The Adventures of Eddie Fung
Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War
Eddie Fung has the distinction of being the only Chinese American soldier to be captured by the Japanese during World War II. He was then put to work on the Burma-Siam railroad, made famous by the film The Bridge on the River Kwai. In this moving and unforgettable memoir, Eddie recalls how he, a second-generation Chinese American born and raised in San Francisco's Chinatown, reinvented himself as a Texas cowboy before going overseas with the U.S. Army. On the way to the Philippines, his battalion was captured by the Japanese in Java and sent to Burma to undertake the impossible task of building a railroad through 262 miles of tropical jungle.…
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- ISBN: 978-0-295-80205-3
- EAN: 9780295802053
- Produktnummer: 20514248
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 227 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'093 KB
- Abbildungen: 37 illus.
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Edited by Judy Yung
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