epub, mobi |eng | 2011-03-28 | Author:Joseph Lelyveld [Lelyveld, Joseph]

He may have meant to offer Ambedkar “the gentlest treatment,” may not have been thinking of Ambedkar at all, when he led off with a political barb, noting in the ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Stephan Talty [Talty, Stephan]

After a few hours of exchanging gunfire with the Chinese at the transport station, Soepa realized the PLA was winning. “Their bullets were finding their mark and many were killed ...

epub |eng | 2004-06-11 | Author:Frances Osborne [Osborne,Frances]

Toby and his “wives,” Chefoo, 1928. Lilla is on the left. The waterfront, Shanghai As Toby was saluted into the Shanghai harbor on the prow of a battleship, Ada and ...

mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

Esen had united the Mongols and defeated the Muslim ruler and the Ming emperor, but in the most important confrontation of his career, he could not overcome the determined will ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-11 | Author:Gretel Ehrlich

At the island school, now an evacuation center for those who lost their houses, we’re met by a young Japanese man wearing a Yankees jersey, number 55, Hideki Matsui’s number. ...

epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:John Rabe

15 JANUARY As is obvious from the letters that arrived for me yesterday from Shanghai via the German embassy and to which on 14 January I replied to the management ...

epub |eng | 2013-05-21 | Author:Raman, B. [Raman, B.]

CHAPTER XIV Geneva And Bofors I was posted in Geneva as Counsellor in the Permanent Mission of India (PMI) to the UN organizations based in Geneva from April 1985 to ...

epub, mobi | | 2010-10-22 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

The Great Raid on Russia and its crucial encounter on the Kalka river had extraordinary consequences. As the Mongols rode back to rejoin Genghis on the Irtish river, they brought ...

epub |eng | 2008-03-02 | Author:Patwant Singh

Coping with his women must have been no less daunting a task for Ranjit Singh than dealing with the many adversaries he faced during his eventful reign. They numbered literally ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-01 | Author:Rafia Zakaria [Zakaria, Rafia]

AUGUST 14–17, 1988 We always woke early on Independence Day to the sound of the flag flapping proudly against the post we had attached to the upstairs balcony a solid ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2014-06-18 | Author:John Man [Man, John]

fn1 Golden because Genghis’s family was the ‘Golden Clan’, and Horde because the Mongolian ord (or ordon, in an alternative form) meant a palace, which back then was a tent ...

epub |eng | | Author:Chin, Annping

YUN-HO Yun-ho (left), with Yuan-ho, when she was a college student in Shanghai. WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD, Yun-ho did not like love scenes in an opera, or scenes with ...

epub |eng | | Author:Asne Seierstad

The three boys have been driving for a couple of hours when they catch up with the backlog of pilgrims. The queue is immovable. It has started to snow. Fog ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-29 | Author:Val Wang

Part Four Chapter Eighteen Fifty Years Later My parents looked wordlessly around their hotel room, taking in the sagging beds and peeling paint. They had arrived a week before their ...

epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Ramachandra Guha & Jay Taylor & Rana Mitter & Odd Arne Westad & Srinath Raghavan & Farzana Shaikh & James Rush & Michael D. Barr & Jian Chen & Sophie Quinn-Judge [Guha, Ramachandra & Taylor, Jay & Mitter, Rana & Westad, Odd Arne & Raghavan, Srinath & Shaikh, Farzana & Rush, James & Barr, Michael D. & Chen, Jian & Quinn-Judge, Sophie]

Guiding Democracy Sukarno arrived back in Indonesia in October following the second of his whirlwind tours refreshed and confident. But what he had seen also disturbed him. Much of the ...