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Princess Masako by Ben Hills
epub |eng | 2018-11-16 | Author:Ben Hills

( Category: Asia November 18,2018 )
Korea by John Melady
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:John Melady

10 THE GREAT IMPOSTER While Ottawa was trying to decide whether Canadian ground troops would be sent to fight in Korea, the Royal Canadian Navy had not been idle. The ...
( Category: Military November 17,2018 )
Modern Hinduism in Text and Context by Lavanya Vemsani
epub |eng | | Author:Lavanya Vemsani

Figure 9.1The Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s symbols, respectively. Used with permission from the Aurobindo āśram. Figure 9.2The union of both symbols used as the logo for the Sri Aurobindo Center ...
( Category: Hinduism November 16,2018 )
Building China: Informal Work and the New Precariat by Sarah Swider
azw3 |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Sarah Swider [Swider, Sarah]

Fig. 5.2. A worker hauls bricks for this one-day job. Photo by Marcin Szczepanksi. Jirong’s story highlights the ways in which bosses take advantage of migrants’ vulnerability. They know that ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 16,2018 )
Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Created Its Own Lost Generation (Vintage Departures) by Zielenziger Michael
epub |eng | 2009-05-04 | Author:Zielenziger, Michael [Zielenziger, Michael]

These days Kiyoko prefers returning home each evening to the same small bedroom she had as a child, just a few feet from her parents' room. The comforts of a ...
( Category: Politics & Government November 11,2018 )
War's End by Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney USAF
epub |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Maj. Gen. Charles W. Sweeney, USAF

We got the green light to commence practice missions over the neighboring islands of Rota and Guguan, which were still occupied by the Japanese. Our forces had bypassed those islands ...
( Category: Asia November 10,2018 )
Yangtze Showdown by Brian Izzard
epub |eng | 2015-02-17 | Author:Brian Izzard

Admiral Brind did not initially tell the Admiralty or his second-incommand, Madden, about the secret code that had been devised by his flag lieutenant. He was uneasy about keeping this ...
( Category: Military November 7,2018 )
Secret Commandos by John L. Plaster
epub |eng | | Author:John L. Plaster

10 Operation Ashtray Two would assemble a twelve-man team of eight Americans and four indigenous soldiers. From my RT California that meant Sergeant First Class Rex Jaco and Staff Sergeants ...
( Category: Military November 3,2018 )
Rampage by James M. Scott
epub |eng | | Author:James M. Scott

AMERICAN TROOPS on the ground saw a far different battle than the artillerymen perched atop the National City Bank of New York. The retreating Japanese had left a trail of ...
( Category: Asia October 31,2018 )
A Culinary History of Taipei by Steven Crook & Katy Hui-wen Hung
epub |eng | 2018-08-27 | Author:Steven Crook & Katy Hui-wen Hung

AN EGG A DAY The availability of cheap, soy-based poultry feed led to a massive expansion of egg production and consumption. The number of eggs eaten per capita is eight ...
( Category: Cooking Education & Reference October 26,2018 )
Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) by Thomas Barfield
azw3, pdf |eng | 2010-03-28 | Author:Thomas Barfield [Barfield, Thomas]

For all practical purposes this succession contest ended when the British formally recognized Nadir’s regime in mid-November 1929, and began providing him with money and arms to stabilize his government. ...
( Category: Asia October 25,2018 )
Reassessing Pearl Harbor: Scapegoats, a False Hero and the Myth of Surprise Attack by James Johns
epub |eng | 2017-02-24 | Author:James Johns [Johns, James]

The addendum to Proposal B assured everyone that if the main points could be agreed upon, and if peace in the Pacific became a reality, Japan would withdraw her troops ...
( Category: Asia October 24,2018 )
The Impossible State, Updated Edition by Victor Cha
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Victor Cha

CLINTON: “NON-HOSTILE INTENT” “A million, a hundred billion, and a trillion.” When then–American commander of U.S. Forces Korea, General Gary Luck, was asked to clarify what he meant, the general ...
( Category: Military October 24,2018 )
5327 by Mark Rowe
epub |eng | 2013-09-05 | Author:Mark Rowe

II Businesses could hardly carry on ‘business as usual’, if what had been their markets, or source of materials, were now enemy territory. Even in Sudan, Frank Balfour soon noticed ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2018 )
Children of the Camps by Mark Felton
epub |eng | 2011-06-12 | Author:Mark Felton

8 Comfort Girls We were given flower names and they were pinned to our doors. They started to drag us away one by one. And I could hear all the ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2018 )

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