Tulagi Hotel
Author: Heikki Hietala
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 9781907386121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For Jack McGuire, the war didn't end on VJ day
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Tulagi
Author: Clive Moore
Publisher: ANU Press
Published: 2019-09-24
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 1760463094
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Tulagi was the capital of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate between 1897 and 1942. The British withdrawal from the island during the Pacific War, its capture by the Japanese and the American reconquest left the island’s facilities damaged beyond repair. After the war, Britain moved the capital to the American military base on Guadalcanal, which became Honiara. The Tulagi settlement was an enclave of several small islands, the permanent population of which was never more than 600: 300 foreigners—one-third of European origin and most of the remainder Chinese—and an equivalent number of Solomon Islanders. Thousands of Solomon Islander males also passed through on their way to work on plantations and as boat crews, hospital patients and prisoners. The history of the Tulagi enclave provides an understanding of the origins of modern Solomon Islands. Tulagi was also a significant outpost of the British Empire in the Pacific, which enables a close analysis of race, sex and class and the process of British colonisation and government in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Hell's Kitchen Tulagi 1942-1943
Author: Thomas J. Larson
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2003-05-07
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 059527756X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He survived Pearl Harbor. He survived Tulagi. He survived the wilds of Africa and the steaming jungles of Central America. This is just one chapter from the extraordinary life of Thomas J. Larson. Ensign "Swede" Larson arrived at Pearl Harbor on December 5th, 1941. He was Executive Officer on YP 109 (Yacht Patrol) through a great storm from Long Beach, California. He was transferred to CinCPac staff, and on December 7th, 1941, was delivering messages to Admiral Kimmel and his staff when Pearl Harbor was attacked. He served with Admiral Chester Nimitz until July 1942, then was assigned to Admiral Ghormley's ComSoPac staff in New Caledonia. On November 30th, he was flown to Guadalcanal, and then next day went to Tulagi as a communicator. He ended the war on the USS Lexington aircraft carrier going into Tokyo Bay in late August of 1945. His peace time career was as an explorer, and professor of Anthropology with many years of field research in Africa. He has degrees from UC Berkeley, MA American U, M Litt Oxford, PhD University of Virginia.
Tulagi Hotel
Author: Heikki Hietala
Publisher:
Published: 2012-10
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781908824165
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The location is beautiful, the hotel well worth a visit, and the lives of the guests are intriguing... A great read." - Historical Novels Review (May 2011) "This is a thoroughly enjoyable read and a 'must' for any fan of military aviation." - M Howard Morgan, author of 'First Fleet' "Beyond the technical details lies a wonderful story with beautifully written characters full of personality and charm." - Raven Dane "Adventure, excitement, tragedy, romance and engaging characters, this novel has it all." - Susanne O'Leary, author of Fresh Powder *** The War is over, but for Marine pilot Jack McGuire, it's only just begun. Unable to adjust to post-war life, he buys a surplus Navy seaplane and heads for the South Pacific, where he sets up a colonial-style hotel on the island he used to fight over. But his past soon catches up with him. A parade of war veterans float through the hotel, sending Jack hurtling back into dogfights over the Solomon Islands, as the story of his wartime life unfolds. Then, out of the Pacific blue, he sees the widow of his former wingman Don Wheeler, who was shot down in action. No-one even knew that womanizing fighter pilot Don had a wife, and her arrival in Jack's life changes everything. Tulagi Hotel is a gripping tale that weaves the protagonist's war-torn past with his equally turbulent present.
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Out in the Boondocks: Marines in Action in the Pacific
Author: James D. Horan
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2016-10-27
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1787202453
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Here, in heart-stopping human detail, are twenty-one personal accounts from these men—stories told by the men themselves. They are the stories of men who have lived in hell and lived to tell of it. Here is Sgt. Albert Schmid who was awarded the Navy Cross for his single-handed destruction of a flanking attack, during which he accounted for 200 Japs on Guadalcanal. Here is Private Nicolli who was literally blown into the air like a matchstick and then, with a piece of shrapnel in his chest, helped a wounded comrade to the rear. Here is the story of a Marine gunner in a Navy dive-bomber, and the story of “the luckiest Marine in the Solomons” whose tonsils were neatly eliminated by a Jap sniper, and many others. If you want to know how our boys are taking this war, if you want the complete stories behind the headlines from the Pacific, this should be your book. Your blood will run faster as you, yourself, spend memorable days and nights “out in the boondocks.”
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Secondhand Warriors - books 1, 2, & 3
Author: Joe Greer
Publisher: Distributed Sensing Solutions LLC
Published: 2024-05-01
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The first three books of the Secondhand Warriors series combined for a discount. ‘To serve America’ was their siren call. When soldiers were wounded and pushed aside by the military, a mysterious Command gave them a second chance. College students, Mack and Bernice, weren't asked if they wanted a first chance. They were drafted. Some things never change. Laws are scoffed across oceans and continents by this collection of badass people shielding America from its enemies with no holds barred. One man’s criminal is another man’s patriot. But there have always been some who are just criminals. Warning to the mild-mannered; F-words and some steamy scenes.
Postcolonial Past & Present
Author: Anne Collett
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9004376542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Postcolonial Past & Present twelve outstanding scholars look to those spaces Epeli Hau’ofa has insisted are full not empty to analyse the ways artists and intellectuals in the postcolonial world make sense of turbulent local and global forces.
