Surviving the Sword

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This is a fascinating story of courage (both moral and physical) and of survival - this book demonstrates the resilience of the human spirit, and the strength and determination of these remarkable men, only some of whom survived the war, against the most appalling odds and despite the horiffic/5.

Surviving the Sword gives voice to these tens of thousands of Allied POWs and offers us a powerful reminder of the terror and depravations of war and the resilience of the human spirit. In this important book, Brian MacArthur draws on the diaries of American, British, Dutch, and Australian Fepows (Far Eastern prisoners of war), some of whose recollections are published here for the first by: 3.

Based on the contemporary diaries of more than prisoners, diaries kept in secret, some of them buried and re-buried after each entry made, SURVIVING THE SWORD reconstructs a world of contradictions, a world in which cruelty was matched by compassion, infighting by camaraderie, people hurting each other by people helping each other, ignorance by by: 3.

Based on the contemporary diaries of more than prisoners, diaries kept in secret, some of them buried and re-buried after each entry made, SURVIVING THE SWORD reconstructs a world of contradictions, a world in which cruelty was matched by compassion, infighting by camaraderie, people hurting each other by people helping each other, ignorance by ingenuity/5(3).

Surviving the Sword gives voice to these tens of thousands of Allied POWs and offers us a powerful reminder of the terror and depravations of war and the resilience of the human spirit. In this. The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners drawn on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that solidarity, friendship and kindness.

Category: Prisoners of war Surviving The Sword Prisoners Of The Japanese Surviving The Sword features the POWs in their own words and drawings. The prisoners of the Japanese in the Second World War are often forgotten; for most Britons, the war ended in May As we approach the sixtieth anniversary of Japan's surrender in August and as the surviving Far East prisoners of war (FEPOWs) enter their eighties and nineties, it is time their story was told.

"In her debut memoir, Surviving the Survivors, author Ruth Klein, with both tenderness and candor delves deeply into her family’s dark and horrifying past as victims of the Holocaust.

Though some miraculously survive, despite the unimaginable, like Klein, each must bear witness to /5(19). The plot of the entire series revolves around the finding, acquiring, stealing, using, and eventually destroying of the Swords.

By the end of the last book in the series (Shieldbreaker's Story) all the swords except Woundhealer have been destroyed. Townsaver and Doomgiver are destroyed in The Third Book of Swords by Vulcan wielding Shieldbreaker. Eight more are destroyed by Shieldbreaker in the Lost. The silver sword is a symbol of a number of things in the novel.

Primarily, it is a symbol of hope: hope that Joseph will find his children again and that they are alive; and, to the children, it is a symbol of their father being alive, and of the.

Surviving the sword: prisoners of the Japanese in the Far East, by MacArthur, BrianPages:   Sisters of the Sword By Maya Snow Fictional/ Historical Fiction The protagonist is an aristocrat girl by the name of Kimi who always wanted to be a samurai like her father and like her brothers would be.

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The diaries and interviews with surviving prisoners drawn on in SURVIVING THE SWORD will tell a new generation about that solidarity, friendship and kindness.

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group ISBN: Number of pages: Weight: g 4/5(1). Surviving the Death Railway’s combination of first-hand account, correspondence and comment provide a unique insight into the long nightmare experienced by those in the Far East and at home.

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Surviving The Sword: Prisoners of the Japanese Paperback – 2 Feb. by Brian MacArthur (Author)/5(56). Description The Sword of the Apocalypse By: Phillip Giarraputo & Phillip L. Giarraputo III About the Book The Sword of the Apocalypse is a unique twist on the end of the world, with a fantasy component, including the sword and the quest to retrieve it, all leading up to the final battle of good /5.xvi, pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: 20 cm.

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