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Book The Bamboo Cage

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nigel Cawthorne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2016-08-24
  • ISBN : 9781537130187
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book The Bamboo Cage written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-24 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first published investigation into whether US prisoners of war were left behind in Southeast Asia after the Vietnam war.

Book The Bamboo Cage

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  • Author : Nigel Cawthorne
  • Publisher : Garrett County Press
  • Release : 2013-01-31
  • ISBN : 193943002X
  • Pages : 304 pages

Download or read book The Bamboo Cage written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Vietnam War ground to a bloody halt, long after the boys were officially sent home, evidence remained that over 2,000 American soldiers were still missing in Southeast Asia. In this shocking expose, journalist Nigel Cawthorne examines the evidence -- from CIA documents and Pentagon files to the streets of Hanoi.

Book The Bamboo Cage

Download or read book The Bamboo Cage written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bamboo Cage

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  • Author : Nigel Cawthorne
  • Publisher : SP Books
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9781561712410
  • Pages : 362 pages

Download or read book The Bamboo Cage written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by SP Books. This book was released on 1994 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cawthorne has cracked open the biggest cover-up since the Watergate scandal. The freelance journalist uses CIA documents and Pentagon files to reveal that the U.S. government deliberately withheld crucial information about American soldiers still missing in Vietnam. Photos.

Book The Bamboo Cage

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  • Author : John Slater
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book The Bamboo Cage written by John Slater and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bird in the Bamboo Cage

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  • Author : Hazel Gaynor
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2021-08-04
  • ISBN : 9780008393670
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Bird in the Bamboo Cage written by Hazel Gaynor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-08-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction Book of the Year USA Today bestseller Inspired by true events 'Moving and authentic' Dinah Jefferies 'Vivid, heart-rending and so, so beautiful ' Jenny Ashcroft

Book Bamboo Cage   the P O W  Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse  1942 1943

Download or read book Bamboo Cage the P O W Diary of Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse 1942 1943 written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1942, RAF flight controller Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the island of Java in Indonesia. Starved, sick, beaten, and worked to near-death, he wasted away until he weighed only seventy pounds, his life hanging in tenuous balance. There were strict orders against POWs keeping diaries, but Wyse penned his observations on the scarce bits of paper he could find, struggling to describe the brutalities he witnessed. After cleverly hiding his notes in a piece of bamboo next to his bed, in December of 1943, he carefully hid his notes inside a bottle beneath his prison hut. After the war, he wrote to the Dutch authorities, asking them to dig up his diary and return it to him. In this detailed and frank portrayal of life under Japanese occupation, Wyse reveals the both the best and the worst of human nature. He criticized his fellow soldiers for botching the defence of Java and Sumatra and admonished his captors for their brutality. Yet, Wyse also describes the selfless efforts of the Dutch civilians who helped the prisoners by doing whatever they could as well as his first-hand observations of acts of self-sacrifice among the prisoners themselves.

Book Bamboo Cage

Download or read book Bamboo Cage written by Robert Wyse and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1942, RAF Flight Lieutenant Robert Wyse became a Japanese prisoner of war on the Indonesian island of Java. In this no-holds-barred account, Wyse describes the harsh conditions he and his fellow prisoners suffered. Subjected to beatings, starvation, debilitating illness, and unbelievably harsh work, Wyse struggled to describe the brutalities he witnessed." "Although the punishment for keeping a diary would have been severe, Wyse persevered, scrounging for bits of paper and slivers of pencil and hiding his writing wherever he could until it became too dangerous to continue. Then, in December 1943, he buried his notes in a piece of bamboo under his prison hut." "Robert Wyse's diary was retrieved by a Dutch friend after the war. An historical goldmine of information on life as a prisoner of war, the diary reveals both the worst and the best of human nature." --Book Jacket.

Book The Bamboo Gulag

Download or read book The Bamboo Gulag written by Nghia M. Vo and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive review of the gulag system instituted in communist Vietnam explores the three-pronged approach that was used to convert the rebellious South into a full-fledged communist country after 1975. This book attempts to retrace the path of these imprisoned people from the last months of the war to their escape from Vietnam and explores the emotions that gripped them throughout their stay in the camps. Individual reactions to the camps varied depending on philosophical, emotional and moral beliefs. This reconstruction of those years serves as a memoir for all who were incarcerated in the bamboo gulags.

Book The Bamboo Bends

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  • Author : A. Cavanaugh-johnson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2014-06-02
  • ISBN : 9781500192662
  • Pages : 350 pages

Download or read book The Bamboo Bends written by A. Cavanaugh-johnson and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-02 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two men lie motionless in a swamp breathing shallowly through hollow reeds. An enemy patrol is searching the area for them probing the dense vegetation near the bank with bayonets but not venturing into the dank leech infested water. Nearby are six American prisoners in a bamboo cage. Jake Mathews attempted to rescue them before being discovered.For the Americans the war was over, but not for these men.

Book Baoan martial arts novels Love Hero

Download or read book Baoan martial arts novels Love Hero written by Baoan Liu and published by Baoan Liu. This book was released on with total page 1847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cage Aquaculture

Download or read book Cage Aquaculture written by Malcolm C. M. Beveridge and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the first edition of this book, 17 years ago, aquaculture hasconsolidated its position as an important means of producing foodand as a contributor to global food security. Cage aquaculture toohas continued to expand apace. The third edition of this important,useful and well-received book maintains the original aim ofproviding a thorough synthesis of information on cages and cageaquaculture practices with data and examples encompassing all majorworld regions. Fully updated, the book’s comprehensive contents includedetails of the origin and principles of cage aquaculture and anoverview of its current position. Contents of the chaptersfollowing include key information on cage design and construction,site selection, environmental impacts and environmental capacity,management, and potential problems in cage aquaculture systems. Acomprehensive reference list and index are included to helpreaders. The volume is essential reading for all personnel involved infish and shellfish farms that use cages, and for all thoseembarking on a career in aquaculture. Cage manufacturers and otherssupplying the aquaculture trade will find much of commercial usewithin the book. All those involved in aquaculture research andequipment design should have a copy of this most useful book. Alllibraries in universities and research establishments whereaquaculture, environmental science, aquatic science, fish biologyand fisheries are studied and taught should have several copies ontheir shelves.

Book Research is a Passion with Me

Download or read book Research is a Passion with Me written by Margaret Morse Nice and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1979-06-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A veteran traveller with an aptitude for languages, Margaret Nice, researcher-scientist-author, amassed considerable knowledge of many of the birds of the world. Significantly, her most important paper was published in Germany, far from her birthplace of Amherst, Massachusetts. The paper dealing with the Song Sparrow appeared in two parts in the Journal fur Ornithologie. Through the years, Dr. Nice, a Past President of the Wilson Ornithological Society, and a Life Fellow of the American Ornithologist's Union, was elected to Honorary Memberships in the ornithological societies of most of the countries she visited. These included Britain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy and the Netherlands. She was a much-admired corresponding member of the Hungarian Institute of Ornithology. In Toronto, Canada, The Margaret Nice Ornithological Club was formed in her honor. Though widely known as "The Song Sparrow Lady," she was more than the ultimate authority on the Song Sparrow and probably the most famous woman ornithologist in the world. A trained zoologist, active environmentalist and prodigious letter writer, she was also a loving wife and mother.

Book Animal Novels  The Way of Big Fish

Download or read book Animal Novels The Way of Big Fish written by ouping guo and published by ouping guo. This book was released on with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Science of Song  Liao  Jin and Xixia of Dynasty

Download or read book The History of Science of Song Liao Jin and Xixia of Dynasty written by Li Shi and published by DeepLogic. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is the volume of “The History of Science of Song, Liao, Jin and Xixia of Dynasty ” among a series of books of “Deep into China Histories”. The earliest known written records of the history of China date from as early as 1250 BC, from the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) and the Bamboo Annals (296 BC) describe a Xia dynasty (c. 2070–1600 BC) before the Shang, but no writing is known from the period The Shang ruled in the Yellow River valley, which is commonly held to be the cradle of Chinese civilization. However, Neolithic civilizations originated at various cultural centers along both the Yellow River and Yangtze River. These Yellow River and Yangtze civilizations arose millennia before the Shang. With thousands of years of continuous history, China is one of the world's oldest civilizations, and is regarded as one of the cradles of civilization.The Zhou dynasty (1046–256 BC) supplanted the Shang and introduced the concept of the Mandate of Heaven to justify their rule. The central Zhou government began to weaken due to external and internal pressures in the 8th century BC, and the country eventually splintered into smaller states during the Spring and Autumn period. These states became independent and warred with one another in the following Warring States period. Much of traditional Chinese culture, literature and philosophy first developed during those troubled times.In 221 BC Qin Shi Huang conquered the various warring states and created for himself the title of Huangdi or "emperor" of the Qin, marking the beginning of imperial China. However, the oppressive government fell soon after his death, and was supplanted by the longer-lived Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Successive dynasties developed bureaucratic systems that enabled the emperor to control vast territories directly. In the 21 centuries from 206 BC until AD 1912, routine administrative tasks were handled by a special elite of scholar-officials. Young men, well-versed in calligraphy, history, literature, and philosophy, were carefully selected through difficult government examinations. China's last dynasty was the Qing (1644–1912), which was replaced by the Republic of China in 1912, and in the mainland by the People's Republic of China in 1949.Chinese history has alternated between periods of political unity and peace, and periods of war and failed statehood – the most recent being the Chinese Civil War (1927–1949). China was occasionally dominated by steppe peoples, most of whom were eventually assimilated into the Han Chinese culture and population. Between eras of multiple kingdoms and warlordism, Chinese dynasties have ruled parts or all of China; in some eras control stretched as far as Xinjiang and Tibet, as at present. Traditional culture, and influences from other parts of Asia and the Western world (carried by waves of immigration, cultural assimilation, expansion, and foreign contact), form the basis of the modern culture of China.

Book Inside Hanoi s Secret Archives

Download or read book Inside Hanoi s Secret Archives written by Malcolm McConnell and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2024-04-29 with total page 511 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing definitive answers to the POW/MIA mystery, an authoritative investigation into an enduring controversy reveals shocking information from secret Vietnamese archives about MIA and POW cases, including photographs and material obtained from Operation Swamp Ranger. “Enthralling and fast-paced, yet encyclopedic in scope,” says Major General John K. Singlaub, U.S. Army.

Book The Ghost

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Gess
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2018-05-01
  • ISBN : 1984518232
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book The Ghost written by John Gess and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ghost is the next chapter in the story of Jacob Cahill, the boy prodigy who miraculously escaped Communist Chinese agents when he was only fifteen years old. He has now chosen to fight the Communists in Vietnam rather than continue his education at a prestigious university in America, which he is more than well suited to do. His family and friends are aghast at his decision, many thinking he will be no more than cannon fodder in a useless and unwinnable war. Although revenge is a factor in his decision since the Communists in China killed his parents, he also believes it is his duty to fight for his country in a time of war. He enlists, is sent to boot camp and then to Vietnam where his prodigious physical and intellectual skills are tested in horrific combat, which not only confront him with what he has become but result in significant wounds from which he may never recover. In the end, as the enemy converges on him, he wonders if the endgame is some shallow grave in the jungles of Laos from which he will never be found.