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Major Political Events in Indo-China 1945-1990

Major Political Events in Indo-China 1945-1990

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Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. VOLUME 15, 1975

Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. VOLUME 15, 1975

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The Great Game

The Great Game

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Author: Peter Hopkirk Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth; Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia; fought a secret war in...
Ahmedabad: A Study in Indian Urban History

Ahmedabad: A Study in Indian Urban History

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Ceylon: An Account Of The Island, Physical, Historical, And Topographical, With Notices Of Its Natural History, Antiquities, and Productions, In Two Volumes

Ceylon: An Account Of The Island, Physical, Historical, And Topographical

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The Great Wall

The Great Wall

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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857

The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857

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Bureaucracy And Famine In Eighteenth-Century China

Bureaucracy And Famine In Eighteenth-Century China

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The Battle of Long Tan: As told by the Commanders

The Battle of Long Tan: As told by the Commanders

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Vietnam: The Australian War

Vietnam: The Australian War

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Japan at War: An Oral History

Japan at War: An Oral History

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The Forbidden Frontiers

The Forbidden Frontiers

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The Analects

The Analects

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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...
Pakistan

Pakistan

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Author: Anatol Lieven Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 608 In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world....
Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

Ghost Flames: Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953

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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...
Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice

Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice

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Author: Adam Makos Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 'This is aerial drama at its best. Fast, powerful, and moving.' - Erik Larson'A must read.' - New York...
Indochina

Indochina

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Everything is Broken

Everything is Broken

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The Hostage of Beijing: The Abduction of the Panchen Lama

The Hostage of Beijing: The Abduction of the Panchen Lama

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The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of  How India was Mapped and Everest was Named

The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named

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Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines

Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

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Hanoi Adieu: A Bittersweet Memoir of a Frenchman in Indochina

Hanoi Adieu: A Bittersweet Memoir of a Frenchman in Indochina

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Vietnam: A reporter's war

Vietnam: A reporter's war

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The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

The Unexpected Spy: From the CIA to the FBI, My Secret Life Taking Down Some of the World's Most Notorious Terrorists

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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

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...
Great State: China and the World

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...
Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya

Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya

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Pakistan: Fifty Years Of Nationhood, Third Edition

Pakistan: Fifty Years Of Nationhood, Third Edition

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The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

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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...
Chinese Lives: The People who Made a Civilization

Chinese Lives: The People who Made a Civilization

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Author: Victor H. Mair Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 232 China is the most populous country on earth, and has the longest history of any modern nation. Its cultural and...
The Maharajah's Box: An Imperial Intrigue

The Maharajah's Box: An Imperial Intrigue

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Chinese Lives: The People who Made a Civilization

Chinese Lives: The People who Made a Civilization

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1421: The Year China Discovered The World

1421: The Year China Discovered The World

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Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division

Liberty or Death: India's Journey to Independence and Division

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The Book of Five Rings

The Book of Five Rings

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Author: Miyamoto Musashi Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 96 Considered a classic treatise on military strategy, much like Sun Tzu's The Art of War and Chanakya's Arthashastra.
The Art of War

The Art of War

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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister: Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

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Author: Jung Chang Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through a hundred years of wars, revolutions and seismic...
The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

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Author: Sunil Khilnani Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 304 A classic since it was first published in 1997, The Idea of India is a magisterial historical study that...
A Brief History of the Dynasties of China

A Brief History of the Dynasties of China

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Author: Bamber Gascoigne Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 240 Although China's great empire lasted for longer than any other, no country has suffered so great an imbalance between...
Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City

Another Bangkok: Reflections on the City

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Author: Alex Kerr Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 336 The essential book for anyone visiting Bangkok - a wonderful mixture of history and culture - from the author...
Martin Luther:  Catholic Dissident

Martin Luther: Catholic Dissident

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Author: Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: When theologian Martin Luther issued his outspoken 1517 challenge to his own Catholic Church to reform itself from withinÑespecially over the sale...
Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

Red Roulette: An Insider's Story of Wealth, Power, Corruption and Vengeance in Today's China

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Author: Desmond Shum Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 320 'THE BOOK CHINA DOESN'T WANT YOU TO READ' CNN In the headline-making and bestselling tradition of Bill Browder's Red...
Unruly Waters: How Rains, Rivers, Coasts, and Seas Have Shaped Asia's History

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...
A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

A Brief History of Khubilai Khan

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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...
Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House

Freedom at Midnight: Inspiration for the major motion picture Viceroy's House

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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...
Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life

Tibet: Turning the Wheel of Life

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Author: Francoise Pommaret Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 160 Tibet has come to be synonymous with spirituality. It seems that the many hardships endured by the Tibetans -...
On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC

On the Margins of Southwest Asia: Cyprus during the 6th to 4th Millennia BC

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Author: Joanne Clarke Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 160 This book examines social change in Cyprus during the 6th to 4th millennia BC; a period that is traditionally viewed as...