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Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong
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
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
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
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
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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...
On the Trail of Genghis Khan: An Epic Journey Through the Land of the Nomads
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...
The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
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...
Marine Corps Tank Battles in Korea
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
Author: Warner Smith
Format: Hardback
Number of Pages: 352
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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower
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...
Life and Afterlife in Ancient China
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...
Railways and The Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India
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
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...
Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia
Author: Jeevan Vasagar Format: Paperback 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...