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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: 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...
Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town

Eat the Buddha: The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town

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Author: Barbara Demick (Y) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 336 LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest...
Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes

Silk Roads: Peoples, Cultures, Landscapes

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Author: Susan Whitfield Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 480 As world powers realign their cultural, economic and political outlooks, there is no better time to consider how Afro-Eurasia's complex network...
The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India

The Chaos of Empire: The British Raj and the Conquest of India

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Author: Jon Wilson Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 592 The popular image of the British Raj-an era of efficient but officious governors, sycophantic local functionaries, doting amahs, blisteringly hot days...
Byzantium: The Apogee

Byzantium: The Apogee

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Byzantium: The Early Centuries

Byzantium: The Early Centuries

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The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan

The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan

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Author: Dilip Hiro Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 528 The partitioning of British India into independent Pakistan and India in August 1947 occurred in the midst of communal holocaust, with...
The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

The Gate to China: A New History of the People's Republic & Hong Kong

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Author: Michael Sheridan Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 480 'Impressive ... Fascinating' Sunday Times 'An authoritative history' Financial Times 'Gripping and richly researched' Rana Mitter A superb new history of...
Ceylon: An Account Of The Island, Physical, Historical, And Topographical, With Notices Of Its Natural History, Antiquities, and Productions, In Two Volumes

Ceylon: An Account Of The Island, Physical, Historical, And Topographical

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The Great Wall

The Great Wall

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Bureaucracy And Famine In Eighteenth-Century China

Bureaucracy And Famine In Eighteenth-Century China

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Vietnam: The Australian War

Vietnam: The Australian War

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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...
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...
Modern Japan: Aspects Of History, Literature And Society - School Of Oriental And African Studies On Modern Asia And Africa Number 11

Modern Japan: Aspects Of History, Literature And Society - School Of Oriental And African Studies On Modern Asia And Africa Number 11

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The Forbidden Frontiers

The Forbidden Frontiers

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The Analects

The Analects

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Author: Confucius Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The Analects are a collection of ConfuciusÕs sayings brought together by his pupils shortly after his death in 497 BC. Together...
Korea: The Lost War

Korea: The Lost War

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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...
Indochina

Indochina

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The Battle of Long Tan

The Battle of Long Tan

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The Hostage of Beijing: The Abduction of the Panchen Lama

The Hostage of Beijing: The Abduction of the Panchen Lama

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The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of  How India was Mapped and Everest was Named

The Great Arc: The Dramatic Tale of How India was Mapped and Everest was Named

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Dynasty: Nehru-Gandhi Story

Dynasty: Nehru-Gandhi Story

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Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier

Soldier Sahibs: The Men Who Made the North-West Frontier

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Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines

Days of Infamy: Macarthur, Roosevelt, Churchill, the Shocking Truth Revealed : How Their Secret Deals and Strategic Blunders Caused Disasters at Pearl Harbor and the Philippines

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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded

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Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China

Passport to Peking: A Very British Mission to Mao's China

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Secret War In Shanghai: Treachery, Subversion and collaboration in the Second World War

Secret War In Shanghai: Treachery, Subversion and collaboration in the Second World War

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Vietnam: A reporter's war

Vietnam: A reporter's war

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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...
Great State: China and the World

Great State: China and the World

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Author: Timothy Brook Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 464 The world-renowned scholar and author of Vermeer's Hat does for China what Mary Beard did for Rome in SPQR: Timothy Brook...
Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya

Spying for the Raj: The Pundits and the Mapping of the Himalaya

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Pakistan: Fifty Years Of Nationhood, Third Edition

Pakistan: Fifty Years Of Nationhood, Third Edition

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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...
On the Wire: An Australian Journalist on the Front Line in Asia

On the Wire: An Australian Journalist on the Front Line in Asia

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The Battle Of Coral: Vietnam Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral, May 1968

The Battle Of Coral: Vietnam Fire Support Bases Coral and Balmoral, May 1968

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Those Ragged Bloody Heroes

Those Ragged Bloody Heroes

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Hanoi: Biography of a City

Hanoi: Biography of a City

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Hanoi: Biography of a City

Hanoi: Biography of a City

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Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

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The Art of War

The Art of War

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Author: Sun Tzu Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: The ancient Chinese general Sun Tzu is universally recognized as the greatest military strategist in history, a master of warfare...
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

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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...
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...