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  • 1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    par Cary Owtram ...
    A British officer recounts his harrowing years as a POW in Thailand, including his time as the camp commandant, in this WWII memoir.Colonel Cary Owtram served with the 137th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery, and the 11th Indian Infantry Division in Malaysia. After being captured by the Japanese in Singapore, he was transported to the infamous Burma railway. He went on to spend the next three and a ... En savoir plus

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    1000 Days on the River Kwai

    The Secret Diary of a British Camp Commandant

    par H C Owtram ...
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    5 heure 52 min

    Memoirs by former prisoners of war of the Japanese invariably make for moving reading but Colonel Owtrams account of his years of captivity has a special significance.After being captured in Singapore and transported to the infamous Burma railway he was appointed the British Camp Commandant at Chungkai, one of the largest POW camps.Many ex-prisoners testified to the mental and physical courage ... En savoir plus

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    Codebreaking Sisters

    Our Secret War

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    6 heure 14 min

    This is the astonishing story of persistence, comradeship and fighting spirit showed by everyday people in bringing the Nazis down.Patricia and Jean Owtram are possibly the only living sisters to have signed the wartime Official Secrets Act. Raised in a Lancashire country house in the 1920s, the family takes in two Austrian Jewish refugees, and the sisters quickly become fluent in German - which ... En savoir plus

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  • Churchill's Shadow Raiders

    The Race to Develop Radar, World War II's Invisible Secret Weapon

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  • Nurses of Passchendaele

    Caring for the Wounded of the Ypres Campaigns 1914–1918

    The Ypres Salient saw some of the bitterest fighting of the First World War. The once-fertile fields of Flanders were turned into a quagmire through which men fought for four years. In casualty clearing stations, on ambulance trains and barges, and at base hospitals near the French and Belgian coasts, nurses of many nations cared for these traumatized and damaged men.Drawing on letters, diaries ... En savoir plus

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  • Dunkirk: Nine Days That Saved An Army

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  • Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots

    A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland

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    D-Day - June 6, 1944 - was a pivotal day in human history. This was the great turning point of the Second World War, when the largest armada ever assembled took a third of a million Allied men across the English Channel.The invasion force of 150,000 troops from Britain, the United States, Canada and many other nations fighting on the Allied side on D-Day under the command of Generals Eisenhower ... En savoir plus

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