Prince of Pleasure and His Regency, 1811-20

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the prince of pleasure and his regency

Prince of Pleasure and His Regency, 1811-20
J.B. Priestley
Manufacturer: William Heinemann
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A Fascinating Omnium Gatherum.......2005-07-24

If this book has flaws (for what it attempts to be), one lies with the author and one with the publisher.

The writer is too much of his time, a bit obsessed with judging all the people as to whether they were "truly female" or "real men," whether they were properly mature or "giant children." That, and to cover his vast subject (the entirety of England of note and commonality both, not just the Regent and the ton), for people he often relies too heavily on 'The Dictionary of National Biography', taking its fourth-hand judgements rather too seriously beyond the mere facts of birth, death, marriage and offspring. His bibliography lists better books, which he might have paid more attention to.

Yes, I read the text as well as looked at the pictures, which are sometimes three per page. This is the other problem. To cram this many on in the wide borders results in them often being tiny and dark, so that any detail, sometimes any sense or image, is lost. In many cases, items with captions or speech balloons are unreadable. This is the publisher's fault: they could have either reduced the number of illustrations, making more of them valuable rather than blobby, or they could have allowed more pages and put less text per page around larger images.

That done with, if the subject interests you, I can't recommend this too highly. The pictures that are visible are a valuable cross selection, like a box full of snapshots of everywhere: machinery, grand houses, frost fairs on the Thames, bridges, furniture, mail coaches in thunderstorms, and a constant stream of portraits. If you have been studying this period a while, finally seeing the faces of the names often mentioned adds a whole level of illumination.

As well, the text is marvelously informative on a vast number of subjects. Organization year by year helps the reader see when different influences struck, rather than making it difficult to co-ordinate the war, home politics, and shifts in the arts because they're in separate chapters. Yes, sometimes he does stop to give background on an item only in this year first really important, or move forward to sum up the future of someone he means to not bring up again (and not leave the reader hanging and wondering). It's done very smoothly.

It's a good book to read cover to cover, yet one can then keep it at chairside and dip into it anywhere for a few minutes of entertainment and education. All in all, both a fun book and a good book, a combination rarely found.

the prince of pleasure and his regency.......2000-04-07

A wonderfully detailed and readable account of the Regency era (1811-1820) and its focal point--Prince George IV. The author ably explores,within the context of the eras mores and singular fashion, the lives of its most celebrated and scandalous figures. The author also recounts the events of the Napoleaonic Wars taking place at the time in an interesting and relevant fashion. All in all, I found this book to be a very easy and enjoyable read with just enough history and gossip to keep you moving right along. If you are interested in the era, I would also recommend The Regency Companion, an enjoyable and detailed reference work of the time.

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This is a simply wonderful book!

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J. B Priestley
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This is a simply wonderful book!.......1999-07-12

I have discovered a first edition of this book. There are so many lovely short articles which are a true delight to read. I have discovered JBP very late in my life, he was a friend of my uncle, the artist Fred Lawson of Castle Bolton, Wensleydale, one of the first Wensleydale Group of artists in the early 1900's. His daughter is Sonai Lawson RA. If anyone would like to request details of one of JBP's short articles please contact me.

My Six Favorite Plays: Dangerous Corner, Eden End, Time and the Conways, and Inspector Calls, the Linden Tree, When We Were Married

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My Six Favorite Plays: Dangerous Corner, Eden End, Time and the Conways, and Inspector Calls, the Linden Tree, When We Were Married
J. B. Priestley
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A Priceless Allegory
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An Inspector Calls.
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GCSE study.......2003-10-02

goodness! having just written up my essay on an inspector calls, i have found these reviews! a little late, but better late than never. the review pages are fab, thanx amazon. an inspector calls is set in the industrial revolution about a family who all, without knowing it, participate to a young girl's death. but there are lots of twists and turns to be exposed! enjoy it xmelx

A Priceless Allegory.......2001-12-29

J.B. Priestley's classic drama "An Inspector Calls" has a sturdy allegorical ring that reminds me of another great British author's work, "A Pilgrim's Progress" by John Bunyan. The Birling family, prominent society figures of Brunley, a North Midlands town, are celebrating the engagement of their daughter Sheila to the son of a prominent local family when a man calling himself Inspector Goole arrives unannounced.

Whatever triumphal joy they earlier felt is soon washed away as the Inspector informs them that a young woman by the name of Eva Smith has just died in the local infirmary, a painful suicide victim prompted by taking disinfectant. Gradually he draws everyone in the household into the picture. All are implicated in the tragic downfall leading to Eva's suicide. Mr. Birling fired her after she was a leader in a strike at his factory, resulting from her asking for a fair weekly wage. His daugher Sheila caused a dismissal from Eva's next job at a department store in a jealous rage over the young woman's good looks. Sheila's husband to be Gerald found a room for her temporarily, had an affair with her, then let her go. Eric Birling, Sheila's brother, impregnated her, after which she sought help from the charity committee headed by Mrs. Birling, who coldly spurned her.

The only two members of the Birling household who feel appropriately contrite are Eric and Sheila. When it appears that the incident might be a hoax the others are relieved, ignoring their abominable behavior toward the girl.

Just when it appears that they might all be in the clear, and it is learned that the mysterious Inspector Goole was no more than an apparition or hoax of some kind, a call is received that a girl has indeed died in the infirmary from ingesting disinfectant and that an Inspector is on his way to question the Birling family! And at a time when Mr. Birling expects to be offered a knighthood, no less!

The dialogue is crisp and the mysterious Inspector Goole forces the family to look for once beyond their own selfish interests and contemplate the tragic consequences of conduct stemming from their ruthless mindset. "An Inspector Calls" reads brilliantly and plays mesmerizingly until the final curtain. It has been playing for better than a decade at London's West End, where I have seen it 3 times and intend to see it more times in the future. Its timeless message remains as vital now as when it premiered starring Alec Guinness and Ralph Richardson in 1946.

Inspector calls.......2001-07-04

I am currently studying this book at school and am thourly enjoying it it is a great book and as i am doing an essay on it i thought im would come and get some review on it this has helped me a lot and thanx to Amazon[.com]

Not a typical murder story........2001-05-27

I really liked this book.

If you didn't study this play for G.C.S.E'S you missed out.......2001-02-07

An Inspector Calls is a play for the thinkers in our world.Who love to ponder on the actions and consquences of every person. This book is clever, mysterious and thought provoking. Anyone who reads it will be captured by the Inspector and his inquiry into the death of the character Eva Smith! This makes you think (if only for the few hours after reading it) of your own actions and there possible consquences in life and perhaps of the better world we could live in IF we only went through life constantly thinking of others!

ENGLISH JOURNEY: BEING A RAMBLING BUT TRUTHFUL ACCOUNT OF WHAT ONE MAN SAW ANS HEARD AND FELT THROUGH ENGLAND DURING AUTUMN OF THE YEAR 1933.

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ENGLISH JOURNEY: BEING A RAMBLING BUT TRUTHFUL ACCOUNT OF WHAT ONE MAN SAW ANS HEARD AND FELT THROUGH ENGLAND DURING AUTUMN OF THE YEAR 1933.

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J. B. Priestley's travelog of England in 1933

Hangover Square (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Hangover Square (Penguin Modern Classics)
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English Journey: Or the Road to Milton Keynes

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A nice travelog....

English Journey: Or the Road to Milton Keynes
Beryl Bainbridge , and J.B. Priestley
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In 1983 Beryl Bainbridge and crew embarked on a BBC-sponsored tour from Southampton up through Manchester, then on to Milton Keynes, mirroring the route taken by J.B. Priestley in his 1933 classic, English Journey. Bainbridge pegs the British people just right, and notes the small details, such as the hundreds of starlings "perched in rows like black door-knobs" on the roof and gables of Bradford's Town Hall. She takes England's pulse, compares it to the England her family knew and to Priestley's reports of 50 years before, providing depth and poignancy to her sharp, amusing perceptions.

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A nice travelog...........2000-08-19

This book is about 158 pages long and reads like a serial in a newspaper--reminds me of Charles Kurult's bus trips across the U.S. except the camera crew travels across the U.K. Bainbridge records the daily trip in a writer's jounal.

The sections are laid out in journal form covering events day by day and many of the cities warrent a separate chapter. Like a motion picture camera, Bainbridge vividly records the detail of what is to be seen -- the view from the bus, the accomodations, the food, the highlights and frustrations. Her trip begins in Southhampton, then goes to these places: Salisbury, Bristol; Cotswolds; Birmingham; Stoke-on-Trent; Mancester, Liverpool, Bradford; Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Stockton-on-Tees; York, Lincoln, and Norwhch; and ends in Milton Keynes.

Baninbridge's trip is a "sort-of" southwest-northeast drive and one you might consider replicating in part if you're thinking of taking a motor trip though England. You'll miss many historic places (London), but you'll get a feel for the diversity of the land and it's people.

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The Good Companions
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The Wonderful World of the Theatre
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Recorded history is a finely-woven magic fabric of intricate lies about events predating the sixteenth century. There is not a single piece of evidence that can be reliably and independently traced back earlier than the eleventh century. This book details events that are substantiated by hard facts and logic, and validated by new astronomical research and statistical analysis of ancient sources.

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Calculations are only as good as your numbers.......2007-08-03

Yes, we can all agree that mainstream history is nearly 100% BS due to politics, economics, ego, problems with dating techniques, and various conspiracies. Agreed. But, I've been researching the distinct possibility that human history (in terms of civilizations) are much more ancient than we've been told, so coming across this book was very interesting to me. I wondered how Fomenko could be wrong (if at all) because he is very persuasive in his presentations. Then it dawned on me. If at previous times in prehistory, due to the various catastrophies that are well documented (comets, asteroids, planetary disruptions, plasma discharge, pole reversals, etc) the Earth was in a different position in relation to the sun, different tilt on its axis, different orbit, different rotation (in terms of velocity and DIRECTION), and the continents were in different positions, then would this not cause the ancients to see the sky (constellations) differently? In other words, is Fomenko making erronious assumptions about the physics of the Earth in pre-history, which then corrupt his data with regards to dating the relevant astrology? The last event to seriously disrupt our planet occured roughly 3500 years ago, according to other good researchers, so is it possible Fomenko has been confused by this? The vastly different physics of our planet in the not so distant past may explain this confusion, which is not to say the "mainstream" version of history is correct; on the contrary. I am not an expert in these fields, but wanted to see if this idea could spark discussion.

Pants on fire?.......2007-07-19

Will people ever read before spamming? Yes, Jesuits could not rewrite world history alone, they had help. Anyway, Dr Prof Acad A.Fomenko does not point to jesuits as the driving force of world wide history manipulation in published volumes 1,2,3;, actually he barely mentions the poor devils. Check it with 'Search inside' feature, please. China is rarely mentioned either, in fact, Dr Fomenko is completely eurocentric. Right, his theory contradicts all mainstream schools of history, because in their actual state they are all built on blatantly erroneus chronology. You don't need a mysterious cabal (conspiracy) to falsify history, the falsification is its modus operandi. It is inherent to history(ians) to falsify (distort) events, as it is inherent to humans to boast as it is inherent to power (authority) to legimize itself by referrring to glorious past made to its own order. Dr Prof Fomenko and team have identified scores of instances of such manipulation in Russian, European, etc.. history, and delivered valid statistical proof thereof. His own 'reconstruction' is completely another story. Forget c14 as a valid method of dating. W.Libby has initially discovered a brilliant method of INDEPENDENT dating. Too bad, c14 method has become a joke after a forced marrige with dendrochronology with consensual chronological scale inbuilt. Radiocarbon method can't stand blind tests, but is so very productive as a rubberstamp.

Accepted History & Chronology Must Be Changed. .......2007-04-09

There is no doubt that history as most know it is a sham, & institution's version of History both University & Church is fradulent & inaccurate. Everything was established with an agenda, The real "Dark Ages" are now when we have access to incredible amounts of information past authorities & more important 'common folk' didn't have but our institutions & educators are slow to evolve because of what has ignorantly & arrogantly been taught for too long. This is on many subjects not just Chronology.

For anyone to question "Why would a Mathematician have anything credible to say of History?" The answer is from Dr. Fomenko's preface in the book: "It would be worthwhile to remind the reader that in the XVI-XVII century Chronology was considered to be a subdivision of Mathematics." These volumes could possibly be some of the most important works to date & should be read by everyone with an interest in History, especially professors & educators who have a duty to the public. I have read both books & must say that 'Chronology 1' has some very eye opening & revolutionary information. Even if these volumes are part true the implications are profound & opens the doors to further investigations & questions which must be done. I speak several different lanquages & must say the logic Dr. Fomenko uses with "inflection" of words & words being read from left to right in one region & right to left in another then written backwards, the removal of vowels & get down to basics of words, or different cities & locations having the same name etc. is correct. Vowel usage has always been optional & varied, actually complicating linquistics & study. The first thing one has to understand is that words never had a fixed spelling in history like we do now, the spelling of words was mutable & regional, as well as names & titles of people were vast, varied & changed, NOTHING WAS FIXED or understood linear. Matters of Life & Death as well as financial profiteering yesterday & today were & are made with ignorant, illogical & conspiratorial views of history & reality, it's time people get closer to the Truth & society collectively grow up.

Very Interesting.......2007-03-07

It is a good proposal and I believe it will mature into something even better in the future. I think it deserves to be read.

History as Science Fiction.......2007-01-10

Anatoly Fomenko has written a very intriguing book, full of pictures, charts, and computer 'proof' of his thesis: backwards of AD900 we don't really know what happened or when. Between AD900 and AD1600 there is more certainty, but there is still a lot of fuzzy ground, and things don't get reliable until we get past the 1600's where the printing press made it very difficult for the perpetrators of this timeline manipulation to change anything that had been committed to print. The Dark Ages did not happen. Books were burned for a reason. One organization has doubled the actual length of its existence by expanding the real chronology. Read why.

I had always wondered why Christ died about AD33 and yet men waited until the 11th century to form the Knights Templar, the Cathars, etc and go after the Holy Land by force. Why the 1000 year gap? Turns out there wasn't more than a 10-12 year gap and he proves it using astronomy. This also implies that the planet is not as old as we have been told, and current Christian and other creationist scientists are already championing that idea without being aware of Fomenko's book. The two groups, creationist scientists and the Russian mathematical analysts corroborate each other. Fascinating.

Of course, all this flies in the face of what we have been told traditionally is the 'proper' chronology of western civilization, and most readers will experience 'cognitive dissonance' in reading this book. It means that our history going backwards from AD1600 becomes progressively more incorrect and unreliable until it cannot be trusted at all... in the space of 700-800 years.

Naturally, the curious, open-minded reader will want to know WHO did this, WHY, and did any of the events we think of as really ancient ever happen?
Dr. Fomenko is a respected scientist/mathematician at Moscow State University who has already answered these questions to the satisfaction of his initially skeptical colleagues. Most of them are now believers, a few still refuse to believe (the usual diehards), and of course the western press has ignored Fomenko's work -- for obvious reasons when you read the book. The ones who perpetrated this chronology ruse have a lot to answer for. They are still with us. That's why this book is a well-kept secret.

I gave the book a 4-star rating because I was unable to check out some of his claims; those I checked were as he said. But if even 1/3 of his claims are true, this punches a big hole in what we think is our history, the meaning of western civilization, our educational process (for repeating the ruse as gospel), and the trustworthiness of the organization that perpetrated this ruse, well-intentioned or not.

This book relates to current research into a Young Earth paradigm, to John Keel's discoveries about our planet, and Fr Malachi Martin's insights (in his now out-of-print books). We are indeed sheep who are manipulated and kept ignorant -- for a reason. While knowing what these men have to say may be the "booby prize" (as in: 'what can you do with this knowledge?'), it will provide interesting reading. Didn't someone say: "...and the Truth will set you free."?? For you to judge if this book contains the truth.

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Compelling stories by ordinary people
Living in hell through Asian eyes..
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Interesting
An excellent collection of personal experiences

Tales By Japanese Soldiers
Kazuo Tamayama , and John Nunneley
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"...consists of recollections by Japanese survivors of this terrible campaign, who describe instances of poignant sacrifice, heroism, and occasional compassion shown toward the enemy on both sides....full of imagery and information on the Burma Theater and is recommended, especially for the military historian."--Library Journal.

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Compelling stories by ordinary people.......2005-03-20

This is a collection of stories and memories by Japanese soldiers that fought in Burma between 1942 and 1945. The collection does not intend to give a comprehensive picture of the war, or of its participants. It is a series of snapshots of war as seen by the eyes of the ordinary people that actually fight it. Neither does the collection have literary ambitions: they have just told us their stories dircetly as they experienced them, with no special narrative technique or refinement. It actually does make the book so much more powerful.
Some people have complained that it is mainly about marching or waiting, well: that's what war is for ordinary soldiers: No maps, no situation reports, no overview, no moral justification. They walk in the direction they are told, the lie down when bullets start buzzing around their ears, and they try and kill the enemy before he kills them. In between actions they try and puzzle together a life away from fear.
Maybe we are spoilt by the magnificent war memoirs by some of the German generals, which, on the other hand, were educated cultured men with a bird's view of the war.
There are some especially poignant stories about meetings between British and Japanese soldiers which are far away from the Hollywood image of the raving yellow lunatics that must be killed on sight.
These men and women were not so much different from the allied soldiers we are taught to revere. And, indeed, they were often hailed as liberators by the colonial subjects of the US, Britain, France, and Holland.

Living in hell through Asian eyes.........2004-12-26

I bought this book hoping to get a view on how the Japanese soldiers experienced the war in Burma and war in general, but more importantly i was hoping for a different view than the one we are "accustomed" to through books written by Westerners.

The western market is saturated with such books describing experiences from various wars and times, but when i searched in Amazon i found only a handful translated into english and written by Asians.

In that regard i was surprised to see that most of the content of the book could've been written by a Westerner as well. There are, naturally, several accounts in the 60 and over stories included that do provide an insight into the Japanese psyche but they arent the majority.

One prevailing element is that most of the authors of the stories are very cynical in their desciptions, but in strange matter of fact way. They describe very scholastically what the situation was but as if from the eye of a distant observer.

Is this a worthy read generally speaking? Absolutely. Even if some of the stories are paradoxically boring for being battle accounts most are nothing less than gripping. There is one story in particular, that stood out in my mind where a japanese soldier not only narrates a harrowing account of a very ritical battle in Burma but also provides sketches he did in order to describe the horrors he witnessed. These sketches along with the accompanying descriptions will stay on your mind because of their sheer intensity.

Otherwise, this book is also very interesting from a military point of view as it provides a historical account of the difficulties and hardships as well as the strategical approaches of the Japanese during the war in Burma..

Another thing that is amongst the more noteworthy things here is that the Japanese would prefer suicide rather than fall into the hands of the enemy. Several such accounts are to be found in the book.

The last few stories are told by Japanese nurses and have a very special interest of their own.

very dissappointing.......2001-10-16

I was excited when I heard about this book, having exhausted myself with books about the European Theater, I wanted to see the Japanese side of the Pacific war. What a major dissapointment! All this is short personal accounts which are all bascially the same...Quick example..."We marched through the rough jungle of Burma, then we fought the enemy" Thats it, no insight about their fanatical beliefs, no comments about their prisoners, and nothing interesting about their views on the defeat. the only redeeming quality I got out of this book is the fact that I didn't waste any money on it, got it from the library.

Interesting.......2001-09-07

This is the voice of the real forgotten war. This book relates numerous first person accounts of the Burma Campaign. The tales come from officers, common enlisted men, to female nurses. Their descriptions are very vivid, and show the tragic side of war. One can also get a better feel of the Japanese culture and their views towards the war. They view the war from the ground level, without any question such as "why are we here", regardless of that they seem to have an almost casual attitude towards their own demise, which I found very interesting. I would rate this book very highly if you have an interest in both the Pacific theater and Japan.

An excellent collection of personal experiences.......2001-05-19

_Tales by Japanese Soldiers_ is a much needed addition to the very small number of Japanese sources on the Second World War available in the English language.

The book deals with the Burma Campaign where a very large number of Japanese faced the combined British, Indian, Chinese, and US forces. In fact, the Japanese suffered their largest defeats on land in Burma. On the other hand, the Allies also suffered their longest retreat of the war here in 1942.

Several Japanese officers and soldiers recount their experiences in _Tales by Japanese Soldiers_. Descriptions are given in chronological order, beginning with the 1942 invasion of Burma and ending with the British return in 1945. The biggest section is on the Battle of Imphal-Kohima, the great battle of attrition in 1944, in which the entire Japanese 15th Army was decimated. Stories of the retreat from Imphal are particularly compelling, especially a set of drawings by Yasumasa Nishiji.

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The first Japanese army unit was established in 1896. The Japanese railway engineers was a unique branch of the army which specialized in the operation and construction of railways and the employees of the Japanese National Railways conscripted into the army. This book tells the stories of the railway soldiers and JNR men during their training, their working experience in Burma, their engagements with the allied armies and their life after the surrender through the memoirs and testaments of those soldiers.

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Human behavior.......2006-05-14

During World War II, Japanese railway soldiers constructed the 415-kilometer (258 miles) Burma-Thailand railway, very ardous task deep in rugged mountains heavily infected by cholera and tropical diseases. Building the urgently-needed railway within fifteen months was a great engineering achievement, but one accomplished at the cost of unfortunate death of 12,656 prisoners of war, including 133 Americans, and 8600 local workers. Both Japanese soldiers and the prisoners of war worked in a punishing enviroment, facing almost continious rain, shortage of supplies and food. The Japanese officers and the Korean guards of the prisoners camps were under the intense psycological strains, caught between strict military orders and demands of humanity.
After Japan surrendered in August 1945, two railway officers and 43 men from the prisoners camps were hanged, through military crimes courts. A prisoners camp commander wrote in his will (abstrated)
'Under these most adverse conditions, I proceeded to perform my duty with selfless devotion to my country, as well as doing my best to improve and rationalise the situation in the camp. It was not in my power to prevent many precious lives being lost during the construction work because of such adverse conditions.
However Heaven did not favor us and we were defeated, and I am now to fade away'
This book tells, vividly and for the first time in English, the personal accounts of these railwaymen throughout the war.

Misconception on the Burma-Thailand Railway A Reader.......2006-05-06

The book is a wonderful addition to the English-speaking literature on the World War II which gives a fine impression of the young men of the Japanese Railway Regiment and their attitude to the life. It will help Westners to understand the Japanese better, and make better connections between the Japanese today and the Japanese then - however much we have all changed, there are a lot of misconceptions we can still have about each other, and this is sad. It is not suprizing that some of the Prisoners of War were able to get on well with the Japanese railwaymen, and and it is a pity that this is not better known, but such episodes will be known by the book.

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Kazuo; Nunneley, John Tamayama
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John Nunneley and Kazuo Tamayama. Tales by Japanese soldiers.(Book Review): An article from: Sabretache

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John Nunneley and Kazuo Tamayama. Tales by Japanese soldiers.(Book Review): An article from: Sabretache
Phil Bradley
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Title: John Nunneley and Kazuo Tamayama. Tales by Japanese soldiers.(Book Review)
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