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Taken Captive: A Japanese Pow's Story
ISBN: 9780471142850 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. "I do not know whether I dozed off or passed out, but the next thing I remember is gradually becoming aware of a blunt object striking my body over and over. Just as I realized it was a boot kicking me in the side, I felt my arm being grabbed roughly, and I returned to full consciousness.
"One GI had hold of my right arm, and another had his rifle pointed at me, nearly touching me. "'Don't move. We're taking you prisoner, ' the one with the rifle said." On January 25, 1945, Private Ooka Shohei of the Japanese Imperial Army was captured by American forces... "I do not know whether I dozed off or passed out, but the next thing I remember is gradually becoming aware of a blunt object striking my body over an...
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Fires on the Plain
ISBN: 9780313205675 / Angielski / Twarda / 1978 / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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Fires on the Plain
ISBN: 9780804813792 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." --The New York Times **Winner of the 1952 Yomiuri Prize** This haunting novel explores the complete degradation and isolation of a man by war. Fires on the Plain is set on the island of Leyte in the Philippines during World War II, where the Japanese army is disintegrating under the hammer blows of the American landings. Within this larger disintegration is another, that of a single human being, Private Tamura. The war destroys each of his ties to society,...
"Written with precise skill and beautifully controlled power. The translation by Ivan Morris is outstanding." --The New York Times **Win...
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72,08 zł |