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Captain Glenn F Howell kept a detailed account of his activities in China for 62 years His journals now make up 202 leatherbound volumesone of the largest sources in existence perhaps the largest of servicemens observations of service in China during that countrys struggle to oust one power and come to grips with a new one between World War I and II This work presents Howells diary from June 6 1920 to September 23 1921 during which time he commanded the naval gunboat USS Palos on the Yangtze River First comes a biography of Howell an overview of Chinese history from 1800 to 1920 and a history of the United States military involvement in China during those years Howells time as commander of the USS Palos is divided into three sections Preceding each the editor comments on the nature of the upcoming diary entries Howell covers a range of topics including the Chinese people various important locales eg the Three Gorges making official visits his first as a captain officerenlisted man relations opium the steam navy people who influenced him S Cornell Plant and Captain Joseph Miclo skipper of the Meitan missionaries and other foreigners in China including US military retirees and trackers Chinas human beasts of burden
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The US Navys patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the shoreline factories Tolley was a young naval officer in the 1930s when assigned gunboat duty first in the Mindanao then in the Tutuila and finally the Wake in August 1941 His colorful description of life as a river rat is filled with anecdotes about the resourceful and highspirited sailors who manned the old riverboats in that distant landIn the process of telling their story he covers a century of Chinese history replete with warlords and mandarins bandits and kidnappers missionaries and mercenaries riots and revolution He presents a knowledgeable summary of the political situation in China up to World War II including the bombing of the Panay the siege of Shanghai and the Nanking incident Far more than a routine account of naval operations on the great Yangtze this book is an unforgettable reading experience that has attracted readers since 1971 when it was first published in hardcover
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The US Navys patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the shoreline factories Tolley was a young naval officer in the 1930s when assigned gunboat duty first in the Mindanao then in the Tutuila and finally the Wake in August 1941 His colorful description of life as a river rat is filled with anecdotes about the resourceful and highspirited sailors who manned the old riverboats in that distant landIn the process of telling their story he covers a century of Chinese history replete with warlords and mandarins bandits and kidnappers missionaries and mercenaries riots and revolution He presents a knowledgeable summary of the political situation in China up to World War II including the bombing of the Panay the siege of Shanghai and the Nanking incident Far more than a routine account of naval operations on the great Yangtze this book is an unforgettable reading experience that has attracted readers since 1971 when it was first published in hardcover
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Acquired from kennels in preSecond World War Shanghai by British sailors Judy a purebred pointer became the mascot of a gunboat patrolling the Yangtze River and was soon at war with and captured by the Japanese One of her fellow captives managed to persuade the commandant to let him keep her and she became the only official canine PoW This book tells the extraordinary story of her resilience bravery and loyalty during internment and a series of adventures including shipwrecks and jungle treks
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On December 12 1937 Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing China Although the Japanese apologized the attack turned American public opinion against Japan and President Roosevelt dispatched Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to begin conversations with the British admiralty about Japanese aggression in the Far East While few Americans remember the Panay Incident it established the first links in the chain of AngloAmerican military collaboration that eventually triumphed in World War IIIn The Origins of the Grand Alliance William T Johnsen provides the first comprehensive analysis of military collaboration between the United States and Great Britain before the Second World War He sets the stage by examining AngloFrench and AngloAmerican coalition military planning from 1900 through World War I and the interwar years Johnsen also considers the formulation of policy and grand strategy operational planning and the creation of the command structure and channels of communication He addresses vitally important logistical and materiel issues particularly the difficulties of war productionMilitary conflicts in the early twentyfirst century continue to underscore the increasing importance of coalition warfare for historian and soldier alike Drawn from extensive sources and private papers held in the United Kingdom Canada and the United States Johnsens exhaustively researched study refutes the idea that America was the naive junior partner in the coalition and casts new light on the USUK special relationship
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In 1913 Vincent Gowen fresh from university left Seattle in search of adventure across the Pacific In 1945 now priest teacher husband father and published novelist he returned Between those years he experienced China the China of warlords gunboats and treaty ports on the Yangtze becoming fluent in Chinese and absorbing its culture He spent his next 15 years among the Igorot people of the riceterraced mountains of northern Luzon in the Philippines Finally with his family he was imprisoned in a World War II Japanese internment camp that witnessed the devastating Battle of Manila In a style that is witty erudite and often poignant he recounts these years in Sunrise to Sunrise He sees his place as someone though neither famous nor scandalous who endured and was able to observe history as it was being made These times and places compressed into one lifetime three distinct epochs one so primitive as to be haunted by spells and magic another violently medieval and a third a 20th Century civilization in which men attained an efficiency in slaughtering one another For me these experiences made an obscure life profoundly worthwhile More than forty years after these memoirs were written his son and daughter edited his manuscript added footnotes maps an epilogue and more than forty pages of illustrations with over hundred photos mostly by the author and never before published As one reviewer said this is a historical and spiritual page turner Anyone interested in China the Philippines World War II the Episcopal Church overseas or who just wants a good adventure story should read this book
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