Prelude to the Monsoon : : Assignment in Sumatra / / G. F. Jacobs.
The author's personal eyewitness account of the developments in Sumatra immediately after the Japanese surrender in August of 1945 combines the excitement and adventure of a fast-paced novel with a valuable record of a lost portion of history.
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Anniversary Collection
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (280 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Foreword
- Introduction
- I. A Journey Foreseen
- II. Arrival by Parachute
- III. First Encounter
- IV. The Going becomes Tougher
- V. Flight in a Japanese Bomber
- VI. The Living Dead
- VII. Incident on the Equator
- VIII. In Search of Survivors
- IX. Strange Allies
- X. Lady Mountbatten
- XI. Mass Murder
- XII. New Complications
- XIII. Time Runs Out
- XIV. End of the Road
- XV. Departure
- Notes