8 MIRACULOUS MONTHS IN THE MALAYAN JUNGLE

Author: Donald J. "DJ" Humphrey II
Publisher: Djh Incorporated
ISBN: 9781735845111
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238

Book Description
It is some story - so fantastic you probably won't believe it. But it really happened.Lt. Col. Donald J. HumphreyMy father's quotation above is from a press release by the Associated Press and printed in the Iowa Postville Herald on September 12, 1945. World War II had just ended, and my father was in Singapore. The press wanted to know what happened to him in the Malay jungle for the past eight months.This book tells that story. My father wrote the original manuscript when he was in his 20s. I remember seeing it when I was a young kid-8 x 10 pages with a thick black paper cover. He always wanted someone to write it better and make it into a published book, but he never found the right person to do it. Then time ran out on him. I decided to dust it off and turn it into a book that would take the reader into the realities of World War II and at the same time tell my father's story of faith, courage, and bravery. I wrote this book for my father who hopefully is looking down with an approving smile. I also wrote it for my father's family and friends. But actually, I wrote this book for everybody-a fascinating first-person account of a B-29 bomber pilot and an inside look at an extremely important part of history. A 26-year-old Major in the Twentieth Air Force, 468th Bombardment Group of the United States Army Air Force during World War II. Former B-17 and B-29 flight instructor, veteran of 17 prior bombing missions, and Commander of the 793rd B-29 Superfortress Squadron flying out of the U.S. Army Air Force base at Kharagpur, India. Pilot of B-29 No. 42-24704, the Postville Express.On January 11, 1945, Major Donald J. Humphrey had his B-29 Superfortress directed at Singapore Island. After navigating the 1900-mile trip from India through dangerous weather, they had just successfully bombed their target. And that's when Japanese Zeroes shot off the wing and sent the mighty aircraft death-spiraling down into the Malay jungle.

My War, My Life

Author: K. Sophie Stallman
Publisher: Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN: 1626522537
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 408

Book Description
Three generations ago, author Sophie Stallman was a young girl living a normal and happy existence with her traditional and privileged Polish family. But when the Germans invaded Poland on September 1, 1939, Sophie's life as she knew it would cease to exist. Under Nazi-occupied Poland, Sophie and her family were forced to endure a daily life of deprivation, fear, and struggle, but despite the abysmal war conditions to which she was subjected, Sophie was determined to pursue her own life in spite of the war. Pressing forward with her academic education and following her love of music she excelled developing her modern dance talents and mezzo-soprano voice. Sophie also made the courageous decision to join the Polish resistance organization -- a move that would put her life in constant jeopardy, especially during the 1944 Warsaw uprising.

Skeletons on the Zahara

Author: Dean King
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759509697
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 351

Book Description
b.A masterpiece of historical adventure, ISkeletons on the Zahara The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ship's captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival.

A Journey to the World: Reminiscences and Moments

Author: Don Harris Oben
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1984559303
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 470

Book Description
This is about the fascinating stories that the author’s father told him when he was a little boy and of his travels during his employment in Nigeria, which invoked in him a burning desire to undertake his own journey to broaden his horizons. It is a journey during which the author experienced the good, the bad, and the ugly in human behavior and character. This book is an honest and captivating story of that journey, penned with the style of an experienced writer and publisher.

VOLT Ink.

Author: Bryan Voltaggio
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1616281618
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 337

Book Description
The winner and runner up of Bravo TV's Top Chef Season 6 offer personal stories and 80 recipes that draw on raw ingredients. 25,000 first printing.

Left For Dead

Author: Ricky Megee
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
ISBN: 1741769396
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282

Book Description
Gripping and inspiring story of how one man endured almost three months alone in the desert living on nothing but insects and frogs. An extraordinary story of survival in the outback.

God's Hostage

Author: Andrew Brunson
Publisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1493421611
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
In 1993, Andrew Brunson was asked to travel to Turkey, the largest unevangelized country in the world, to serve as a missionary. Though hesitant because of the daunting and dangerous task that lay ahead, Andrew and his wife, Norine, believed this was God's plan for them. What followed was a string of threats and attacks, but also successes in starting new churches in a place where many people had never met a Christian. As their work with refugees from Syria, including Kurds, gained attention and suspicion, Andrew and Norine acknowledged the threat but accepted the risk, determining to stay unless God told them to leave. In 2016, they were arrested. Though the State eventually released Norine, who remained in Turkey, Andrew was imprisoned. Accused of being a spy and being among the plotters of the attempted coup, he became a political pawn whose story soon became known around the world. God's Hostage is the incredible true story of his imprisonment, his brokenness, and his eventual freedom. Anyone with a heart for missions, especially to the Muslim world, will love this tension-laden and faith-laced book.

How the Man in Green Saved Pahang, and Possibly the World

Author: Joshua Kam
Publisher: Epigram Books
ISBN: 9814901059
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303

Book Description
Winner of the 2020 Epigram Books Fiction Prize When a renegade prophet vanishes in a cloud of pigeons in Kuala Lumpur, chorister and first witness Gabriel finds himself press-ganged into a wild road trip down the Malaysian coast. Meanwhile, in a sleepy town by the sea, Lydia traces the links between her late grandaunt’s eccentric lover and her involvement in the Communist Emergency. As Lydia and Gabriel enter a shadowy mythology of serpents, Sufi saints and plainclothes gods, they must grapple with the theologies and histories they once trusted, in a country more perilously punk than they’d ever conceived of. Reader Reviews: "A dizzying tale of saints, heists, maybe-queens." —The Straits Times "Quite the debut, accomplished, deft, unabashed and exuberant." —Asian Review of Books "Author Joshua Kam’s debut book brings Asian mythology to the forefront." —The Sun Daily Malaysian author blurs myths and truths as you escape on a wild road trip ... This whimsical, rollercoaster ride of a book also carries a tale of old and new Malaysia colliding, with various figures from local history, politics and folklore coming together in an epic quest for the soul of the nation. —newsday24.com "In essence, (the novel) acts as a love letter to Malaysian folklore and history, showcasing an impressive degree of representation and imagination that never feels shoehorned into the narrative." —Bakchormeeboy "What a trip! This 21st-century adventure quest with an Islamic saint also brings us on a madcap tour through a multitude of Malaysian mythologies— Malay epics, Taoist pantheons, WW2/Emergency/Merdeka heroics, and more. Even more vitally, it gives us hope amidst the dire news of our era— political corruption, environmental devastation and bigotry—reassuring us that the human/divine spirit still flourishes in the late-capitalist tropics, and is ultimately destined to triumph over evil. An absolute delight, and truly, deliciously Malaysian.” —Ng Yi-Sheng, award-winning author of Lion City “Borgesian, even Manichean in spirit, with almost reverent borrowings from Nusantara mythologies to Abrahamic religiosity, this novel is a wild ride from start to finish, riffing on Malayan history, politics and folklore in a surprisingly redemptive arc, while remaining deeply interrogative about what it means to keep true to goodness in the ever-changing face of evil.” —Cyril Wong, two-time Singapore Literature Prize-winning author of This Side of Heaven

The Malay Archipelago

Author: Alfred Russel Wallace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 576

Book Description

The Expendable

Author: John Lewis Floyd
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734542103
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510

Book Description
A gripping, true story of one sailor's struggle to survive the opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. When the U.S. Fleet flees to the safety of Allied waters, Charles Beckner, a young Navy Corpsman is left behind, trapped on Bataan with no apparent avenue for escape.