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On 12 September 1944, a wolfpack of U.S. submarines attacked the Japanese convoy HI-72 in the South China Sea. Among the ships sunk were two carrying Allied prisoners of war. Men who had already endured the trials of Japanese captivity faced a renewed struggle for survival at sea. This book tells the broader story of the HI-72 convoy through the stories of two survivors: Arthur Bancroft, who was rescued by an American submarine, and Charles "...

From the first European contact with Tahiti in 1767, the myth of the South Sea maiden has endured through many incarnations. Although the maiden frequently provided an idealized antidote to Western women's self-assertion, the South Pacific also afforded a space where boundaries between the sexes could be relaxed and transgressed. From James Cook and Captain Bligh to James Michener and Margaret Mead, the "Island girl" has occupied a special pla...

World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese men-of-war and more than one thousand merchant ships. But the anonymity and simplicity of the stealthy torpedo attack hid the savagery of warfar...

World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese men-of-war and more than one thousand merchant ships. But the anonymity and simplicity of the stealthy torpedo attack hid the savagery of warfar...

Only seven U.S. submariners earned the Medal of Honour in World War II. Sam Dealey, the USS Harder's commander, was one of them. His honour was awarded posthumously after the entire crew was lost off Bataan during a depth-charge attack in August 1944. Drawing on previously untapped sources, Michael Sturma details several daring missions, one that involved the heroic Australian commando Bill Jinkins, and puts the USS Harder's action in the cont...

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The fate of the USS Flier is one of the most astonishing stories of the Second World War. On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its crew of eighty-six hands alive. After enduring eighteen hours in the water, eight remaining survivors swam to a remote island controlled by the Japanese. Deep behind enemy lines and without food or drinking water, th...

Das gegenwärtige Interesse am Personbegriff geht zu einem Großteil aus Problemstellungen der Angewandten Ethik hervor, die die Philosophie der Person in eine bedenkliche Schieflage bringen. Sie sieht sich mit Fragen konfrontiert, die nicht ohne weiteres ihrer Geschichte und Systematik entspringen. Dem berechtigten Interesse an der Angewandten Ethik muß daher eine intensive Grundlagendiskussion der Philosophie der Person an die Seite gestellt w...

On August 13, 1944, the submarine struck a mine and sank to the bottom of the Sulu Sea in less than one minute, leaving only fourteen of its eighty-six crewmen alive. Though some of the Flier's mysteries remain with the submarine beneath the sea, this title sheds light on the nature of underwater warfare and naval protocol.