African-American women with GodÆs truth. Features include: Ariseùdevotionals that teach how to apply the Bible Quest and Discoveryùnotes that use scripture to answer common questions about life and faith She Speaksùcreative articles written from the perspective of women in the Bible Authorized King James Version text Center-column References Concordance Part of the Signature Series line of Thomas Nelson Bibles The King James VersionùThe most successful Bible translation in history with billions of copies published

Book Ezekiel and Daniel

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  • Author : Camden McCormack Cobern
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book Ezekiel and Daniel written by Camden McCormack Cobern and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentary on the Old Testament

Download or read book Commentary on the Old Testament written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel

Download or read book The Book of the Prophet Ezekiel written by Andrew Bruce Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

Download or read book The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commentary on the Old Testament

Download or read book Commentary on the Old Testament written by Daniel Denison Whedon and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Parallel Bible

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1370 pages

Download or read book The Parallel Bible written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 1370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Holy Bible illustrated by Gustave Dor

Download or read book Holy Bible illustrated by Gustave Dor written by The World English Bible and published by Edimedia. This book was released on 2015-02-22 with total page 1637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition is embellished with 225 splendid plates by Doré (that can all be enlarged with a double tap!) The Old and New Testament in an updated translation, with a complete set of indexes for very efficient consultation.