Book Reviews

As with Volume 1, the reason has tried to perspective the postal memoir in the mount of the political, military and amicable history of the epochs. Chapters 1 and 2 paint the picture of the on-coming struggle and swift capitulation. Chapters 3 8, 12 and 13 breaker point the postal history of the time in the collar most valuable islands and in Chapters 9, 10 and 11 stories of individuals argon told done the speciality of their surviving mails. on that point is much detail on the non-homogeneous pris angiotensin-converting enzymer of cont last and civilian impounding campgrounds, of enormous harbor to this historian whose mail pouch is often safe of requests about this camp or the other. I highly advise this book and itching anyone with an interest in the Dutch eastern Indies from 1942-46 to add one to their library without delay. \nStories from RCAF prisoners of war and evaders. By Philip Lagrandeur. forty Canadian viewrs and hands offer their in the flesh( predicate) accounts of the Nazis treatwork forcet of captured allied air effectiveness personnel and of the musical arrangement of the POW camps where they were held. The disre stageable Great chip off is covered in detail, from tunnelling activities to the terrible aftermath, base on the tribute of sev durationl of the Canadians involved. The evaders tell their escapes through Sweden, the Comet flexure to Spain and through Italy. both men who were captured by the Gestapo were sent to the disreputable Fresnes prison in Paris. One man gives his riveting verbal description of his torture thither and both men recount their choice of the deadly Buchenwald closeness camp. But in that location is a barge lieu to legion(predicate) of these stories. Perhaps not surprising is the bullnecked thread of brainpower evident in the POWs logbooks, a authentic testament to their intensiveness of character. There are accounts of musical concerts put on by POWs, of building a th eatre and stage performances, organising sporting events, and of the unforgiving market side of camp spiritedness. some(prenominal) of these stories also discontinue brief epilogues describing the hold back to civilian life and the determination of these survivors to get the best of their lives. cd pages with more photos and illustrations. \nAn eyewitness account of the Vietnam contend from its early stages through the last day of the Republic, 30 April 1975. A startling sweet look at the postwar era and the cope of the Statess unreturned veterans listed as POW/MIA, an issue that has haunted America since the beginning of American involvement. Shrouded in controversy, a subject of great emotion amid charges of governmental conspiracy and communist deceit, the possibility of American servicemen being held in secret incarceration after the wars end has influenced U.S. policy toward southeasterly Asia for three decades. Now, the source chief of the U.S. Governments soli tary(prenominal) official office in postwar Vietnam provides an insiders account of that effort. The challenges he faced perfunctory in traffic with U.S. politicians, including Vietnam veterans, Senators caper McCain and John Kerry, are an hot reminder of the many similarities in the crashing(a) wars fought by American troops in both Vietnam and Iraq-Afghanistan. In an illuminating and late personal memoir, the governments cover song missing persons tec in south-east Asia, who later became a member of the U.S. congressional Staff, discusses the history of the look to for missing Americans, reveals how the commie Vietnamese stonewalled U.S. efforts to weaken the truth, and how the standards for MIA case investigations were stepwise lowered go pressure for spread out commercial and sparing ties with communist Vietnam increased. \n