Padre Of The Burma Road

Author : Christopher Sullivan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781432798376
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Padre of the Burma Road written by Christopher Sullivan and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the young age of twenty-seven, a newly ordained Franciscan priest, Father Christopher Sullivan is sent to China to teach and work in rural China to help establish missions. He describes unbelievable tales of his sacred journey and life as a missionary and transformation as a rural healer. During the Japanese invasion of China from 1940 to 1941, Father Christopher transported supplies from Rangoon to Kunming. He drove and sold trucks through the narrow, winding and mountainous highway of the Burma Road to deliver medications and supplies from the Red Cross to the missions and people in rural China. He was endearingly referred to as the "Padre of the Burma Road." After escaping death by inches on several occasions, Father Christopher Sullivan left his assignment as a Franciscan priest in China during 1941, and sought refuge in the Philippines. He was captured by the Japanese in Bataan in 1942, while working for the Army Quartermaster Corps, and walked the brutal "Bataan Death March." After his harrowing three years in the Japanese prison camps, he met and married Anicia, a young beautiful Filipino woman.

Author : Felicity Goodall
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075246664X
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exodus Burma written by Felicity Goodall and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamt the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers trained for desert warfare fought a Japanese Army trained and equipped for the jungle. Those who survived this fierce fighting faced malaria, air attack, and lack of food and water, on the long walk out through the Valley of Death. Ragged groups of soldiers and civilians were forced to trek out of Burma through some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world. They hacked their way through jungle, forded rivers, and climbed steep mountainsides to escape. Many did not survive the journey. Among these incredible stories was that of Bill Williams, who led refugees out on a herd of elephants. Other civilians who had enjoyed an idyllic colonial lifestyle were ill-equipped for the journey. Setting off with the family silver and their pets, they soon had to abandon all but the essentials in order to survive. Thousands died, but many more crossed the border into India and safety.

Author : Romeo P. Virtusio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Padre, and Other Stories written by Romeo P. Virtusio and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cornelius, Wanda
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455603558
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ding Hao written by Cornelius, Wanda and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This history book celebrates a near-forgotten band of gallant American airmen, led by Claire Lee Chennault, who served in the midst of a strange land at a time of great turmoil. They arrived in China, not as conquerors, but as codefenders, appreciated by the most humble and grateful Chinese who would smile to them and in many cases utter the only mutually recognizable words of communication: 'Ding Hao, ' meaning 'It is good.'

Author : Frank N. Trager
Publisher : New Haven : Human Relations Area Files Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Burma: a Selected and Annotated Bibliography written by Frank N. Trager and published by New Haven : Human Relations Area Files Press. This book was released on 1973 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated version of 1956 edition which was titled: Annotated bibliography of Burma.

Author : Robert Henry Lawson Slater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guns Through Arcady written by Robert Henry Lawson Slater and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Daniel Ford
Publisher : Warbird Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remains written by Daniel Ford and published by Warbird Books. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fitz and Blackie have joined the American Volunteer Group, mercenary pilots who became famous in the defense of Burma and China as the Flying Tigers. Love, fear, death, and disillusionment are the payoff, along with a $500 bonus for each Japanese plane they destroy. "A cracking good yarn about interesting people, including the Japanese fighter pilot whose story adds special realism to the battles." (Air&Space / Smithsonian magazine) By the author of the definitive history of Claire Chennault and the AVG.

Author : Kemp Tolley
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
ISBN 13 : 1612512232
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cruise of the Lanikai written by Kemp Tolley and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2014-01-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In early December 1941 in the Philippines, a young Navy ensign named Kemp Tolley was given his first ship command, an old 76-foot schooner that had once served as a movie prop in John Ford's "The Hurricane." Crewed mostly by Filipinos who did not speak English and armed with a cannon that had last seen service in the Spanish-American War, the Lanikai was under top-secret presidential orders to sail south into waters where the Japanese fleet was thought to be. Ostensibly the crew was to spy on Japanese naval movements, but to Tolley it was clear that their mission was to create an incident that would provoke war. Events overtook the plan, however, when Pearl Harbor was bombed before the Lanikaicould get underway. When Bataan and Corregidor fell, she was ordered to set sail for Australia and became one of the few U.S. naval vessels to escape the Philippines. In this book Tolley tells the saga of her great adventure during these grim, early days of the war and makes history come alive as he regales the reader with details of the operation and an explanation of President Roosevelt's order. Tolley's description of their escape in Japanese warship-infested waters ranks with the best of sea tales, and few will be able to forget the Lanikai's 4,000-mile, three-month odyssey.

Author : E. R. Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Burma-Thailand Railway of Death written by E. R. Hall and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Godman
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075095311X
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will to Survive written by Arthur Godman and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taken prisoner after the fall of Singapore in 1942, Arthur Godman spent the next three and a half years on the Burma-Siam railway, living in camps along the River Kwai. Like other PoWs, he experienced disease and malnutrition and witnessed the painful deaths of many of his comrades. Yet somehow he retained his sense of humour and perspective, recalling, among the casual cruelties inflicted by the Japanese, small acts of kindness between guards and prisoners which enabled him to retain his faith in humanity. In order to survive he attempted to achieve a relationship with his captors based on their common experience of adversity, learning Thai, teaching bridge and stealing food. The Will to Survive gives the reader a glimpse of the terrifying world of the PoW and includes pictures by another famous captive, Ronald Searle.