Bridge To The Sun

Author : Gwen Terasaki
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615432724
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridge to the Sun written by Gwen Terasaki and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-27 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the author's marriage to a Japanese diplomat during World War II, their internment in White Sulpher Springs and Hot Springs, their voyage on the Gripsholm and their life in Japan during the war.

Author : Bruce Henderson
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525655824
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridge to the Sun written by Bruce Henderson and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the last, great untold stories of World War II—kept hidden for decades—even after most of the World War II records were declassified in 1972, many of the files remained untouched in various archives—a gripping true tale of courage and adventure from Bruce Henderson, master storyteller, historian, and New York Times best-selling author of Sons and Soldiers—the saga of the Japanese American U.S. Army soldiers who fought in the Pacific theater, in Burma, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, with their families back home in America, under U.S. Executive Order 9066, held behind barbed wire in government internment camps. After Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military was desperate to find Americans who spoke Japanese to serve in the Pacific war. They soon turned to the Nisei—first-generation U.S. citizens whose parents were immigrants from Japan. Eager to prove their loyalty to America, several thousand Nisei—many of them volunteering from the internment camps where they were being held behind barbed wire—were selected by the Army for top-secret training, then were rushed to the Pacific theater. Highly valued as expert translators and interrogators, these Japanese American soldiers operated in elite intelligence teams alongside Army infantrymen and Marines on the front lines of the Pacific war, from Iwo Jima to Burma, from the Solomons to Okinawa. Henderson reveals, in riveting detail, the harrowing untold story of the Nisei and their major contributions in the war of the Pacific, through six Japanese American soldiers. After the war, these soldiers became translators and interrogators for war crime trials, and later helped to rebuild Japan as a modern democracy and a pivotal U.S. ally.

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593470958
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bridge of San Luis Rey written by Thornton Wilder and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Pulitzer Prize-winning, fable-like short novel—by the author of Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth—has been beloved around the world for nearly a century. This splendid and profoundly moving novel begins with a simple and seemingly senseless tragedy. "On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." A traveling monk, Brother Juniper, witnesses the catastrophe and becomes obsessed with investigating the lives of the five victims in order to prove that their deaths had meaning. His mission is doomed to fail, but over the course of the story, the five unlucky individuals—a noblewoman, a maid, an orphan, an old man, and a child—come to life for the reader in all of their glorious complexity. Their intertwined lives—snuffed out in one shattering moment—illuminate the biggest questions that we can ask ourselves about the nature of love and meaning of the human condition.

Author : Roger B. Jeans
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739134009
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Terasaki Hidenari, Pearl Harbor, and Occupied Japan written by Roger B. Jeans and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study, an attempt has been made to replace myth with a realistic and balanced portrait of the political intelligence and propaganda agent who strove to avert a Japanese-American war before Pearl Harbor and the imperial aide who tried to save his emperor following the war. Instead of solely relying on MAGIC materials or the ... memoir by Terasaki's widow, fresh archival and FBI materials have made it possible to portray 'a man in full'"--Introduction.

Author : Mary Lawson
Publisher : Dial Press
ISBN 13 : 0440336376
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Other Side of the Bridge written by Mary Lawson and published by Dial Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the beloved #1 national bestseller Crow Lake comes an exceptional new novel of jealously, rivalry and the dangerous power of obsession. Two brothers, Arthur and Jake Dunn, are the sons of a farmer in the mid-1930s, when life is tough and another world war is looming. Arthur is reticent, solid, dutiful and set to inherit the farm and his father’s character; Jake is younger, attractive, mercurial and dangerous to know – the family misfit. When a beautiful young woman comes into the community, the fragile balance of sibling rivalry tips over the edge. Then there is Ian, the family’s next generation, and far too sure he knows the difference between right and wrong. By now it is the fifties, and the world has changed—a little, but not enough. These two generations in the small town of Struan, Ontario, are tragically interlocked, linked by fate and community but separated by a war which devours its young men—its unimaginable horror reaching right into the heart of this remote corner of an empire. With her astonishing ability to turn the ratchet of tension slowly and delicately, Lawson builds their story to a shocking climax. Taut with apprehension, surprising us with moments of tenderness and humour, The Other Side of the Bridge is a compelling, humane and vividly evoked novel with an irresistible emotional undertow.

Author : Gloria Whelan
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1410308472
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mackinac Bridge written by Gloria Whelan and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the late 1950s, this is the moving story of a young boy whose father operates a ferryboat between Michigan's Upper and Lower peninsulas. As young Mark witnesses the building of the new Mackinac Bridge, he is torn between family loyalty and eager anticipation. He can't help being awestruck by the majesty of the five-mile-long bridge that will connect the two peninsulas and change the lives of so many. But the Mighty Mac will also put Mark's father out of business. As his father struggles with the flow of progress, Mark dreams of future bridges he will build. Details of the complex construction of the bridge will fascinate children as they learn an important part of America's history and come to understand the meaning of change. The Mackinac Bridge Authority provides history notes at the back of the book.

Author : Jeffrey Zuehlke
Publisher : Lerner Publications
ISBN 13 : 0822594072
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Golden Gate Bridge written by Jeffrey Zuehlke and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the Golden Gate Bridge that connects Marin County to the city of San Francisco, including information about its history, design, and construction.

Author : Faye Moskowitz
Publisher : The Feminist Press at CUNY
ISBN 13 : 155861771X
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book And the Bridge Is Love written by Faye Moskowitz and published by The Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of life stories so funny, moving that “you don’t have to be a Jewish feminist mama to love this book . . . but it wouldn’t hurt” (Tablet Magazine). Here are the collected autobiographical writings of memoirist, poet, and professor Faye Moskowitz. Known for both her sense of humor—even in the bleakest of circumstances—and her insight into the relationships that define who we are, where we come from, and where we hope to be going, Moskowitz shares her own life stories in “a book that will make you stand up and cheer” (The Detroit News). From her childhood in Detroit during the Great Depression to the time when her mother abandoning the family to pursue her own dreams; from helping a dying friend simply get through another day to a hilarious account of binge eating at a wedding; from finding love and leaving home to building her own family and legacy, these recounted experiences give us “her piercingly tender observations about unlikely friendships, transgressive love, disappointing plants, and sacred Jewish rituals of the kitchen” (Lilith Magazine).

Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sun Also Rises written by Ernest Hemingway and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : Tyndale House Pub
ISBN 13 : 1414368186
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bridge to Haven written by Francine Rivers and published by Tyndale House Pub. This book was released on 2014 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having been abandoned as a newborn and found and raised by Pastor Ezekiel Freeman in the small California town of Haven, Abra Matthews feels like she doesn't belong and at the age of seventeen runs off to Hollywood, becoming starlet Lena Scott.