Tag: Sorrow

The Shame and the Sorrow Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland


Free Download Donna Merwick, "The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0812222725 | EPUB | pages: 344 | 3.3 mb
The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan Island, but they did; they did not intend to help destroy native cultures, but they did; they intended to be overseas the tolerant, pluralistic, and antimilitaristic people they thought themselves to be-and in so many respects were-at home, but they were not.

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The Path of Infinite Sorrow The Japanese on the Kokoda Track


Free Download The Path of Infinite Sorrow: The Japanese on the Kokoda Track By Craig Collie, Hajime Marutani
2012 | 324 Pages | ISBN: 174237591X | PDF | 15 MB
The story of the bloody Kokoda campaign, told through the personal experiences of the Japanese soldiersWe were all skin and bone, as if our stomachs were stuck to the inside wall of our back.The Australian story of Kokoda has been told often from the perspective of the Australians. Now, for the first time ever, the full Japanese story of Kokoda is told, a poignant tale of comradeship and heartrending suffering. This is a very human story of the other side, told through the eyes of Japanese soldiers who were there. It draws from a range of firsthand sources-interviews with survivors, diaries that soldiers left behind, memoirs written after the war, and what has survived of the records of the Japanese military. Full of painful recollections and startling wartime revelations, this is the lesser-known story of a tragic battle that continues to haunt survivors from both sides.

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Forget Sorrow An Ancestral Tale


Free Download Belle Yang, "Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale"
English | 2010 | pages: 256 | ISBN: 039306834X, 0393339963 | EPUB | 76,2 mb
Celebrated artist and writer Belle Yang makes a stunning debut as a graphic memoirist with this story of crisis and survival.

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