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  • No Mercy from the Japanese

    A Survivors Account of the Burma Railway and the Hellships, 1942–1945

    By the laws of statistics John Lowry should not be here today to tell his story. He firmly believes that someone somewhere was looking after him during those four years. Examine the odds stacked against him and his readers will understand why he hold this view. During the conflict in Malaya and Singapore his regiment lost two thirds of its men. More than three hundred patients and staff in the ... En savoir plus

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  • Blood on Their Hands

    Japanese Military Atrocities 1931–1945

    par Cecil Lowry ...
    From its invasion of Manchuria through to the Allies' victory in 1945 the Japanese Imperial Army was guilty of widespread atrocities against its enemies and, in particular, the civilians of occupied countries. Massacre, human experimentation, starvation, forced labour and even cannibalism were commonplace during that period. It has been estimated that the number of deaths which resulted from these ... En savoir plus

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  • Frank Pantridge MC

    Japanese Prisoner of War and Inventor of the Portable Defibrillator

    par Cecil Lowry ...
    A biography of the British World War II veteran and Japanese POW camp survivor who went on to create a life-saving device.Countless thousands of men and women around the world have good reason to be thankful that Frank Pantridge survived three and a half years of brutal Japanese captivity. Had he not, they too would in all probability have died too.Taken prisoner at the fall of Singapore in ... En savoir plus

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  • Last Post over the River Kwai

    The 2nd East Surreys in the Far East, 1938–1945

    par Cecil Lowry ...
    Last Post Over the River Kwai is the carefully researched account of the experiences of the officers and men of 2nd Battalion The East Surreys during the Second World War.Stationed in Shanghai in the early 1940s, the Battalion was deployed to Malaya and fought gallantly to slow the Japanese advance. After heavy losses the survivors found themselves POWs in Singapore in February 1942 after the ... En savoir plus

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  • Japan's Gestapo

    Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia

    par Mark Felton ...
    From the author of Children of the Camps, a look at the disturbing activities of the Kempeitai, Japan's feared military and secret police.The book opens by explaining the origins, organization, and roles of the Kempeitai apparatus, which exercised virtually unlimited power throughout the Japanese Empire. Author Mark Felton reveals their criminal and collaborationist networks that extorted huge ... En savoir plus

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  • Midlothian Mayhem

    Murder, Miners and the Military in Old Midlothian

    Murders, riots, strikes and runaway horses. Midlothian in the 18th and 19th centuries was an interesting place to live.This book introduces the reader to the hard lives of the colliers, the birth of the rural police force and the impact the army had on life in the county south of Scotland's capital city. Highwaymen and grave robbers, footpads and murderers, illicit distillers and murderous ... En savoir plus

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  • It's A Strange Place, England

    par Jack Strange ...
    Collections Livre 2 - Jack's Strange Tales
    This small book looks at some of the strange things that make England unique, starting with the English language itself and looking at concepts such as sports, ghosts and the English love for eccentricity - like the sportsman who rode his horse naked.As well as strange people, the book looks at strange places. For example, there is the canal across Southern England that was dug to keep back ... En savoir plus

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  • House of Tudor

    A Grisly History

    par Mickey Mayhew ...
    Forty-five gruesome but not gratuitous accounts from the Tudor reign, including the death of Richard III and the botched execution of Mary Queen of Scots.This decidedly darker take on the Tudors, from 1485 to 1603, covers a whole host of horrors from the Tudor reign. Particular attention is paid to the various gruesome ways in which the Tudors despatched their various villains and lawbreakers, ... En savoir plus

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  • Queens of the Underworld

    A Journey into the Lives of Female Crooks

    par Caitlin Davies ...
    ***'This book is an extremely important part of women's social history. Read it!'***- Maxine PeakeRobin Hood, Dick Turpin, Ronnie Biggs, the Krays … All have become folk heroes, glamorised and romanticised, even when they killed. But where are their female equivalents? Where are the street robbers, gang leaders, diamond thieves, gold smugglers and bank robbers?Queens of the Underworld reveals the ... En savoir plus

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  • Riding With Cochise

    The Apache Story of America's Longest War

    par Steve Price ...
    Riding With Cochise brings the violent drama of the American Southwest to life through the eyes of the legendary Apache chieftain Cochise and three other tribal leaders, Geronimo, Victorio, and Mangas Coloradas. Relying largely on the oral histories told by relatives of these great warriors as well as personal diaries of others who were involved, veteran author Steve Price takes the reader deep ... En savoir plus

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  • Just Another Day in Vietnam

    This military memoir examines one of the most vicious and tragically forgotten battles of the Vietnam War from a variety of perspectives.In June of 1967, the Viet Cong sought to isolate and destroy an elite South Vietnamese unit as part of a new offensive strategy. They sent a voluntary POW as an "informant" to dupe the 52nd Vietnamese Ranger Battalion into taking a dangerous position in the III ... En savoir plus

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  • The Girl and the Bombardier

    A True Story of Resistance and Rescue in Nazi-Occupied France

    This enthralling WWII biography combines a downed B-17 bombardier's unfinished memoir with letters from the French girl who saved his life.Susan Tate Ankeny's father was a World War II veteran bombardier who had bailed from a burning B-17 over Nazi-occupied France in 1944. After he died, she found his unfinished memoir, stacks of envelopes, black-and-white photographs, mission reports, dog tags, ... En savoir plus

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