Download or read book The Anguish of Surrender written by Ulrich A. Straus and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On December 6, 1941, Ensign Kazuo Sakamaki was one of a handful of men selected to skipper midget subs on a suicide mission to breach Pearl Harbor’s defenses. When his equipment malfunctioned, he couldn’t find the entrance to the harbor. He hit several reefs, eventually splitting the sub, and swam to shore some miles from Pearl Harbor. In the early dawn of December 8, he was picked up on the beach by two Japanese American MPs on patrol. Sakamaki became Prisoner No. 1 of the Pacific War. Japan’s no-surrender policy did not permit becoming a POW. Sakamaki and his fellow soldiers and sailors had been indoctrinated to choose between victory and a heroic death. While his comrades had perished, he had survived. By becoming a prisoner of war, Sakamaki believed he had brought shame and dishonor on himself, his family, his community, and his nation, in effect relinquishing his citizenship. Sakamaki fell into despair and, like so many Japanese POWs, begged his captors to kill him. Based on the author’s interviews with dozens of former Japanese POWs along with memoirs only recently coming to light, The Anguish of Surrender tells one of the great unknown stories of World War II. Beginning with an examination of Japan’s prewar ultranationalist climate and the harsh code that precluded the possibility of capture, the author investigates the circumstances of surrender and capture of men like Sakamaki and their experiences in POW camps. Many POWs, ill and starving after days wandering in the jungles or hiding out in caves, were astonished at the superior quality of food and medical treatment they received. Contrary to expectations, most Japanese POWs, psychologically unprepared to deal with interrogations, provided information to their captors. Trained Allied linguists, especially Japanese Americans, learned how to extract intelligence by treating the POWs humanely. Allied intelligence personnel took advantage of lax Japanese security precautions to gain extensive information from captured documents. A few POWs, recognizing Japan’s certain defeat, even assisted the Allied war effort to shorten the war. Far larger numbers staged uprisings in an effort to commit suicide. Most sought to survive, suffered mental anguish, and feared what awaited them in their homeland. These deeply human stories follow Japanese prisoners through their camp experiences to their return to their welcoming families and reintegration into postwar society. These stories are told here for the first time in English.
Download or read book The Years of Anguish written by Emily G. Ramey and published by . This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This commemorative tribute has sought to bring to the printed page the presence and living breath of those who lived day by day with the experiences of privation and sorrow. First published in 1965, this gathering of poignant memoirs includes: No Escape f
Download or read book Beethoven written by Jan Swafford and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2014 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives.
Download or read book Silent Anguish written by Vicky Reicks and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicky Reicks' son, Adam Samec, committed suicide in 2001 when he was 20 years old. After his death, she discovered, through his many writings and art pieces, that he'd taken his life because of the years of abuse he suffered silently through. Although Adam never clearly named his abuser, Vicky feels certain the local parish priest was the one who violated her son. Silent Anguish: The Adam Samec Story is a tribute to Adam and all that he suffered. It is the hope that his writings and art work will foster understanding for families who have been victims of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse and bring awareness to this horrific crime. This book shows all photos and artwork as black and white images.
Download or read book Crowning Anguish written by Tāj al-Salṭanah and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of Taj al-Saltana, daughter of the ruler of Iran, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, epitomized the predicaments of her changing era. Overcoming her limited edu-cation within the harem walls, Taj chronicled a thirty-year span in the life of a generation that witnessed a shift from traditional order to revolutionary flux. It is as though she had chosen this moment to recall her personal history--a tale filled with "wonder and anguish"--in order to record a cultural and political leap, symbolic of her time, from the indulgent, sheltered, and often petty world of her father's harem to the puzzling and exposed, yet emotionally and intellectually challenging world of a new Iran.Now almost one hundred years later Taj's memoirs are relevant and qualify her not only as a feminist by her society's standards but also in comparison with feminists of her generation in Europe and America. Beyond her fascination for the material glamors of the West at the turn of the twentieth century--fashion, architecture, furniture, the motorcar--she was also influenced by Western cul-ture's painting, music, history, literature and language. And yet throughout this time she kept her bond with her own literary and cultural heritage and what she calls her "Persianness."
Download or read book A Father s Anguish written by R. W. Doyen and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Springdale Detective Jim Eaton really wants to catch the serial rapist who's on the loose in this small town. The perpetrator has already brutalized and raped three women from the local college, and the crimes are escalating. The crimes become personal when John Stratton's twenty-year-old daughter, Laura, comes home her face bruised and swollen after having been raped. The rapist knocks her unconscious and takes her to his home where he repeatedly assaults her. While she is still only semiconscious, he drives her back to where he had grabbed her and dumps her on the ground. He simply drives away. Though she is two hours away, Laura manages to get her car and heads home. The beating and rape devastate her father. The police are never notified. After months of physical and psychiatric therapy, Laura recovers but John does not. He is haunted by his anguish. Sleepless nights and tortured days nearly make him insane. Laura remembers something about the exterior of the rapist's house, so for weeks John crosses and re-crosses the residential neighborhoods of this small city until he finds the house.
Download or read book Lucy written by Sarah W. Holloway and published by Sarah Holloway. This book was released on 2008-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The severely and persistently mentally ill (SPMI) have been ignored, ridiculed, stigmatized, locked away in prisons, forgotten in hospitals, or left to wander the streets of our small and large cities. LUCY is a mother's story of her daughter's long struggle with a relentless brain disease-schizophrenia-that has no cure and gives no quarter. It's past time to recognize that Lucy and thousands like her need ASYLUM-places of care, protection, and refuge-in a world that's passed them by. "Lucy, the Anguish of Schizophrenia was revised in 2005. That book was used for four semesters in a mental health nursing lab course at the College of Nursing at Florida State University in Tallahassee. It is currently being used for the third year as part of the curriculum in psychiatric nursing at Chattanooga State Technical Community College in Chattanooga, TN and as recommended reading for graduate family therapy courses at the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD." Megan Trotter, Herald-Citizen staff, Oct. 8,2009
Download or read book Human Anguish and God s Power written by David H. Kelsey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrinsically 'glorious' God' is 'sovereign' in three different ways, each of which has a different sense of 'power.'
Download or read book A Year of Anguish written by Karen Melander-Magoon and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year 2020 brought us political conflict even prior to pandemic, but it is Covid-19 which has most marked this year. My book describes in poetry my own journey from January to the present, which is still only mid-year. This has been for me a year of isolation from my loved ones, a year of learning more about nature and its wildlife, particularly the amazing birds of San Francisco, of long walks and meditation, a search into my inner world and a deeper understanding of compassion and the pain of others. This has been a year to view injustices and inequities and seek solutions; to view our government and its perilous stance on human rights, immigration and individual liberties. My book of poetry shows a chronological journey I have taken towards finding truth in our daily lives as we confront a global pandemic, police brutality, continuing global inequities, climate chaos, hurricanes and wildfires, and the death of some of our heroes in the battle for racial justice. It continues to be a year in which historical errors and injustices underlying our social structures are laid bare, a year in which we are forced to look at ourselves and our nation with honesty and find in each other a path forward to grace and hope.
Download or read book Children of Blood and Bone written by Tomi Adeyemi and published by Henry Holt Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zľie Adebola remembers when the soil of Ors̐ha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zľie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls.
Download or read book From Anguish to Hope written by Jody Schloss and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-01-21 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Jody’s life in poetry. At 23 years old, Jody was seriously injured in a car roll-over on a highway near L.A. She spent months in a coma and years in recovery. Jody writes about the extreme love and support that she received from my family and friends over the years. She also discusses her childhood, education and love for animals. Following her accident, Jody worked hard to pursue the life that she had always dreamed of, being a teacher, and working with children. She has always been very adventurous, and she manages to participate in my many exciting sports . Jody plans to write a second book to continue her story.
Download or read book Fathers Brothers and Sons Surviving Anguish Abandonment and Anthrax written by Frank Bello and published by . This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frank Bello, bassist with the legendary New York thrash metal band Anthrax since 1984, has sold over ten million albums, travelled the globe more times than he cares to count, and enthralled audiences from the world's biggest stages. His long-awaited memoir would be a gripping read even if its pages only contained stories about his life as a recording and touring musician. While those stories are indeed included--and will blow your mind--Bello also focuses on deeper subjects in Fathers, Brothers, and Sons. Once you've heard his life story, you'll understand why. Born into a family of five, Frank grew up in difficult circumstances. His father abandoned his wife and children, and Frank's mother moved heaven and earth to keep them fed and educated. Left with no male role model, Frank found inspiration in heavy metal bass players, following their example and forging a career with Anthrax from his early teens--first as a roadie, and then as the group's bass player. International stardom came Frank's way by the mid-to-late 1980s, when he was still in his early twenties, but tragedy struck in 1996 when his brother Anthony was murdered in New York. Although the case went to trial, the suspected killer was released without charge after a witness, intimidated by violent elements, withdrew his testimony. Two decades later, Frank is a father himself to a young son. Like many men who grew up without the guidance of a dad, he asks himself important questions about the meaning of fatherhood and how to do the job well. This is the wisdom which Fathers, Brothers, and Sons offers readers. Despite the emotive nature of these topics, Fathers, Brothers, and Sons is a funny, entertaining read. A man with a keen sense of humor and the perspective to know how surreal his story has been, Frank doesn't preach or seek sympathy in his book. Instead, he simply passes on the wisdom gained from a lifetime of turbulence, paying tribute to his loved ones in a way that will resonate with us all.
Download or read book America After Vietnam written by Tai Sung An and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-03 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1997, this volume explores the twenty years it has taken the United States to decide where Vietnam belongs on its mental landscape, as indicated by the establishment of official diplomatic relations between the two countries on August 5, 1995. Having won the Cold War, but lost a skirmish in Vietnam, America’s defeat can now be set in context against subsequent campaigns in Afghanistan, Angola, El Salvador, Eritrea, Nicaragua, Somalia, Sudan and elsewhere which suggest that the best any outsider can expect by intervening in Third World domestic conflicts is a hugely expensive, bloody stalemate. Tai Sung-An identifies that, despite America’s painful, deep and very expensive involvement in Vietnam for a lengthy two decades, Americans fought, failed and left while remaining ignorant of the most elementary knowledge of Vietnam, symptomatic of a cultural gap, isolationism and even intellectual complacency.
Download or read book Frida Kahlo written by Martha Zamora and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Director Shion Sono's loose adaptation of the Japanese manga of the same name, follows two teenagers' attempts to survive the aftermath of Japan's 2011 tsunami. Abandoned by his mother, 14-year-old Sumida (Shota Sometani) lives in a boathouse beside a lake and dreams of living a normal life free from his father (Ken Mitsuishi)'s casual beatings. Sharing his dreams of normality is his classmate Chazawa (Fumi Nikaidô), who has a crush on Sumida, even though her feelings are not reciprocated. As the pair try to come to terms with their seemingly bleak futures, events come to a head when Sumida's father taunts him to excess, resulting in a fatally violent altercation. With his dreams now dashed, but eager to make amends to society for his actions, Sumida takes to the streets as a self-styled vigilante, dispensing 'justice' with the aid of a kitchen knife.
Download or read book I Thought I Could Fly written by Charlee Brodsky and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning portraits--in words and photographs--of tragedy and hope in confronting mental illness.
Download or read book Ink Anguish written by Jay Lynch and published by Fantagraphics Books. This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The career of Jay Lynch―cartoonist, satirist, and counterculture archivist―spanned more than six decades. All his signature Nard ‘n’ Pat stories from Bijou Funnies are featured in this volume. There are also samples of his trading card illustrations (for Garbage Pail Kids and other Topps Chewing Gum series) and his paintings. Lynch also narrates his life story throughout the book, from his dysfunctional childhood to the day he selected his coffin and headstone, in a half-century series of interviews and correspondence with comic historian Patrick Rosenkranz.
Download or read book Primeval Origins written by Brett VonSik and published by . This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Epic Tale of the Origins of Mankind's Eternal War Between Good and Evil 2015 READER VIEWS REVIEWERS FIRST PLACE CHOICE AWARD Winner - 2014/2015 Young Adult Book of the Year, Reader Views Literary Awards Finalist - 2016 Fantasy Book of Year, International Book Awards Finalist - 2016 Fantasy Book of the Year, Reader Favorites Book Awards Distinguished Favorite - 2017 Fantasy Book of the Year, Independent Press Awards Winner - 2017 Fantasy Book of the Year, NYC Big Book Award Readers Favorite - 5-Stars Good Reads - 5 Stars Tomb Tender - 5 Stars Bookideas - 5 Stars Multiple Award-Winning Primeval Origins: Paths of Anguish (2nd Edition) is the first book of the epic origins story of mankind, our heavenly hosts, and the eternal war between good and evil where all is revealed, through characters both past and present, and tellings of humanity's heroic struggles against terrible tyrannies, deadly dinosaurs, and ancient gods as the origins of our End Times is revealed, answering the question, "What if all of our myths and legends are true?" Myths and Legends...just fables and fantasies for those taught to scoff at them is understood, as I was taught when a graduate student in the sciences; scorn and ridicule the forbidden. Myths are just...myths. Legends are just...legends. Then, I discovered different, in a South American dig where my life went upside down after finding what should not be with what we thought we knew so much about. My consciousness, my Light, plunged through a maelstrom bound to those of our undiscovered history. I witnessed through the eyes of ancient warriors, Rogaan and others, a wondrous human civilization of old, grand beasts and dinosaurs, and celestial gods of myth in what the modern Hopi and Maya branded our First World-Age. An age deep in blood and conflict born of gods and new man covetous of true powers and self-motivations loosing upon their world tyrannies, energy forces...sorceries, and abominations affronting Creation. Sealing the fates of the age, sword-messengers, warrior angels, risen new to bring forth the Harbinger of Creation's Judgments, slayers of civilizations...both of men and gods, the Horsemen. I am bound to them. In the here and now, standing at the precipice at the end of mankind's Fourth World-Age, I fear what is to come from the others...the Horsemen of Prophecy. And yet, I have hope for what follows. As our ancients did in tablets of clay teaching us our undiscovered past, I Nikki, now share these steel bound epics with you before the sounding of the trumpets. Visit the Primeval Origins websites at: celestialfurypublishing.com, primevalorigins.com, facebook.com/primevalorigins. The websites are loaded with news, the Primeval Origins Encyclopedia and Lexicon (all the background elements that you just can't stuff into the books).
