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Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world

Fallout: the Hiroshima cover-up and the reporter who revealed it to the world

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Author: Lesley BlumeFormat: Paperback, 153mm x 234mm, 288 pagesPublished: Scribe Publications, United Kingdom, 2020A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES AND VANITY FAIR New York Times bestselling...
Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

Macarthur's Spies: The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

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The Eagle And The Lotus: Western Intervention In Vietnam 1847-1968

The Eagle And The Lotus: Western Intervention In Vietnam 1847-1968

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Author: J.F. Cairnsbinding: SoftbackPublished: Lansdowne Press, 1969Condition: book: Fair, jacket: No dust jacket, page: Yellowed, markings: No markingsThis book explores the complexities of Western intervention in Vietnam from 1847 to...
The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan

The Rise and Fall of Imperial Japan

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Author: S.L. Mayer (editor)binding: HardbackPublished: Bison Books, 1988 reprintCondition: book: Very good, jacket: Wear and tear, page: Yellowed, markings: Previous ownerThis book explores Japan's transformation into a world power under...
The History of the Vietnam War

The History of the Vietnam War

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Naval Surgeon Revolt in Japan

Naval Surgeon Revolt in Japan

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HMAS Bataan, 1952

HMAS Bataan, 1952

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Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice

Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship and Sacrifice

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Major Political Events in Indo-China 1945-1990

Major Political Events in Indo-China 1945-1990

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Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam

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Author: Mark Bowden Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 640 By January 1968 the fighting in Vietnam seemed to be at a stalemate. Yet General William Westmoreland, commander of American forces,...
Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War

Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War

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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...
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...
A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War

A Christmas Far from Home: An Epic Tale of Courage and Survival during the Korean War

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Author: Stanley Weintraub Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 304 In the tradition of his Silent Night and Pearl Harbor Christmas , historian Stanley Weintraub presents another gripping narrative of a...
Enduring Freedom, Enduring Voices: US Operations in Afghanistan

Enduring Freedom, Enduring Voices: US Operations in Afghanistan

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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...
Ruin From The Air: The Atomic Mission To Hiroshima

Ruin From The Air: The Atomic Mission To Hiroshima

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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...
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...
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

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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 House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

The House of Yan, A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History

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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...
The Nashos' War: Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam

The Nashos' War: Australia's national servicemen and Vietnam

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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...
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives

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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...
The Battle of Long Tan

The Battle of Long Tan

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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...
Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968

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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 Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel / The Novel as History

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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'...
Photo Nomad

Photo Nomad

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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...
Vietnam Diary

Vietnam Diary

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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...