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Lost in Vietnam
Vietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans' collective memory. It is still easy to forget that Vietnam...
A Bond Undone: Legends of the Condor Heroes Vol. 2
THE CHINESE "LORD OF THE RINGS" - NOW IN ENGLISH FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE SERIES EVERY CHINESE READER HAS BEEN ENJOYING FOR DECADES - 100 MILLION COPIES SOLD. "Jin...
The Girl In The Picture: The Remarkable Story Of Vietnam's Most Famous
Kim Phuc was nine years old in 1972. Severely burned by napalm, she ran from her burning village and was captured on film. Denise Chong relates Kim's experience and recovery...
All under Heaven: A Complete History of China
A one-volume narrative history of China, from the earliest inhabitants to the twentieth century, for a popular readership China is a country with an ancient and highly sophisticated civilization of...
North Korean Ideology: A Cold War History
Where lie the origins of North Korean ideology? When, why, and to what extent did North Korean ideology begin to transform into the idiosyncratic ideology that it is today? In...
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption, and
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"THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ." --CNN SELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR by THE ECONOMIST and FINANCIAL TIMES This "powerful and disturbing" (Bill Browder, author...
Dethroned: The Downfall of India's Princely States
The dramatic true story of the betrayal of hundreds of Indian princely states by both the departing British and the new Congress government. In July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord...
RAF Boys in the Far East: True Tales of the RAF in India, South East
For 82 years the Royal Flying Corps (RFC), which in 1918 became the Royal Air Force (RAF), maintained a permanent military aviation presence in the Far East. Throughout that time...
China: The Land of the Heavenly Dragon
The book titled China: The Land of the Heavenly Dragon by the author Edward L. Shaughnessy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.
Nathaniel's Nutmeg: How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission - to persuade the islanders of Run to grant...
Weapons Of The Israeli Arab War 1973
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn October 1973, the sands of the Sinai and the heights of the Golan erupted in one of...
Lacquerware Masterpieces from Southeast Asia
Although much has been written about Burmese Lacquerware, this book breaks new ground with essays by the art historians Sylvia Fraser-Lu and Linda McIntosh focusing on the locations and techniques...
Hiroshima Nagasaki: The Real Story of the Atomic Bombings and Their
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In this harrowing history of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, Paul Ham argues against the use of nuclear weapons, drawing on extensive research and hundreds of interviews to prove that...
Letters From Burma
For the last fiftenn years of Burma's traumatic history, Aung San Suu Kyi has been the inspirational leader of attempts to restore democracy to her country. In these fifty-two pieces...
Midnight's Children
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBorn at the precise moment of India's independence — the stroke of midnight on August 15, 1947 —...
Letters Of A Javanese Princess
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the dawn of the twentieth century,...
A Winter In Nepal
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the shadow of the world's highest...
Tibet Is My Country
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersBorn into one of Tibet's most revered families —...
The Siege At Peking
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous owner,Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and cornersIn the sweltering summer of 1900, a desperate band...
Baba Nonnie Goes To War: The Memoirs Of A Singapore Volunteer On The Thai-Burma Railway
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageBaba Nonnie Goes to War stands as a powerful first-hand account of one man's ordeal during...
Travels With A Tangerine: A Journey In The Footnotes Of Ibn Battutah
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodWhat happens when a modern wanderer sets out to retrace the footsteps of history's greatest traveller? Travels with a Tangerine: A Journey in the Footnotes...
A Many-Splendoured Thing
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodSet against the turbulent backdrop of Hong Kong in the early 1950s, as Communist revolution reshapes mainland China and the Korean War...
Not With Guns Alone
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the jungles of Vietnam to the corridors of political power in Southeast Asia, Not with Guns Alone presents a searing account of the Vietnam...
River Road To China: The Search For The Source Of The Mekong, 1866-73
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the mid-nineteenth century, a daring French expedition set out to chart one of Asia's greatest mysteries —...
Selected Works Of Mao Tse-Tung: Volume Three
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the crossroads of revolution and ideology, Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung: Volume Three presents a definitive collection...
Selected Works Of Mao Tse-Tung: Volume One
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Edition: repr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerAt the heart of one of the most transformative political movements of the twentieth century stands the collected thought...
Gods Of Kumano
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageDeep in the mist-shrouded mountains of the Kii Peninsula, where ancient pilgrimage routes wind through primeval forest, lies...
Cherry Blossoms
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew natural phenomena have captured the human imagination as completely and enduringly as the cherry blossom — Japan's...
Biggles In The Gobi
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Edition: 2nd pr.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: 6 colour illustrationsFew fictional heroes have claimed the skies quite like Biggles — and in Biggles in the...
Old Japan: Secrets from the Shores of the Samurai
Discover the ancient ways of the Samurai and experience the stunning myth of Old Japan. Japan has often been thought of as a closed country, but before the country was...
Junko Tabei Masters the Mountains
A historical novel based on the life of Junko Tabei, the first female climber to summit Mount Everest From the world of Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls comes the...
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World
' John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element...
The Book of Secrets: A Personal History of Betrayal in Red China
'An extraordinary firsthand account of Communist Party machinery at its most brutal and paranoid' -- Sunday Telegraph Picked as Hilary Spurling's Book of the Year in The Spectator. The spellbinding...
Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World
The first popular history of The Amazons, the real warrior women of Central Asia, based on groundbreaking new research. Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated...
The Forbidden City: Heart of Imperial China
The Forbidden City in Beijing, founded in 1405, is one of the greatest palaces in the world: a magnificent complex of residences, temples and courts, the sacred centre of the...
Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity
A FINANCIAL TIMES HIGHLIGHT FOR 2026 'The most important reappraisal of modern China to appear in years' PETER FRANKOPAN, author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed From renowned,...
Geography Of The Ussr
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, understanding the vast and enigmatic Soviet Union was not merely an...
The Coming War Between Russia & China
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, a chilling question haunted the world's most powerful nations: what happens...
L'Empire Des Signes
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat happens when one of the twentieth century's most brilliant minds turns his gaze upon an entirely foreign...
A History Of Modern Japan
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFrom the twilight of the Tokugawa shogunate to the aftermath of the Second World War, A History of...
Japanese Society
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhat holds a society together when its members share no common creed, ethnicity, or ideology? Chie Nakane's landmark...
The Chrysanthemum And The Sword: Patterns Of Japanese Culture
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew works of cultural anthropology have proven as enduring or as controversial as The Chrysanthemum and...
Two Queens Of Baghdad
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the glittering heart of the Abbasid Caliphate, two extraordinary women wielded power that defied the constraints of...
Treasures Of China
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageFew civilizations have bequeathed to the world a legacy as breathtaking and diverse as that of China, and...
The Death Of Woman Wang
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the remote county of T'an-ch'eng in seventeenth-century China, a peasant woman named Wang vanishes into the night,...
Myths And Legends Series: China And Japan
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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFrom the celestial courts of jade emperors to the shadow-draped halls of samurai legend, Myths and Legends Series: China and Japan transports readers into the...
Air War Against Japan 1943-1945
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodIn the sweltering skies over the Pacific and Southeast Asia, Australian airmen waged a relentless and brutal campaign...
The Japanese Thrust
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: GoodWhen Imperial Japan launched its devastating military campaign across South-East Asia and the Pacific in late 1941, Australia...