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Book Das zweite Gesicht   The Face of Pearl Harbor

Download or read book Das zweite Gesicht The Face of Pearl Harbor written by Mark Siegelberg and published by Iudicium. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even more than seventy years after the Second World War, German exile literature continues to wait with surprises. This is true in particular for the estates of those writers who fled across less 'privileged' routes to remote places such as Shanghai. Mark Siegelberg (1895–1986) was one of them. The nowadays almost forgotten Austrian Jewish journalist, novelist and playwright set out on the long route to East Asia in 1939, after being released from Buchenwald concentration camp, where he had been interned the previous year. His Shanghai period lasted until the beginning of December 1941, when he was evacuated to Australia. His final destination of exile was Melbourne; there he would live for 27 years before returning to Austria in 1968. Siegelberg deserves distinction as the only German-language author who ever addressed the Pearl Harbor attack of December 7th, 1941 as the topic of a literary work, and, moreover, as one who did so in the immediacy of the historic events on the Pacific Front. The unique result of this commitment is the play Das zweite Gesicht/The Face of Pearl Harbor (1942). The piece, in which Siegelberg displays a complex world political scenario against the backdrop of the militarized city of Shanghai held in check by the Japanese, attests to the author's indignation over the escalation of violence in East Asia during the turbulent phase leading up to the outbreak of the Pacific War. While an English translation of the piece appeared in Australia in 1944, supposedly as an anti-Japanese propaganda initiative, the original text in German is published in this volume for the very first time.

Book China and Ashkenazic Jewry  Transcultural Encounters

Download or read book China and Ashkenazic Jewry Transcultural Encounters written by Kathryn Hellerstein and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-04-04 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the past thirty years, the Sino-Jewish encounter in modern China has increasingly garnered scholarly and popular attention. This volume will be the first to focus on the transcultural exchange between Ashkenazic Jewry and China. The essays here investigate how this exchange of texts and translations, images and ideas, has enriched both Jewish and Chinese cultures and prepared for a global, inclusive world literature. The book breaks new ground in the field, covering such new topics as the images of China in Yiddish and German Jewish letters, the intersectionality of the Jewish and Chinese literature in illuminating the implications for a truly global and inclusive world literature, the biographies of prominent figures in Chinese-Jewish connections, the Chabad engagement in contemporary China. Some of the fundamental debates in the current scholarship will also be addressed, with a special emphasis on how many Jewish refugees arrived in Shanghai and how much interaction occurred between the Jewish refugees and the resident Chinese population during the wartime and its aftermath.

Book China from the Margins

Download or read book China from the Margins written by Emily Williams and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores and brings to light untold stories from the margins of Chinese society. It investigates and reveals grassroots and popular cultural beliefs, amusing anecdotes, items of lore, and accounts of the strange and the unusual. It delves into questions of identity formation, considering gender, sexuality, class, generational divides, subcultures, national minorities and online communities. It examines heritage-making practices and the persistence of marginalized memories. Bringing together views from cultural studies, literature, gender studies, cultural heritage, sociology, history and more, the book argues that neither the margins nor the centre can be understood in isolation, and that by focusing on the margins, a fuller picture of Chinese society overall emerges, including new perspectives on spatial and social marginality, on hierarchies of marginality, and on neglected spaces, voices and identities.

Book The Attack on Pearl Harbor

Download or read book The Attack on Pearl Harbor written by Michael Burgan and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides comprehensive information on the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the differing perspectives accompanying it.

Book The Attack on Pearl Harbor

Download or read book The Attack on Pearl Harbor written by John C. Davenport and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces events leading up to and resulting from the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on American battleships at Pearl Harbor, which brought the United States into World War II.

Book Radioman

Download or read book Radioman written by Ray Daves and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-10-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biography of Ray Daves, a noncommissioned officer in the U.S. Navy--Jacket p. [2].

Book Eyewitness to Infamy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Joseph Travers
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2016-10-01
  • ISBN : 1493023446
  • Pages : 353 pages

Download or read book Eyewitness to Infamy written by Paul Joseph Travers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor changed the lives of almost every American, and began the process of putting 17 million of them in uniform to fight in World War II. Yet in the long and fascinating body of literature about this terrible event, most historians have neglected the compelling and moving accounts of the surviving military personnel and civilians who were on Oahu at the time of the attack, at dawn on December 7, 1941. Eyewitness to Infamy is their story—the astonishing oral history of the brutal attack that pushed the United States into WWII on the side of the Allies: the British, French, and Russians. With the help of the Pearl Harbor Survivors’ Association, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the American Legion, Paul Travers collected more than 200 eyewitness accounts from which he painstakingly selected those critical to this behind-the-scenes narrative account. With breathtaking clarity, the narratives cover the full range of military activity on the island, along battleship row, and around the harbor, while portraying the human side of the event—the heroic, the tragic, and the terrible reality of the assault.

Book Day Of Deceit

Download or read book Day Of Deceit written by Robert Stinnett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-05-08 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using previously unreleased documents, the author reveals new evidence that FDR knew the attack on Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing to prevent it.

Book Betrayal at Pearl Harbor

Download or read book Betrayal at Pearl Harbor written by James Rusbridger and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Pearl Harbor Myth

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Victor
  • Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 1597973351
  • Pages : 592 pages

Download or read book The Pearl Harbor Myth written by George Victor and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did U.S. intelligence know of Japan's coming attack on Pearl Harbor? Did President Roosevelt know? If so, why did he withhold warnings from the commanders in Hawaii? The answers are embedded in the cogent analysis of The Pearl Harbor Myth. Based on voluminous data that does not appear in other books on the topic, it discusses in detail Roosevelt's developing strategy-both military and diplomatic-and his secret alliances to save the world from Hitler. It contains a wealth of fresh material on secret diplomacy; on secret military strategy, planning, and intelligence; and on disguised combat operations that began six months before the Pearl Harbor attack.

Book At Dawn We Slept

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  • Author : Gordon W. Prange
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1991-12-01
  • ISBN : 1101664215
  • Pages : 924 pages

Download or read book At Dawn We Slept written by Gordon W. Prange and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1991-12-01 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisit the definitive book on Pearl Harbor in advance of the 78th anniversary (December 7, 2019) of the "date which will live in infamy" At 7:53 a.m., December 7, 1941, America's national consciousness and confidence were rocked as the first wave of Japanese warplanes took aim at the U.S. Naval fleet stationed at Pearl Harbor. As intense and absorbing as a suspense novel, At Dawn We Slept is the unparalleled and exhaustive account of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor. It is widely regarded as the definitive assessment of the events surrounding one of the most daring and brilliant naval operations of all time. Through extensive research and interviews with American and Japanese leaders, Gordon W. Prange has written a remarkable historical account of the assault that-sixty years later-America cannot forget. "The reader is bound to feel its power....It is impossible to forget such an account." —The New York Times Book Review "At Dawn We Slept is the definitive account of Pearl Harbor." —Chicago Sun-Times

Book Uneasy Warriors

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sabine Frühstück
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2007-08-14
  • ISBN : 0520247957
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book Uneasy Warriors written by Sabine Frühstück and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is one of the best—most surprising, insightful, provocative—books I've read on the complex interplay of memory, militarism and masculinity. Japan specialists will be sure to find it thought-provoking. But it should also be 'must reading' for all students of masculinity, femininity, militarization, and soldiering. This is comparative feminist ethnography at its smartest."—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire "Uneasy Warriors presents a rare and intimate view into the psychological and social workings of the Self-Defense Forces. As the US and Japanese governments gear up to change the Japanese anti-war constitution, this book is even more important for understanding what the consequences will be."—Catherine Lutz, author of Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century "Sabine Frühstück expertly describes the ambiguous status of the Japanese Self Defense Forces. The book reveals insights gained from several years of sustained research, including a stint "in uniform" at an army base near Mt. Fuji. Frühstück's observations about the SDF's public relations emphasis on "cute" popular cultural media are timely and trenchant, as are her analyses of the militarization of masculinity and femininity."—Jennifer Robertson, author of Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan

Book The Second Attack on Pearl Harbor

Download or read book The Second Attack on Pearl Harbor written by Steve Horn and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Om Japans andet angreb på Pearl Harbor i marts 1942, også kaldet Operation K. To Kawanashi H8K "Emily" flyvebåde udførte operationen over en 36-timers periode, idet japanerne benyttede sig af u-både til at tanke flyvebådene under operationen. videre berettes om japanske planer om at gennemføre bombetogter imod USA.

Book Pearl Harbor Recalled

    Book Details:
  • Author : Tom W. Freeman
  • Publisher : Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 186 pages

Download or read book Pearl Harbor Recalled written by Tom W. Freeman and published by Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on eyewitness accounts, research, and archaeological evidence, a maritime artist presents paintings that offer a chronological graphic interpretation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Book Pearl Harbor

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Morgenstern
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by George Morgenstern and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Day of Infamy

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  • Author : Steven Otfinoski
  • Publisher : Capstone Classroom
  • Release : 2015-08
  • ISBN : 1491470828
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book Day of Infamy written by Steven Otfinoski and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a narrative nonfiction format, follows people who experienced the attack on Pearl Harbor"--

Book Pearl Harbor

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gordon William Prange
  • Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 760 pages

Download or read book Pearl Harbor written by Gordon William Prange and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE CONTROVERSIAL SEQUEL TO AT DAWN WE SLEPT -- A PROBING ANALYSIS OF THE ROOT CAUSES OF PEARL HARBOR, AMERICA'S MOST CATASTROPHIC MILITARY DEFEATThe monumental bestseller At Dawn We Slept was a landmark re-creation of the apocalyptic events of December 7, 1941. This provocative sequel delves even further to examine the underlying causes of Pearl Harbor and the revisionist theories that Roosevelt and other high officials knew about the attack.With the same imposing scholarship and narrative drive that distinguished its predecessor, Pearl Harbor uncovers the secret roles played by the president, his cabinet secretaries, admirals, and generals in the weeks before the attack. Based on more than forty years of research, extensive interviews, and an insider's knowledge of the military, this book poses an explosive and highly convincing new theory of America's entry into the Pacific War. Like the very best works of history, it not only expands but dramatically deepens our understanding of the events that were once the province of myth and rumor.