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Author | : William Tate |
Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2016-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473880750 |
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These are the firsthand memoirs of the late William Albert Tate (W.O, RAF Bomber Command) framed within the factual history of his service career in the Royal Air Force between the years 1938 and 1946, penned by his son. This gripping narrative relays William's firsthand recollections of his time spent as a Japanese Prisoner of War, when he was incarcerated for two years in Rangoon Gaol, after bailing out of his Wellington over Burma. Tales of the harsh brutalities inflicted by his captors and the unsanitary conditions in which he and his fellow captives were held offer a real sense of the everyday realities experienced by Japanese Prisoners of War at this time. Jungle diseases, enforced starvation, sadistic torture tactics and the ever present threat of aerial bombardment all beset these prisoners. William and his son meditate on the legacies of enduring such trials as these in an engaging account of survival against the odds.
Author | : William Albert Tate |
Publisher | : Pen & Sword Aviation |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 9781473880733 |
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* An honest and frank first-hand account of life as a Japanese Prisoner of War. * Set solidly in historical context by the author's son. * A gripping tale of survival against the odds, enhanced by the inclusion of photographs and documents taken directly from the author's family archive.
Author | : William Albert Tate |
Publisher | : Pen & Sword Aviation |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9781473880740 |
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Author | : William Albert Tate |
Publisher | : Pen & Sword Aviation |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY |
ISBN | : 9781473880764 |
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Author | : Peter R. Wygle |
Publisher | : Ventura, CA : Pathfinder |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Manila (Philippines) |
ISBN | : 9780934793308 |
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This is a touching and sometimes humorous story of an American family’s survival in a Japanese internment camp during World War II. Eleven-year-old Peter Wygle's story and his father's diary create a poignant adventure that reads like a novel. This is a compelling story of the struggle to survive when the enemies were not only the Japanese, but also some fellow prisoners.
Author | : Judith L. Pearson |
Publisher | : Diversion Publishing Corp. |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1626812918 |
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“A searing tribute . . . [to] America in its bleakest hour” (Sen. John McCain, New York Times–bestselling author of Faith of My Fathers). On December 13, 1944, POW Estel Myers was herded aboard the Japanese prison ship, the Oryoku Maru, with more than sixteen hundred other American captives. More than eleven hundred of them would be dead by journey’s end . . . The son of a Kentucky sharecropper and an enlistee in the navy’s medical corps, Myers arrived in Manila shortly before the bombings of Pearl Harbor and the other six targets of the Imperial Japanese military. While he and his fellow corpsmen tended to the bloody tide of soldiers pouring into their once peaceful naval hospital, the Japanese overwhelmed the Pacific islands, capturing seventy-eight thousand POWs by April 1942. Myers was one of the first captured. After a brutal three-year encampment, Myers and his fellow POWs were forced onto an enemy hell ship bound for Japan. Suffocation, malnutrition, disease, dehydration, infestation, madness, and complete despair claimed the lives of nearly three quarters of those who boarded “the beast.” Myers survived. A compelling account of a rarely recorded event in military history, this is more than Myers’s true story—this is an homage to the unfailing courage of men at war, an inspiring chronicle of self-sacrifice and endurance, and a tribute to the power of faith, the strength of the soul, and the triumph of the human spirit. “An inspiring look at one of World War II’s darkest hours.” —James Bradley, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Flags of our Fathers and Flyboys “A searing chronicle.” —Kirkus Reviews
Author | : Frank J. Grady |
Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 9781557503404 |
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Frank Grady's remarkable account of his years as a prisoner-of-war - his capture, his interrogations, his labor, his survival strategies - offers a riveting portrayal of the heroic efforts required to outlast a hellish war. As head of the U.S. Army's cryptography department in the Philippines handling all incoming and outgoing messages for generals Douglas MacArthur and Jonathan Wainwright, Grady was of special interest to the Japanese when captured in the spring of 1942. His memoir describes his first months as a POW in the infamous Cabanatuan camp and his subsequent transfer to Japan, where he attempted to outwit his interrogators about American cryptographic techniques. This book is more than the story of one man's survival. It is a moving account of wartime conditions that brought out the best and the worst in the prisoners, guards, and Japanese civilians. Grady perceptively depicts the uglier dimensions of human nature - betrayal, cowardice, greed, and wanton viciousness - but also celebrates the tenacity, intelligence, compassion, and determined good spirits that kept him and hundreds of other American prisoners alive in spite of severe malnourishment. From a murderous camp commander who was tried and hanged after the war to a kind civilian woman, Grady came into direct contact with far more Japanese than did most POWs, and he relates these encounters in detail. One of few Americans who saw Tokyo after the firebombing of March 1945, he also offers a personal glimpse of the destruction of the city. An unusual climax to the memoir comes when his own camp, near the port town of Kamaishi, is unknowingly destroyed by the U.S. Navy.
Author | : Francis Pike |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 1209 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1350021229 |
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Named one of Foreign Affairs' Best Books of 2016 In his magisterial 1,208 page narrative of the Pacific War, Francis Pike's Hirohito's War offers an original interpretation, balancing the existing Western-centric view with attention to the Japanese perspective on the conflict. As well as giving a 'blow-by-blow' account of campaigns and battles, Francis Pike offers many challenges to the standard interpretations with regards to the causes of the war; Emperor Hirohito's war guilt; the inevitability of US Victory; the abilities of General MacArthur and Admiral Yamamoto; the role of China, Great Britain and Australia; military and naval technology; and the need for the fire-bombing of Japan and the eventual use of the atom bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hirohito's War is accompanied by additional online resources, including more details on logistics, economics, POWs, submarines and kamikaze, as well as a 1930-1945 timeline and over 200 maps.
Author | : Penny Starns |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 2010-12-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0752462318 |
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Using recently released material from the National Archives and Turner's own words, Starns re-analyses the Pacific conflict against a backdrop of one person's incredible fortitude and strength, and brings the story of a remarkable woman to life.
Author | : Philip Warner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780882541631 |
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