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Maoism: A Global History
Author: Julia Lovell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 624 Winner of the 2019 Cundill History Prize "Revelatory and instructive . . . [a] beautifully written and accessible book" -The Times...
The House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
Author, Lan Yan Format, Paperback / softback Number of Pages, 432 Through the sweeping cultural and historical transformations of China, entrepreneur Lan Yan traces her family's history through early 20th...
India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
Author: Richard M. Eaton Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 512 A magisterial history of the Indian subcontinent The Indian subcontinent might seem a self-contained world. Protected by vast...
Lost Japan
Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 An enchanting and fascinating insight into Japan's landscape, culture, history and future Originally written in Japanese, this passionate, vividly...
Photo Nomad
Author: David Douglas Duncan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: The legendary photographs of David Douglas Duncan explore the broad range of human nature, from the most quiet notes of life...
A Beginner's Guide to Japan: Observations and Provocations
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Author: Pico Iyer Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 240 "Arguably the greatest living travel writer" (Outside magazine), Pico Iyer has called Japan home for more than three decades. But, as...
The Things They Carried
Author: Tim O'Brien Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 256 The million-copy bestseller, which is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. 'The...
Great State: China and the World
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Author: Timothy Brook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer's Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook...
Barbarians at the Wall: The First Nomadic Empire and the Making of China
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The untold story of the first nomadic empire and the making of China. 'Man does for the reader that...
The Nashos' War: Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam
Author: Mark Dapin Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 480 The untold story of the ordinary Australians conscripted to fight in our most controversial war, by one of our...
Himalaya: A Human History
Author: Ed Douglas Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 592 The first major history of the Himalaya - an epic story of peoples, cultures and the world's highest mountains...
The Analects
Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of ConfuciusÕs sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together...
The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 First time in Penguin Classics for this Japanese work dedicated to the art of drinking tea - and much...
Vietnam Diary
Author: Mark Wilson Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 32 Leigh and Jason are inseparable. But when Jason is conscripted and sent to fight in Vietnam, they are divided...
The General vs. the President: Macarthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War
Author: H.W. Brands Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 At the height of the Korean War, President Harry S. Truman committed a gaffe that sent shock waves around the world....
The Battle of Long Tan
Author: David W. Cameron Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 A compelling account of Australia's bloodiest and most significant battle of the Vietnam War, in time for the...
The Little Book of Zen: Sayings, Parables, Meditations & Haiku
Author: David Schiller Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 372 Updated, revised, with a new cover, new trim size, and illustrations throughout, the national bestseller The Little Zen Companion,...
The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists
Author: Tracy Walder Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 When Tracy Walder enrolled at the University of Southern California, she never thought that one day she would offer her pink...
Road to Disaster: A New History of America's Descent Into Vietnam
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Author: Brian Vandemark Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 656 "The most thoughtful and judicious one-volume history of the war and the American political leaders who presided over the difficult and...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History
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Author: Sunil Amrith (University of Cambridge) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 From a MacArthur Genius, a bold new perspective on the history of Asia, highlighting the long quest to...
Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War
Author: James Wright Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 The Vietnam War is largely recalled as a mistake, either in the decision to engage there or in the...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan
Author: Jonathan Clements Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 His grandfather was the bloodthirsty Mongol leader Genghis Khan, his mother a Christian princess. Groomed from childhood for a...
Army of Empire: The Untold Story of the Indian Army in World War I
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Author: George Morton-Jack Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 608 Drawing on untapped new sources, the first global history of the Indian Expeditionary Forces in World War I While their story...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Author: Amy Stanley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 352 A groundbreaking new history of Edo, now modern-day Tokyo, that will change our understanding of Japanese history, placing women's...
The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan
Author: Elliot Ackerman Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 112 A Times Political Book of the Year 2022 A powerful and revelatory eyewitness account of the American collapse in...
The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam
Author: Christopher Goscha Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 688 The first history for a general audience of one of Asia's most fascinating and complex countries As more and...
The Dragon's Teeth: The Chinese People's Liberation Army - its History, Traditions, and Air, Sea and Land Capabilities in the 21st Century
Author: Benjamin Lai Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 When Mao Zedong proclaimed The People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of...
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India
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Author: Jon Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days...
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House
Author: Larry Collins Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 656 The electrifying story of India's struggle for independence, told in this classic account by two fine journalists who conducted...
The Mongol Empire: Genghis Khan, his heirs and the founding of modern China
Author: John Man Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 The untold story of the world's greatest empire and the creation of modern China Genghis Khan is one of...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Author: Jeevan Vasagar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 Lion City tells the extraordinary story of Singapore - the world's most successful city state. In 1965, Singapore's GDP per capita...
On China
Author: Henry Kissinger Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 624 The legendary ex-US Secretary of State on the world's foremost emerging superpower In 1971 Henry Kissinger took the historic...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives
Author: Christopher Harding Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Two thousand years of Japanese history, told through interconnected portraits of twenty fascinating individuals Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils...
Mao: The Unknown Story
Author: Jon Halliday Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 992 The most authoritative life of Mao ever written, by the bestselling author of Wild Swans and her husband Jung...
Sabres on the Steppes: Danger, Diplomacy and Adventure in the Great Game
Author: John Ure Format: Hardback Number of Pages: Back in the day when men were men and Britain ruled the world, the two great world powers went head to head...
Lone Survivor: The Incredible True Story of Navy SEALs Under Siege
Author: Marcus Luttrell Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 400 In June 2005 four US Navy SEALs left their base in Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was...
The Penguin History of Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present, Third Edition
Author: Jonathan Fenby Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 848 The crucial book for understanding modern China, now updated to include the rule of Xi Jinping. In 1850, China...
The Hunt: The True Story of the Secret Mission to Catch a Taliban Warlord
Author: Andy McNab Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 From master storyteller Andy McNab, this is the opening book in an adventure-filled and action-packed new series telling, for...
Thriving in Crisis: Buddhism and Political Disruption in China, 1522-1620
Author: Dewei Zhang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Late imperial Chinese Buddhism was long dismissed as having declined from the glories of Buddhism during the Sui and Tang dynasties...
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
Author: Charles J. Hanley Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 Although it was then perceived as a far-off and inconclusive engagement, the Korean War was a highly consequential and deeply...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
Author: Adeline Yen Mah Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 The story of an unwanted Chinese daughter growing up during the Communist Revolution, blamed for her mother's death,...
The Maharajah's Box: An Imperial Intrigue
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Christy Campbell Format: Paperback...
The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 Mailer's classic account of the 1967 anti-Vietnam War rally in Washington D.C., and one of the best 'nonfiction novels'...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968
Author: Norman Mailer Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Mailer's masterful account of the 1968 presidential conventions, a snapshot of sixties turbulence. Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War...
The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation, and the Risks to the World's Most Dynamic Region
Author: Michael R. Auslin Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 An urgently needed "risk map" of the many dangers that could derail Asia's growth and stability "A point-by-point debunking of...
Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea: The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China
Author: Fan Chengda Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 415 Fan Chengda (1126-1193) was a high-ranking Chinese government official in Guangxi, an experienced traveler, a keen observer, and a gifted writer....
Ground Truth: 3 Para Return to Afghanistan
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. Author: Patrick Bishop Format: Paperback...
Vietnam: The Australian War
NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand...