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Author: Stephen Harding Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 0306823411 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young US Navy lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of Strong's surviving crewmembers, scores went into the ocean as the once-proud warship sank beneath the waves--and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, a pre-war football star at the University of Alabama, went into the water as the vessel sank. Severely injured, Miller and several others survived three days at sea and eventually landed on a Japanese-occupied island. The survivors found fresh water and a few coconuts, but Miller, suffering from internal injuries and believing he was on the verge of death, ordered the others to go on without him. They reluctantly did do, believing, as Miller did, that he would be dead within hours. But Miller didn't die, and his health improved enough for him to begin searching for food. He also found the enemy--Japanese forces patrolling the island. Miller was determined to survive, and so launched a one-man war against the island's occupiers. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with many of the story's key participants, The Castaway's War is a rousing story of naval combat, bravery, and determination.
Author: Stephen Harding Publisher: Da Capo Press ISBN: 0306823411 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 320
Book Description
Shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, a young US Navy lieutenant waged a one-man war against the Japanese In the early hours of July 5, 1943, the destroyer USS Strong was hit by a Japanese torpedo. The powerful weapon broke the destroyer's back, killed dozens of sailors, and sparked raging fires. While accompanying ships were able to take off most of Strong's surviving crewmembers, scores went into the ocean as the once-proud warship sank beneath the waves--and a young officer's harrowing story of survival began. Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, a pre-war football star at the University of Alabama, went into the water as the vessel sank. Severely injured, Miller and several others survived three days at sea and eventually landed on a Japanese-occupied island. The survivors found fresh water and a few coconuts, but Miller, suffering from internal injuries and believing he was on the verge of death, ordered the others to go on without him. They reluctantly did do, believing, as Miller did, that he would be dead within hours. But Miller didn't die, and his health improved enough for him to begin searching for food. He also found the enemy--Japanese forces patrolling the island. Miller was determined to survive, and so launched a one-man war against the island's occupiers. Based on official American and Japanese histories, personal memoirs, and the author's exclusive interviews with many of the story's key participants, The Castaway's War is a rousing story of naval combat, bravery, and determination.
Author: Robert Adams Publisher: ISBN: 9781594263040 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 236
Book Description
A WHIRLWIND IN TIME It was a storm to end all storms, and when it was over Sebastian Foster and his five unexpected house guests--all refugees from the fury of the wind and rain--should have been happy just to be alive. But when the clouds finally cleared, the world outside Bass's home was no longer the twentieth-century America they all knew. Instead, through some bizarre twist in time, the six of them had ended up in England's past. But it was a past that never existed in any history book, a place where the Church was waging a holy war to depose Arthur III and make his nephew king of England and Wales. Thrust into this barbaric world of bloody combat, the time travelers were quick to realize that their modern weapons and knowledge could change the whole course of this England's future--and maybe help them find their way home again--if the warring factions didn't destroy them before they even had a chance to get started...
Author: Brian Jacques Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440621020 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 287
Book Description
Adrift in the Mediterranean, Ben and his loyal dog Ned-cursed by an avenging angel to roam the earth forever-fall into the clutches of a slaver, and have no one to rely on but each other in their quest for freedom.
Author: James C. Simmons Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc. ISBN: 9781574090666 Category : Castaways Languages : en Pages : 276
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Castaway in Paradise explores the reality in the myth through the exciting stories of castaways who, because of shipwrecks, perfidious sea captains, or their own choice, found themselves true-life Robinson Crusoes.
Author: John Steinberg Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9047407040 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 739
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The study uses recently declassified Russian and Japanese documents to re-examine the military, diplomatic, social, political, economic, and cultural history of the Russo-Japanese War. This research provides fascinating new information about the decline of Imperial Russian and the rise of Imperial Japan in the early 20th century.
Author: Bathroom Readers' Institute Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1667202537 Category : Humor Languages : en Pages : 580
Book Description
The 35th annual edition of Uncle John’s compendium features entertaining, informative, and amusing real-life stories from around the world. This 35th anniversary edition of Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader is bursting with everything you could possibly want to read in the throne room, including short articles for a quick trip and lengthier page-turners for an extended visit. Uncle John and his team at the Bathroom Readers’ Institute have once again gathered the most entertaining and amusing stories from the realms of pop culture, history, science, and sports (not to mention accounts of even more dumb crooks!) for your reading pleasure. In addition, there are plenty of laugh-out-loud lists, amusing quotes, and odd factoids that will delight the most ardent of trivia fans.
Author: Lawrence P. Treadwell Jr. Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1664131973 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 94
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The book is a UNIQUE movie film guide of seagoing and related films from 1930 to 2020. Included are four hundred Navy, Marine, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine movies of all genres - historical, classic, adventure, drama, comedy, musical, wartime productions from Hollywood and the U.K. Each film listed has its title alphabetically in order with the year distributed and the Distributor/Producer. Next are the Director, the Cast, and a Playbook. Films portray all types of ships big and small - liners, warships, submarines, freighters, yachts, sail, craft, fishing types, cutters. “ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND WAR!" Pirates, NAVY Seals, U-boats, shipwrecks, mutiny, sea battles, lifeboats, carriers, whalers, deserted islands : all and more are shown in these films, mostly in times past. The reference book is a must for all kinds of sailors and sea lovers to recall their favorites, and to learn about new movies they missed.
Author: Pablo Monforte Publisher: Dark Horse Comics ISBN: 1506727344 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 204
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Madrid in the eighties, and Barcelona ten years later. In these two vibrant locales, Castaways follows the relationship between Alejandra and Julio against the backdrop of these poetic urban spaces where dreams, love, and uncertainty intertwine. Drawn to one another but constantly pushed or pulled in different directions by work, family, and life, Alejandra and Julio circle in and out of each other's lives, while first denying and then coming to accept the fact that by the time they are ready to love one another, the chance has already passed. Intensely emotive and poignant, this stunning graphic novel from Laura Pérez and Pablo Monforte depicts themes of maturity, responsibility, and human connection. Available in English for the first time with translation by Silvia Perea Labayen.
Author: Stephen Harding
Author: Stephen Harding
Author: Stephen Harding
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Author: Pablo Monforte