Tag: Untold

July 19, 2023

Semut The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo

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Free Download Semut: The Untold Story of a Secret Australian Operation in WWII Borneo
July 02, 2021 | English | ASIN: B0933GYHRZ | 13 hrs 53 mins | M4B & MP3@126 kbps
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Author: Christine Helliwell | Narrators: Dorje Swallow, Christine Helliwell
This is the story of Operation Semut, an Australian secret military operation launched by the organisation popularly known as Z Special Unit in the final months of WWII. Anthropologist Christine Helliwell has called on her years of first-hand knowledge of Borneo, interviewed more than 100 Dayak people and all the remaining Semut operatives, and consulted thousands of military and other documents to piece together this astonishing story. Focusing on two of Borneo’s great rivers – the Baram and Rejang – the book provides a detailed military history of Semut II’s and Semut III’s brutal guerrilla campaign against the Japanese and reveals the decisive but long-overlooked Dayak role in the operation.

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July 17, 2023

First to the Front The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent

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Free Download First to the Front: The Untold Story of Dickey Chapelle, Trailblazing Female War Correspondent
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1250276578 | 382 Pages | EPUB (True) | 21 MB
She documented conditions across Eastern Europe in the wake of the Second World War. She marched down the Ho Chi Minh Trail with the South Vietnamese Army and across the Sierra Maestra Mountains with Castro. She was the first reporter accredited with the Algerian National Liberation Front, and survived torture in a communist Hungarian prison. She dove out of planes, faked her own kidnapping, and endured the mockery of male associates, before ultimately dying on assignment in Vietnam with the Marines in 1965, the first American female journalist killed while covering combat.

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July 15, 2023

Indias Bravehearts Untold Stories from the Indian Army

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Free Download Lieutenant General Satish Dua (Retired), "Indias Bravehearts : Untold Stories from the Indian Army"
English | 2020 | pages: 162 | ISBN: 935345137X | PDF | 0,6 mb
Ever wondered what a soldiers life is really like? Indias Bravehearts is a rare inside account of the Indian Army by one of its most celebrated officers. This book tells gripping stories of death-defying operations and daring surgical strikes, the intense training soldiers have to undergo to become battle-fit, what life is really like on the LoC and the lives of the young men who made the ultimate sacrifice for their country. Page-turning, thrilling and heartbreaking, you will see the Indian Army and our soldiers close up, like you have never seen them before.

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July 14, 2023

AIDS Sutra Untold Stories from India

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Free Download AIDS Sutra: Untold Stories from India By Negar Akhavi (editor)
2008 | 352 Pages | ISBN: 030745472X | PDF | 37 MB
In this groundbreaking anthology, sixteen renowned writers tell the hidden story of the AIDS crisis, illuminating the complex nature of one of the major problems facing the developing world. India is home to almost 3 million HIV cases, but AIDS is still stigmatized and shrouded in denial. Discrimination against HIV-affected individuals in hospitals, schools, and even among families is common, just as discussion about HIV and participation in prevention or treatment programs are not. In this riveting book, sixteen of India’s most well-known writers go on the road to uncover the reality of AIDS in India and tell the human stories behind the epidemic.Kiran Desai travels to the coast of Andhra Pradesh, where the sex workers are considered the most desirable; Salman Rushdie meets members of Mumbai’s transgender community; William Dalrymple encounters the devadasis, women who have been "married" to a temple goddess and thus are deemed acceptable for transactional sex. Eye-opening, hard-hitting, and moving, AIDS Sutra presents a side of India rarely seen before.

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