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The Moro War
How America Battled a Muslim Insurgency in the Philippine Jungle, 1902-1913
James R. Arnold
Bloomsbury Press
As the global war on terror enters its second decade, the United States military is engaged with militant Islamic insurgents on multiple fronts. But the...
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Hungry Ghosts
Mao's Secret Famine
Jasper Becker
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In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the Chinese people suffered what may have been the worst famine in history. Over thirty million perished in a grain shortage...
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Golden Boy
Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood
Martin Booth
Picador
At seven years old, Martin Booth found himself with all of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in 1952. This is his memoir of that youth, a...
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The Koreans
Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies
Michael Breen
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"Michael Breen gives readers an insight into the history and character of a complex people which helps us assess how they might deal with the current complex period in their development."—
Catherine Lee, Seoul correspondent,
The Economist
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A Rumor of War
Philip Caputo
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The classic Vietnam memoir, as relevant today as it was almost thirty years ago. In March of 1965, Marine Lieutenent Philip J. Caputo landed at Da Nang...
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The Girl from Purple Mountain
Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America
May-lee Chai and Winberg Chai
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"This is an intricately orchestrated cross-generational memoir, and one that is particularly successful in linking the world of China in the first half of the twentieth century to the opportunities and ambiguities of those Chinese who grew up as Americans. It is a subtle book that resonates in the mind as well as being a true family history that spans moods and generations."—
Jonathan Spence, author of
The Search for Modern China
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Sterling Professor of History, Yale University
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The Island of Seven Cities
Where the Chinese Settled When They Discovered America
Paul Chiasson
St. Martin's Griffin
In 2003, Paul Chiasson climbed a mountain he never explored on the island where he grew up. Cape Breton, one of the oldest points of exploration in the...
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Mao's Great Famine
The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-1962
Frank Dikötter
Walker & Company
\u0022Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and...
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The Lost Executioner
A Story of the Khmer Rouge
Nic Dunlop
Walker & Company
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An Unexpected Light
Travels in Afghanistan
Jason Elliot
Picador
"The most sustained firsthand description of life in Afghanistan to be produced by a foreign observer in recent years . . . Exciting."—
Richard Bernstein,
The New York Times
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As China Goes, So Goes the World
How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything
Karl Gerth
Hill and Wang
"Gerth author of
China Made: Consumer Culture and the Creation of the Nation
, does much to redress the imbalance and to point out the potential influence of Chinese consumerism, not only on China but on the rest of the world. The book is both informative and entertaining. Although supported by input from published sources, the text is largely the result of insightful observations of the author, who lived, studied, and traveled extensively in China. The book draws parallels between expanding consumerism in China and corresponding developments in other countries such as the US. However, Gerth is careful in identifying unique aspects of China's embrace of domestic consumption. The book contains extensive source notes, readings, and Web sites for further investigation. The writing style is reader friendly and can be appreciated by a broad spectrum of readers who have even a passing interest in understanding the growing importance of China as a world power. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readership levels."—
W. C. Struning, emeritus, Seton Hall University,
Choice
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The Second World War
A Complete History
Martin Gilbert
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A "magisterial" (The New York Times) single-volume history of WWII It began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939. By the time it came...
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The Ruling Caste
Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj
David Gilmour
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
"Gilmour captures the spirit of life in the sharply defined spheres of Queen Victoria's court and the government in London, the viceroy's circle in South Asia, and the district offices where British civil servants met Indian subjects on a daily basis. He skillfully depicts the peculiar mixture of proper manners and gentlemanly practices and the legal and bureaucratic standards of one of the world's great civil services . . . The title of the book succinctly captures his idea that the British colonizers operated as though they were a part of the Indian caste system—thus garnering the mystique of authority without having to rely unduly on force."—
Foreign Affairs
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The Lions of Iwo Jima
Major General Fred Haynes (USMC-ret) and James A. Warren
A John Macrae/Holt Paperbacks Book
“In 1945 my father John Bradley and other members of Combat Team 28 raised a flag on Iwo Jima. General Fred Haynes is the highest-ranking surviving officer from that heroic unit. In 1945 General Haynes helped America place a flag atop Mt. Suribachi. Now with
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James Bradley, author of
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Flyboys
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South Wind Changing
Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh
Graywolf Press Paper
A Time magazine "Best Book" of 1994 This is the compelling personal narrative of Jade Ngoc Quang Huynh, who was born in South Vietnam in 1958. He survived...
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Raj
The Making and Unmaking of British India
Lawrence James
St. Martin's Griffin
In less that one hundred years, the British made themselves the masters of India. They ruled for another hundred, leaving behind the independent nations of...
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The Idea of India
Sunil Khilnani; With a New Introduction by the Author
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks
The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of...
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Genghis Khan
Life, Death, and Resurrection
John Man
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
Genghis Khan is one of history's immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a...
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Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader
North Korea and the Kim Dynasty
Bradley K. Martin
St. Martin's Griffin/Thomas Dunne Books
"As useful a set of insights into life in North Korea as can be found anywhere . . . Accumulates persuasive evidence about the indoctrination of children, the brutality of the gulags, and the persistent famine that began in the 1990s . . . [Kim Jong Il] may be a brutal despot presiding over a corrupt regime, but Martin is convinced that serious negotiations are possible."—
Warren I. Cohen,
Los Angeles Times Book Review
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The Last Days of Old Beijing
Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed
Michael Meyer
Walker & Company
“Michael Meyer’s voracious curiosity has led him deep, deep into a vanishing world that other visitors and foreign correspondents almost all see only from a taxi window. He comes at it with a wide knowledge of history, a thirst for people’s life stories, a novelist’s ability to evoke a social universe, and an Arctic explorer’s willingness to live through a sub-zero winter with little heat and the nearest communal toilet far down a snowy lane. This is a stunning, compassionate feat of reportage which will long endure.”—
Adam Hochschild, author of
King Leopold’s Ghost
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Bury the Chains
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Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths
Shigeru Mizuki
Drawn and Quarterly
A landmark publishing event of one of Japan’s most famous cartoonists Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous...
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Where China Meets India
Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia
Thant Myint-U
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Thant Myint-U’s Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, and timely book about a remote region that is suddenly becoming a geopolitical center of the...
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The Battle of Savo Island
Richard F. Newcomb
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From the author of the bestselling Abandon Ship! comes a classic work of World War II history. Richard F. Newcomb is one of the true masters of military...
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Tears in the Darkness
The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
Michael Norman and Elizabeth M. Norman
Picador
"Ben Steele, a young cowboy on his home range in Montana who had enlisted as a soldier in World War II, was caught up in the battle for Bataan in the Philippines, then in the ensuing death march as a prisoner of the Japanese, which he barely survived. Beginning with harrowing sketches of that experience, and in the course of various adventures and misadventures, he continued to draw and paint, and has since become a truly distinguished artist of the West.
Tears in the Darkness
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Peter Matthiessen, author of
Shadow Country
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