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In war and famine : missionaries in China's Honan Province in the 1940s /
"The principle narrator of In War and Famine is the author's father, a young missionary doctor who, in a hair-raising journey, smuggled his family behind Japanese battlelines the year before Pearl Harbor. Erleen Christensen also tells the story of the many other missionaries who sought to...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montréal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2005.
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| Colección: | CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Maps
- Introduction: The Cast of Characters
- 1 The Other Side of No Man's Land
- 2 Behind Enemy Lines
- 3 Honan Missions
- 4 The Honan Way of Life
- 5 Sitting on the Edge of a Volcano
- 6 After Pearl Harbor
- 7 The Long Months of Silence
- 8 Crop Failure and Famine
- 9 Helping the Famine-Stricken
- 10 Two Journalists Tour the Famine Area
- 11 The Suffering Continues
- 12 The Embassy Comes to Call
- 13 The Japanese Overrun Honan
- 14 First war zone shattered
- 15 The OSS's Top Secret Project Tower
- 16 Project Tower in China17 Behind Japanese Lines with Team Viper
- 18 Reclaiming Honan Hospitals
- 19 The Return of the Missionaries
- 20 If we like them could die for Thee
- Appendix: Spelling of Chinese Place Names
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Illustration Credits
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
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