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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong

Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong

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Author: Vaudine England Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have...
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 _______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear...
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East

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Author: Bernard Lewis Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 560 Bernard Lewis has charted the great centuries of Islamic power and civilisation but also, in his recent books WHAT WENT WRONG?...
Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World

Himalaya: Exploring the Roof of the World

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Author: John Keay Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples...
The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Catastrophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China

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Author: Kevin Rudd Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The relationship between the US and China, the world's two superpowers, is peculiarly volatile. It rests on a seismic fault-of cultural...
The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway

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On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads

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Author: Tim Cope Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The relationship between man and horse on the Eurasian steppe gave rise to a succession of rich nomadic cultures. Among them...
A Short History of China: From Ancient Dynasties to Economic Powerhouse

A Short History of China: From Ancient Dynasties to Economic Powerhouse

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The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China

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Author: James M. Zimmerman Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he...
House of Kwa

House of Kwa

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Author: Mimi Kwa Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations 'Revelatory and remarkable' - TRENT DALTON 'Memorable and vivid'...
Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea

Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea

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Author: Oscar E. Gilbert Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 356 The outbreak of the Korean conflict caught America and the Marine Corps unprepared. The Corp's salvation was the existence of...
Angkor's Temples in the Modern Era: War, Pride and Tourist Dollars

Angkor's Temples in the Modern Era: War, Pride and Tourist Dollars

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Author: John Burgess Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 268 A comprehensive examination of Angkor's last 120 years. Over 180 unusual and little-known photographs. Accessible scholarly treatment of one of the...
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did...
Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War

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Author: Max Hastings Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 752 THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'His masterpiece' Antony Beevor, Spectator 'A masterful performance' Sunday Times 'By far the best book on the...
Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation

Red Friends: Internationalists in China's Struggle for Liberation

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Author: John Sexton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 China's resistance to Imperial Japan was the other great internationalist cause of the 'red 1930s', along with the Spanish Civil War....
House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

House of Snow: An Anthology of the Greatest Writing About Nepal

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Author: Ellen Parnavelas Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 A ground-breaking collection of stories, poems and articles about Nepal covering the length and breadth of this enchanting nation and its...
Vietnam: a War Lost and Won

Vietnam: a War Lost and Won

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Author: Nigel Cawthorne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The book offers a comprehensive and balanced account of the emotive impact of the first media war, charting not only the...
Covert Warrior: C.I.A.'s Secret War in Southeast Asia and China, 1965-67

Covert Warrior: C.I.A.'s Secret War in Southeast Asia and China, 1965-67

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Author: Warner Smith Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 0
China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

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Author: Frank Dikoetter Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 416 _______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear...
Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation: The Commonwealth's Wars 1948-1966

Malayan Emergency and Indonesian Confrontation: The Commonwealth's Wars 1948-1966

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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice

Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Brotherhood and Sacrifice

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The Last Governor

The Last Governor

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Constant Vigilance: RAF Regiment in the Burma Campaign

Constant Vigilance: RAF Regiment in the Burma Campaign

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The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players That Won the War

The Pacific War: The Strategy, Politics, and Players That Won the War

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Hell is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific-Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944

Hell is Upon Us: D-Day in the Pacific-Saipan to Guam, June-August 1944

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The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45

The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942-45

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The Battle of Midway

The Battle of Midway

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Unheralded Victory: Who Won the Vietnam War?

Unheralded Victory: Who Won the Vietnam War?

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MacArthur's ""Ultra: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-45

MacArthur's ""Ultra: Codebreaking and the War Against Japan, 1942-45

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Royal Siamese Maps: War and Trade in Nineteenth Century Thailand

Royal Siamese Maps: War and Trade in Nineteenth Century Thailand

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The Forgotten Force: The Australian Military Contribution in Japan 1945-1952

The Forgotten Force: The Australian Military Contribution in Japan 1945-1952

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Japan in Peace and War

Japan in Peace and War

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American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-53

American Airpower Strategy in Korea, 1950-53

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The War in the West - A New History

The War in the West - A New History

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Ancient China

Ancient China

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The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom

The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom

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The Penguin Encyclopedia of Classical Civilizations

The Penguin Encyclopedia of Classical Civilizations

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Nehru: A Political Life

Nehru: A Political Life

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The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence

The Proudest Day: India's Long Road to Independence

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The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors

The First Emperor: China's Entombed Warriors

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The Two Koreas

The Two Koreas

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Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

Life and Afterlife in Ancient China

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Author: Jessica Rawson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 544 An epic new history of Ancient China told through the prism of a dozen extraordinary tombs. The three millennia up to...
Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and Living in Viet Nam

Wandering Souls: Journeys with the Dead and Living in Viet Nam

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Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire

Taj Mahal: Passion and Genius at the Heart of the Moghul Empire

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Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath

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Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America

Golden Bones: An Extraordinary Journey from Hell in Cambodia to a New Life in America

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Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India

Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India

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Author: Christian Wolmar Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire, an Empire that needed a rail network to facilitate its...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

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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...