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1421: The Year China Discovered America
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Author: Gavin Menzies
<p>On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China. Its mission was "to proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas" and unite the whole world in...
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Hiroshima
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Author: John Hersey
<p>On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and...
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Orientalism
Author: Edward W. Said
Pages: 432, Edition: 1st Vintage Books Ed, Paperback, Vintage
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Vietnam: A History
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Author: Stanley Karnow
Pages: 784, Edition: 2, Paperback, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa
Author: E. B. Sledge
Pages: 352, Paperback, Oxford University Press, USA
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The Search for Modern China
Author: Jonathan D. Spence
In this widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. Praised as "a miracle of readability and scholarly authority," (Jonathan Mirsky) <em>The Search for Modern...
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Rating:  42 reviews
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Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam
Author: John A. Nagl
Invariably, armies are accused of preparing to fight the previous war. In<em> Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife</em>, Lieutenant Colonel John A. Nagl—a veteran of both Operation Desert Storm and the current conflict in...
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China: Fragile Superpower: How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise
Author: Susan L. Shirk
Pages: 336, Hardcover, Oxford University Press, USA
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Japan Rising: The Resurgence of Japanese Power And Purpose
Author: Kenneth B. Pyle
Japan is on the verge of a sea change. After more than fifty years of national pacifism and isolation including the "lost decade" of the 1990s, Japan is quietly, stealthily awakening. As Japan prepares to become a major player in the...
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Author: Ilan Pappe
Pages: 256, Hardcover, Oneworld Publications
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The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq
Author: Patrick Cockburn
<strong>A profound and personal journey to the heart of a shattered nation.</strong><br>In March 2003, Patrick Cockburn traveled secretly to Iraq just before the invasion, and has covered the war from Baghdad ever since. In...
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From Beirut to Jerusalem (Updated with a New Chapter)
Author: Thomas L. Friedman
Winner of the 1989 National Book Award for non-fiction, this bestseller is a thought-provoking book written about the middle East. Thomas L. Friedman drew on his ten years in the Middle East to write a book that The Wall Street Journal called \a...
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Rating: 177 reviews
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The Places In Between
Author: Rory Stewart
Pages: 320, Paperback, Harvest Books
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A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility
Author: Taner Akcam
Pages: 496, Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
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The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty: Delhi, 1857
Author: William Dalrymple
Pages: 534, Hardcover, Knopf
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Author: Iris Chang
In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Nanjing) and within weeks not only looted and burned...
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Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
Author: David Shulman
<div>For decades, we’ve been shocked by images of violent clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. But for all their power, those images leave us at a loss: from our vantage at home, it’s hard for...
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An Enormous Crime: The Definitive Account of American POWs Abandoned in Southeast Asia
Author: Elizabeth Stewart, Bill Hendon
<div><div><i>The dramatic history of living American soldiers left in Vietnam, and the first full account of the circumstances that left them there<br></i> <br><i>An Enormous Crime</i> is nothing less...
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King, Kaiser, Tsar: Three Royal Cousins Who Led the World to War
Author: Catrine Clay
<div><div><div>The extraordinary family story of George V, Wilhelm II, and Nicholas II: they were tied to one another by history, and history would ultimately tear them apart.<br> <br>Known among their families as Georgie,...
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Lenin's Private War: The Voyage of the Philosophy Steamer and the Exile of the Intelligentsia
Author: Lesley Chamberlain
<div><div>In 1922, Lenin personally drew up a list of some 160 ‘undesirable’ intellectuals – mostly philosophers, academics, scientists and journalists – to be deported from the new Soviet State....
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