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Author : Alexander Frater
Release : 1996
Genre : Aeronautics, Commercial
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 291/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder by : Alexander Frater
Download or read book Where the Dawn Comes Up Like Thunder written by Alexander Frater. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leo Rawlings
Release : 2015-09-03
Genre : War artists
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 944/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder by : Leo Rawlings
Download or read book And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder written by Leo Rawlings. This book was released on 2015-09-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "And the Dawn Came Up Like Thunder is the experience of an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese at Singapore in February 1942. Leo Rawlings' story is told in his own pictures and his own words; a world that is uncompromising, vivid and raw. He pulls no punches. For the first time cruelty inflicted on the prisoners of war by their own officers is depicted as well as shocking images of POW life. This is truly a view of the River Kwai experience for a 21st Century audience. The new edition includes pictures never before published as well as an extensive new commentary by Dr Nigel Stanley, an expert on Rawlings and the medical problems faced on the Burma Railway. More than just a commentary on the history and terrible facts behind Rawlings' work, it stands on its own as a guide to the hidden lives of the prisoners."--Publishers website.
Author : Rudyard Kipling
Release : 1897
Genre : Adventure stories, English
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Second Jungle Book by : Rudyard Kipling
Download or read book The Second Jungle Book written by Rudyard Kipling. This book was released on 1897. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the further adventures of Mowgli, a boy reared by a pack of wolves, and the wild animals of the jungle. Also includes other short stories set in India.
Author : Michael Ondaatje
Release : 2010-10-08
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 897/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anil's Ghost by : Michael Ondaatje
Download or read book Anil's Ghost written by Michael Ondaatje. This book was released on 2010-10-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winning a Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction, the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, Anil’s Ghost is another award-winning novel from Michael Ondaatje. Steeped in centuries of cultural achievement and tradition, Sri Lanka has been ravaged in the late twentieth century by bloody civil war. Anil Tissera, born in Sri Lanka but educated in England and the U.S., is sent by an international human rights group to participate in an investigation into suspected mass political murders in her homeland. Working with an archaeologist, she discovers a skeleton whose identity takes Anil on a fascinating journey that involves a riveting mystery. What follows, in a novel rich with character, emotion, and incident, is a story about love and loss, about family, identity and the unknown enemy. And it is a quest to unlock the hidden past—like a handful of soil analyzed by an archaeologist, the story becomes more diffuse the farther we reach into history. A universal tale of the casualties of war, unfolding as a detective story, the book gradually gives way to a more intricate exploration of its characters, a symphony of loss and loneliness haunted by a cast of solitary strangers and ghosts. The atrocities of a seemingly futile, muddled war are juxtaposed against the ancient, complex and ultimately redemptive culture and landscape of Sri Lanka.
Author : Robert J. Mrazek
Release : 2008
Genre : World War, 1939-1945
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Book Rating : /5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Dawn Like Thunder by : Robert J. Mrazek
Download or read book A Dawn Like Thunder written by Robert J. Mrazek. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the contributions of World War II's Torpedo Squadron Eight traces their role in key U.S. victories at Midway and Guadalcanal, citing the honors achieved, and losses suffered, by its thirty-five members.
