Asian History

Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today the former British colonial trading post is a thriving...

In this newly revised edition of their classic work, Mason and Caiger trace the enthralling evolution of modern Japan from its early pre-history through the post-Cold War period to the...

This Pulitzer-prize-winning and National Book Critics Circle award-winning rich and powerful biography is now given fresh relevance with a new introduction by the author that explores how Hirohito's legacy persists...

Internationally renowned samurai expert Dr Stephen Turnbull delves into a pivotal era of Japanese history in this highly illustrated account of The Gempei War, a conflict that defined the age...

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Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: Tanning and foxingCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of history's most transformative figures speaks in his own voice in An Autobiography: or The...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the rain-slicked streets and serene temple gardens of modern Japan, Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo Prefectural Police finds himself entangled...

Find your inner Zen: Enlightening destinations from India to Indonesia Much more than a travel or holiday guide, Great Escapes Asia is first and foremost a paradisiacal photo album. Featuring...

Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj - and reveals how...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: YellowedFew accounts in the history of world literature have fired the imagination quite like The Travels of Marco Polo, the...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageOne of the most remarkable voices to emerge from colonial Southeast Asia, Raden Adjeng Kartini wrote with a...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodAt the crossroads of history and human tragedy, Viet-Nam Witness: 1953-66 stands as one of the most authoritative and unflinching firsthand accounts...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the meditative caves of India to the mystical courts of ancient China, Oriental Mystics and Magicians transports readers into the hidden world of...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the harrowing theatre of the Pacific War, one Australian soldier's story stands as a testament...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageAt the height of the Cold War, when the ideological machinery of the Chinese Communist Party...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: N/APages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA cornerstone of Southeast Asian linguistic scholarship, An Indonesian-English Dictionary by John M. Echols and Hassan Shadily stands as the...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageWhen the Empire of Japan cast its shadow across the Pacific, Australia found itself on the front line...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodIn the elegant, ceremonious world of contemporary Japan, where tradition and modernity exist in uneasy tension, Superintendent Tetsuo Otani of the Hyogo...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: YellowedCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image; faded spine; creased cornersBehind the bamboo curtain, a nation of one billion souls struggles beneath the weight...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedThere is a moment in every season — a heron poised above still water, frost tracing the edge of a fallen leaf, moonlight dissolving...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodFrom the smoldering ruins of the 1948 War of Independence to the thunderous tank battles of the Yom Kippur War, Arab-Israeli Wars presents a...

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Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA treasure trove for collectors, scholars, and enthusiasts alike, Asian Art presents the distinguished holdings of one of...

This illustrated study investigates the Indo-Islamic fighting men of South Asia from the 7th century AD to the Mughal conquest of the 16th century. From 1206, much of what is...

The big, bold taste explosions of Asia have had Bill Granger hooked since childhood. With Bill's Everyday Asian, he takes the best that Asian food has to offer and gives...

North Korea is perhaps the most intriguing, infamous and enigmatic nation of our modern world. Yet how many of us know its full history, and how it came to be?...

Despite communist incursions and tribal insurrection, Norman Lewis describes a land of breath-taking natural beauty peopled by the gentle Burmese. This is a country where Buddhist beliefs spare even the...

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but...

The book titled The Fishing Fleet: Husband-Hunting in the Raj by the author Anne De Courcy. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

An urgent examination of the great wave of change breaking over today's world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and New York Times bestselling author of The Death of Truth...

' John Keay is the master storyteller and historian. This grand narrative of Himalaya is as epic as the mountains and peoples he describes' Dan Snow 'Adds the human element...

On 14-15 May 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. It was among the top...

Fuelled by the widespread immiseration caused by the Covid-19 pandemic and facilitated by the boom in cryptocurrencies, online frauds have grown exponentially in recent years. From the infamous 'pig butchering'...

A 2023 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title This is the most up-to-date and comprehensive volume on the international relations of Asia and the Indo-Pacific. The Asian region has become the...

China's rise to superpower is seemingly a modern phenomenon, but it has a long history. This book follows China's geopolitical transformation on the world stage, from struggling to defend herself...

An updated edition of this landmark history, with brand new and up-to-date material. Over the centuries the Middle East has confounded the dreams of conquerors and peacemakers alike. This now-classic...

The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China...

What would you want if you could have any wish? asked the photojournalist of the haggard, bloodied Marine before him. The Marine gaped at his interviewer. The photographer snapped his...

Baba is "Papa" in Chinese, and this particular Baba is Joseph Yang, born in Manchuria in 1928. His daughter, Belle, a writer and visual artist who was born in Taiwan...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageA gateway into one of the world's most rich and enduring artistic traditions, Chinese & Japanese Art is...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: Tanning and foxingFrom the wilderness of Sinai to the dawn of the Christian era, A Short Religious History of Israel...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerTwo boys, one Chinese and one European, find themselves swept into a breathtaking overland journey across the vast, unforgiving Gobi...

Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: YellowedCondition remarks: dj with some insect damage; binding remains tightAt the crossroads of ancient tradition and breathtaking modernity, Asia is...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew conflicts tested the limits of American air power as brutally and as publicly as the skies above North Vietnam, and Air War Hanoi by...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Very goodPages: GoodFew conflicts have scarred the American psyche as deeply as the war fought in the jungles and rice paddies of Southeast Asia, and The History...