[PDF] The Escapers eBook

Author : Caren B. Rubio
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 603 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1491738022

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Once I began to write, the words, the memories, the tears, the fears, the tastes, the sounds, all of it flooded back, overwhelming me. I couldnt stop writing. The more I wrote, the more I learned of my fathers activities, the more I wondered what it was about him that made it possible for him to escape the Holocaust when so many millions of others could not. What had made him different? What had shaped him, given him the courage, the bravura, the chutzpah, and most important of all, the foresight, the vision and the wisdom to save himself, my mother, and me from the Germans and, earlier, to defy the British and risk his own life to smuggle hundreds of Jews into Eretz Yisrael under the noses of the hated occupiers of the Land? And even earlier than that, when he lived in Berlin in the early 1920s, to understand that Hitler would soon become the greatest enemy the Jews, and the entire world, had ever known? I had to find out.

Author : Kermit M. Henry
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2012-03-23
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ISBN : 1468555413

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DECKLER'S CHRONICLES Trying to do the right things can get you killed. Detective Deckler finds his purpose as he and Michele fights to save city and country from terror and crime, in their unique way of removing the evil minded bad guys from the streets of Plainville USA. The author's ability to transcend the norms of writing and discovery, is displayed in each story and verse. Truly an interesting art. The author writes with clarity about the differences of man to man to world. Charlie's relationship to himself and his world is displayed by the author's unique dialogue and conversation, as Charles wanders through his compressed reality... POETIC THOUGHTS, is a resonance of verse and perspective of the rights and wrongs of a world going nowhere, the author uses his knowledge to show this distinctive reality

Author : Sean McConville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1147 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1000082741

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Irish Political Prisoners presents a detailed and gripping overview of political imprisonment from 1920-1962. Seán McConville examines the years from the formation of the Northern Ireland state to the release of the last border campaign prisoners in 1962. Drawing extensively and, in many cases, uniquely on archives and special collections in the three jurisdictions, and interviews with survivors from the period, McConville demonstrates how punishment came to embody and shape the nationalist consciousness. Irish Political Prisoners 1920-1962 commences with the legacy of the Anglo Irish and Irish Civil Wars - militancy, division and bitterness. The book travels from the embedding of Northern Ireland’s security agenda in the 1920’s, and the IRA’s search for a role in the 1930’s (including the 1939 bombing campaign against Britain) to the decisive use of internment during the war and the border campaign years. This volume will be an essential resource for students of Irish history and is a major contribution to the study of imprisonment. .

Author : B. Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2015-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 113744603X

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Between 1939 and 1945, over two hundred German and forty-five Allied servicemen were interned in neutral Ireland. They presented a series of extremely complex issues for the de Valera government, which strove to balance Ireland's international relationships with its obligations as a neutral.

Author : James Durney
Publisher : Mercier Press Ltd
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1781175896

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During the War of Independence, faced with an armed insurrection it couldn't stop, the British government introduced increasingly harsh penalties for suspected republicans, including internment without trial. This led to the incarceration of thousands of men in camps around the country, including the Rath and Hare Park Camps at the Curragh in County Kildare. Interned is the first book to tell the story of the men who were held in the Curragh internment camps, which housed republicans from all over Ireland. Faced with harsh conditions, unforgiving guards and inadequate and often inedible food, the prisoners maintained their defiance of the British regime and took whatever chances they could to defy their gaolers, including a number of escapes. The most audacious of these was in September 1921, during the Truce period, when sixty men escaped through a tunnel. This unique book is the first to investigate the Curragh Internment Camps, which housed thousands of republicans from all over Ireland. It contains a list of names and addresses of some 1,500 internees, which will be fascinating to their descendants and those interested in local history, as well as an exploration and details of the 1921 escape, which was one of the largest and most successful IRA escape in history.

Author : Cyril Cunningham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1990-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0850527678

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This is the most authoritative and comprehensive British account ever published of the brutal North Korean and Chinese mistreatment of British POWs during the Korean War.The author, a psychologist, was a Scientific Advisor to the POW Intelligence Organisation during the Korean War.He explains in detail how many prisonors were bribed, starved, flogged and tortured into informing on their compatriots and infiltrated into every prisoner group to sniff out potentional "progressives and reactionaries".

Author : Paul Simpson
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2013-07-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1472100247

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True stories of prison breaks including those of Frank Abagnale, whose story is told in Catch Me If You Can; Henri Charrière who claimed to have escaped from the supposedly inescapable Devil's Island - the true story as opposed to his questionable memoir, Papillon; Bud Day, said to be the only US serviceman ever to have escaped to South Vietnam; the six prisoners who escaped from Death Row in Mecklenburg Correctional Center; and Pascal Payeret, the French armed robber who escaped not once, but twice from French prisons with the help of a helicopter.

Author : Tim Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 28,29 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0762794208

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The Dodger is the story of John Bigelow "Johnny" Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood film The Great Escape. The American-born and well-connected Dodge was a cousin by marriage of Winston Churchill and friends with the rich and famous of both countries, including Kermit Roosevelt, President Theodore Roosevelt's son. When the Second World War broke out, he volunteered for the Army but was quickly captured after the debacle of Dunkirk. He became a prisoner of war and an inveterate escapologist and troublemaker - eventually becoming one of the ringleaders of the "Great Escape." Surviving the murderous Gestapo, he was thrown into a VIP compound of Sachsenhausen concentration camp on the orders of Heinrich Himmler - but escaped once more. After recapture, Johnny was spirited away by the SS to a meeting in Berlin with Hitler's interpreter, who sent him on a clandestine mission to his cousin in Downing Street. His odyssey through the dying embers of the Third Reich to Switzerland and freedom in the company of a louche apparatchik is the last curious escapade in the story of Johnny's adventurous life.

Author : Marisa Cordella
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 24,7 MB
Release : 2021-01-04
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3030600718

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This book explores the reality of ageing and old age from the perspectives of the individual and society. It emphasizes cross-cultural aspects of ageing and communication issues both within and across generations. The authors approach the understanding of ageing from a multi-disciplinary perspective, integrating biology, psychology, linguistics, sociology, and history. The book is organized as follows: historical and broader cross-cultural issues of ageing, followed by biomedical, psychological, social, and communicative aspects of ageing. The book concludes with an in-depth analysis of the existential dimension of ageing followed by an evolutionary perspective. ​

Author : J. P. Gallagher
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1586174096

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It has all the hallmarks of a best-selling fictional thriller: