Fighting Malaria on the River Kwai
A Peace Corps Memoir
During World War II, 12,000 Allied prisoners of war died while constructing a bridge over the river Kwai in western Thailand, and then a railway through the thick jungles of the Kwai Valley all the way to Burma.Decades later, during the Vietnam War, Jonathan R.C. Green enlisted as a medic in the U.S. Army, expecting to take care of wounded Americans and Asians, but was kept in a Stateside assignment instead, much to his frustration. So, shortly before his enlistment expired, he applied for the Peace Corps and asked to serve in Southeast Asia.Six weeks after leaving the Army, he arrived in Thailand as a Peace Corps Volunteer. His job assignmen…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4808-7756-6
- EAN: 9781480877566
- Produktnummer: 31901476
- Verlag: Archway Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 138 S.
- Masse: H28.0 cm x B21.6 cm x D0.9 cm 535 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 535
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