Southeast Asia
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The Fabulous Flotilla: Scotland’s Adventure on the Rivers of Burma
$24.95 Read moreThe ‘Fabulous Flotilla’, called the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company in colonial Burma, was the largest privately-owned fleet of ships in the world. It was an entirely Scottish enterprise with nearly all it
- Author: Strachan, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1849955328
- Language: English
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An Illustrated History of the Philippines
$39.95 Read moreBeginning with a definition of who the people of The Philippines are, this fully illustrated history then tracks back to describe the prehistory of the country through to 1500 AD. The next two chapter
- Author: Canoy, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: May 23 2019
- ISBN10: 1912081962
- Language: English
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Scary Monsters: A Novel in Two Parts
$17.95 Read moreFinalist for the 2022 Kirkus Prize for Fiction
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Shortlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Shortlisted for the 2023 Rathbones Folio Prize
Longlisted for the 2022 Gordon Burn Prize (UK)- Author: de Kretser, Michelle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1646221095
- Language: English
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Tale of the Dreamer’s Son
$19.99 Read moreBy the author of the international bestseller Evening Is The Whole Day, this novel set in Malaysia will appeal to readers of Arundhati Roy and Kiran Desai
In what was once a Scottish tea planter’s man
- Author: Samarasan, Preeta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1642861200
- Language: English
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A Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War
$56.00 Read moreA Danger Shared: A Journalist’s Glimpses of a Continent at War provides a searing visual history of wartime Asia as seen by foreign correspondent Melville Jacoby. In this meticulously curated collecti… [more below]
- Author: Jacoby, Melville
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: April 08 2024
- ISBN10: 9887963992
- Language: English
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The Disappearing ACT: The Impossible Case of Mh370
$16.99 Read more‘People often say that non-fiction books read like fast-moving thrillers, but this one genuinely does… This is a splendid book – and highly recommended.’ Daily Mail
A remarkable piece of investiga
- Author: De Changy, Florence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0008381550
- Language: English
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In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam
$20.00 Read more#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER. The definitive insider’s account of American policy making in Vietnam.
“Can anyone remember a public official with the courage to confess error and explain where he and his cou- Author: McNamara, Robert S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 19 1996
- ISBN10: 0679767495
- Language: English
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Vietnam and America: The Most Comprehensive Documented History of the Vietnam War
$24.00 Add to cartNo single event since World War II has marked this country’s foreign policy and national image as deeply as did the war in Vietnam. Vietnam and America is a complete history of the war, as documented … [more below]
- Author: Gettleman, Marvin E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: July 14 1995
- ISBN10: 0802133622
- Language: English
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The Age of Goodbyes
$17.95 Read moreBy one of Southeast Asia’s most exciting writers, The Age of Goodbyes is a wildly inventive account of family history, political turmoil, and the redemptive grace of storytelling.
In 1969, in the wake … [more below]
- Author: Li, Zi Shu
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1952177693
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of Southeast Asia
$14.95 Read moreFrom the early Christian era in Europe, Southeast Asia was known as the “Land of Gold.” It is a region blessed with a rich diversity of cultures, peoples, and scenery. A Traveller’s History of Southea… [more below]
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Barwise, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1566564395
- Language: English
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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
$58.33 Read moreA multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam
On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in D- Author: Goscha, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0691180164
- Language: English
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The Road to Dien Bien Phu: A History of the First War for Vietnam
$27.95 Read moreA multifaceted history of Ho Chi Minh’s climactic victory over French colonial might that foreshadowed America’s experience in Vietnam
On May 7, 1954, when the bullets stopped and the air stilled in D- Author: Goscha, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 0691228647
- Language: English
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Corregidor 1945: Repossessing the Rock
$25.00 Read moreA detailed and fascinating exploration of the 1945 US combined land, naval and air operation to retake Corregidor and the other Japanese-held islands in Manila Bay from a determined and well-entrenche
- Series: Campaign #325
- Author: Lardas, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854691
- Language: English
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The Dutch-Indonesian War 1945-49: Armies of the Indonesian War of Independence
$20.00 Read moreHighly detailed and colourful, this account illustrates the struggle of Indonesian forces in their War of Independence against the Netherlands, following the surrender of occupying Japanese forces in
- Series: Men-At-Arms (Osprey) #550
- Author: Lohnstein, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1472854748
- Language: English
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A Refugee’s American Dream: From the Killing Fields of Cambodia to the U.S. Secret Service
$30.00 Read more“I saw many killed. I almost starved. But I escaped to refugee camps in Thailand and eventually made it to the U.S.” Thus begins Leth Oun’s poignant and vivid memoir. A survivor of the Cambodian Killi
- Author: Oun, Leth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: February 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1439923361
- Language: English
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Peace and Prisoners of War: A South Vietnamese Memoir of the Vietnam War
$28.95 Add to cartAmerican discussions of the Vietnam War tend to gloss over the period from 1972 to the final North Vietnamese offensive in 1975. But on the battlefields, these were brutal times for America’s South Vi… [more below]
- Author: Nhat Nam, Phan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1682476146
- Language: English
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France’s War in Indochina: Volume 1: The Tiger Versus the Elephant, 1946-1949
$29.95 Read more“…a very interesting book with insights into how French forces dealt with Viet Minh tactics and strategies, anticipating almost the same problems faced by American forces in Vietnam nearly twenty ye… [more below]
- Series: Asia@War
- Author: Rookes, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 88
- Publish Date: July 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1804510149
- Language: English
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Kissinger’s Betrayal: How America Lost the Vietnam War
$32.95 Add to cart“Kissinger’s Betrayal is arguably the most important single source published in decades for understanding why America went to war in Vietnam, why doing so was important, and what went wrong and ultima
- Author: Young, Stephen B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1637553595
- Language: English
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An Honorable Exit
$23.99 Read moreA Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
From the award-winning author of The Order of the Day, a piercing account of the lesser-known conflict preceding the Vietnam War that dealt a fatal blow to French- Author: Vuillard, Éric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 163542352X
- Language: English
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The Long Reckoning: A Story of War, Peace, and Redemption in Vietnam
$35.00 Read moreThe moving story of how a small group of people–including two Vietnam veterans–forced the U.S. government to take responsibility for the ongoing horrors–agent orange and unexploded munitions–infli… [more below]
- Author: Black, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0593534107
- Language: English
