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May 2022
Maoism: A Global History

Maoism: A Global History

$59.95$15.00
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 Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

The Idea of India: 20th Anniversary Edition

$12.00
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...
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

$15.00
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...
Himalaya: A Human History

Himalaya: A Human History

$22.99$19.54
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 Battle of Long Tan

The Battle of Long Tan

$22.99$19.54
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...
Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Stranger in the Shogun's City: A Woman's Life in Nineteenth-Century Japan

$22.99$19.54
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...
On China

On China

$27.99$23.79
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...
Mao: The Unknown Story

Mao: The Unknown Story

$29.99$25.49
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...
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots: The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter

$22.99$19.54
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,...
Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

Bending Adversity: Japan and the Art of Survival

$24.99$21.24
Author: David Pilling Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 464 A both definitive and highly enjoyable book on how modern Japan works - now fully updated to 2020 and...