One Fourteenth Of An Elephant
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Author | : Ian Denys Peek |
Publisher | : Doubleday UK |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
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In February 1942, Singapore fell to the Japanese. Denys Peek and his brother were just two of tens of thousands of British and Commonwealth soldiers and citizens taken prisoner. Six months later, he and his comrades were packed into steel goods wagons and transported by rail to Siam. They were to become part of the slave labour force destined for the massive construction project that would later become infamous as the Burma Thailand Railway. He would spend the next three years in over fifteen different work and 'hospital' camps on the railway, stubbornly refusing to give in and die in a place where over 20,000 prisoners of war and uncounted slave labourers met their deaths. Narrated in the present tense and written with clarity, passion and a remarkable eye for detail, Denys Peek has vividly recreated not just the hardships and horrors of the railway and the daily struggle for survival but also the comradeship, spirit and humour of the men who worked on it.
Author | : Jacob Shell |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-06-11 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0393247775 |
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“No one who loves elephants or how humans interact with wildlife should pass up Jacob Shell’s remarkable book.” —Dan Flores, author of Coyote America Giants of the Monsoon Forest journeys deep into the mountainous rainforests of Burma and India to explore the world of teak logging elephants and their intriguing alliance with humans. Jacob Shell’s narrative vividly depicts elephants’ extraordinary intelligence, and the complicated bond with individual human riders, a partnership that can last for decades. Giants of the Monsoon Forest reveals an unexpected relationship between evolution in the natural world and political struggles in the human one, while considering how Asia’s secret forest culture might offer a way to help protect the fragile spaces both elephants and humans need to survive.
Author | : John M. Kistler |
Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2007-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780803260047 |
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Elephants have fought in human armies for more than three thousand years. This is the largely forgotten tale of the credit they deserve and the sacrifices they endured.
Author | : Michael Charney |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2018-12-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047406923 |
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This study offers a comprehensive look at warfare -- its meaning, culture, technology, tactics, and organization -- in an area of the world previously neglected by military historians.
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