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Sorties into Hell - The Hidden War on Chichi Jima (Hardcover, New): Chester G Hearn Sorties into Hell - The Hidden War on Chichi Jima (Hardcover, New)
Chester G Hearn
R2,050 Discovery Miles 20 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In October 1946, Colonel Presley Rixey arrived by destroyer at Chichi Jima to repatriate 22,000 Japanese who had been bypassed during the war in the Pacific. While waiting for a Marine battalion to arrive, the colonel met daily with a Japanese commission assigned to assist him. When asked what had happened to American prisoners on the island, the Japanese hatched a story to hide the atrocities that they had committed. In truth, the downed flyers had been captured, executed, and eaten by certain senior Japanese officers. This is the story of the investigation, the cover-up, and the last hours of those Americans who disappeared into war's wilderness and whose remains were distributed to the cooking galleys of Chichi Jima. Rixey's suspicion of a cover-up was later substantiated by a group of Americans returning from Japan who had lived on Chichi Jima for generations. It would take five months of gathering testimony to uncover all the details. Thirty war criminals were eventually tried at Guam in 1947, five of whom met their fate on the gallows.

Bacteriology in British India, 22 - Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (Hardcover, New): Pratik Chakrabarti Bacteriology in British India, 22 - Laboratory Medicine and the Tropics (Hardcover, New)
Pratik Chakrabarti
R3,016 Discovery Miles 30 160 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

During the nineteenth century, European scientists and physicians considered the tropics the natural home of pathogens. Hot and miasmic, the tropical world was the locus of disease, for Euopeans the great enemy of civilization. In the late nineteenth century when bacteriological laboratories and institutions were introduced to British India, they were therefore as much an imperial mission to cleanse and civilize a tropical colony as a medical one to eradicate disease. Bacteriology offered a panacea in colonial India, a way by which the multifarious political, social, environmental, and medical problems and anxieties, intrinsically linked to its diseases, could have a single resolution. Bacteriology in British India is the first book to provide a social and cultural history of bacteriology in colonial India, situating it within the confluence of advances in germ theory, Pastuerian vaccines, colonial medicine, laboratory science, and British imperialism. It recounts the genesis of bacteriology and laboratory medicine in India through a complex history of conflict and alignment between Pasteurism and British imperial medicine. By investigating an array of laboratory notes, medical literature, and literary sources, the volume links colonial medical research with issues of poverty, race, nationalism, and imperial attitudes toward tropical climate and wildlife, contributing to a wide field of scholarship like the history of science and medicine, sociology of science, and cultural history. Pratik Chakrabarti is Chair in History of Science and Medicine, University of Manchester.

China and the Chinese - Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufacturers: the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade: With a... China and the Chinese - Their Religion, Character, Customs, and Manufacturers: the Evils Arising from the Opium Trade: With a Glance at Our Religious, Moral, Political and Commercial Intercourse With the Country (Paperback)
Henry Charles Sirr
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
British Rule in India - a Historical Sketch (Paperback): Harriet Martineau British Rule in India - a Historical Sketch (Paperback)
Harriet Martineau
R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay, by the English East India Company, and of ... the War With... An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay, by the English East India Company, and of ... the War With the Mahratta Nation (Paperback)
Samuel Pechel
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Yedo and Peking - a Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China (Paperback): Robert Fortune Yedo and Peking - a Narrative of a Journey to the Capitals of Japan and China (Paperback)
Robert Fortune
R675 Discovery Miles 6 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Lives of Mahomet and His Successors (Paperback): Washington Irving Lives of Mahomet and His Successors (Paperback)
Washington Irving
R678 Discovery Miles 6 780 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Travels in Arabia - Comprehending an Account of Those Territories in Hadjaz Which the Mohammedans Regard as Sacred (Paperback):... Travels in Arabia - Comprehending an Account of Those Territories in Hadjaz Which the Mohammedans Regard as Sacred (Paperback)
John Lewis Burckhardt
R640 Discovery Miles 6 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan, and... An Account of an Embassy to the Court of the Teshoo Lama in Tibet - Containing a Narrative of a Journey Through Bootan, and Part of Tibet (Paperback)
Samuel Turner
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
British Rule and British Christianity in India (Paperback): Joseph Kingsmill British Rule and British Christianity in India (Paperback)
Joseph Kingsmill
R567 Discovery Miles 5 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The English Governess at the Siamese Court (Paperback): Anna Harriette Leonowens The English Governess at the Siamese Court (Paperback)
Anna Harriette Leonowens
R600 Discovery Miles 6 000 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Oude Question" Stated and Considered - With References to Published Official Documents" (Paperback): William P. Hale The Oude Question" Stated and Considered - With References to Published Official Documents" (Paperback)
William P. Hale
R358 Discovery Miles 3 580 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Works - Collated With All the Former Editions, and Corrected With Notes Critical and Explanatory (Paperback): Ben Jonson Works - Collated With All the Former Editions, and Corrected With Notes Critical and Explanatory (Paperback)
Ben Jonson
R641 Discovery Miles 6 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palaeographic, of the Late James Prinsep - to Which Are Added His... Essays on Indian Antiquities, Historic, Numismatic, and Palaeographic, of the Late James Prinsep - to Which Are Added His Useful Tables, Illustrative of Indian History, Chronology, Modern Coinages, Weights, Measures, Etc (Paperback)
James Prinsep
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
India Through the Stereoscope - a Journey Through Hindustan (Paperback): James Ricalton India Through the Stereoscope - a Journey Through Hindustan (Paperback)
James Ricalton
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Life Among the Chinese - With Characteristic Sketches and Incidents of Missionary Operations Anmd Prospects in China... Life Among the Chinese - With Characteristic Sketches and Incidents of Missionary Operations Anmd Prospects in China (Paperback)
R S. Maclay
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Researches and Missionary Labours Among the Jews, Mohammedans, and Other Sects (Paperback): Joseph Wolff Researches and Missionary Labours Among the Jews, Mohammedans, and Other Sects (Paperback)
Joseph Wolff
R715 Discovery Miles 7 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Damascus and Palmyra - a Journey to the East (Paperback): Charles Greenstreet Addison Damascus and Palmyra - a Journey to the East (Paperback)
Charles Greenstreet Addison
R524 Discovery Miles 5 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings (Paperback): Francis Rawdon-Hastings The Private Journal of the Marquess of Hastings (Paperback)
Francis Rawdon-Hastings
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Turkey and Its Destiny (Paperback): Charles MacFarlane Turkey and Its Destiny (Paperback)
Charles MacFarlane
R750 Discovery Miles 7 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The History of the British Empire in India (Paperback): Edward Thornton The History of the British Empire in India (Paperback)
Edward Thornton
R864 Discovery Miles 8 640 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback): Philipp Franz Von Siebold Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the Nineteenth Century (Paperback)
Philipp Franz Von Siebold
R639 Discovery Miles 6 390 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
An Easy Introduction to the History and Geography of Bengal - for the Junior Classes in Schools (Paperback): Ebenezer Lethbridge An Easy Introduction to the History and Geography of Bengal - for the Junior Classes in Schools (Paperback)
Ebenezer Lethbridge
R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
History of Genghis Khan (Paperback): Jacob Abbott History of Genghis Khan (Paperback)
Jacob Abbott
R565 Discovery Miles 5 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Sepoy Revolt - Its Causes and Its Consequences (Paperback): Henry Mead The Sepoy Revolt - Its Causes and Its Consequences (Paperback)
Henry Mead
R603 Discovery Miles 6 030 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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