World Bank History
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Back to Bangka
- Searching for the Truth About a Wartime Massacre
- Auteur(s): Georgina Banks
- Narrateur(s): Georgina Banks, Jane Harber
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
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Bangka Strait, Indonesia, 1942. Allied ships are evacuating thousands in flight from Singapore, the island having fallen to Japanese Imperial forces. Facing terrifying assaults by fighter planes, one ship, the Vyner Brooke, is badly bombed and sinks. Its survivors swim or paddle for hours to the nearest land, a beach on Bangka Island, parched, many dreadfully injured One of the survivors is Australian Army nurse Dorothy 'Bud' Elmes, the great-aunt of Georgina Banks. Bud makes it to the island, where she, colleagues and a matron tend to the wounded as a plan is formulated.
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Back to Bangka
- Searching for the Truth About a Wartime Massacre
- Narrateur(s): Georgina Banks, Jane Harber
- Durée: 9 h et 3 min
- Date de publication: 2023-06-20
- Langue: Anglais
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Back to Bangka is a deeply moving intergenerational family story; a gripping retelling and investigation of events that throw a spotlight on women in wartime - in their vulnerability and profound strength....
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The Sum of the People
- How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
- Auteur(s): Andrew Whitby
- Narrateur(s): David Piggott
- Durée: 11 h et 10 min
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This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American...
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The Sum of the People
- How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age
- Narrateur(s): David Piggott
- Durée: 11 h et 10 min
- Date de publication: 2020-04-10
- Langue: Anglais
- This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of big data and surveillance. In April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American...
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