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The Burma Campaign by Frank McLynn
epub |eng | 2011-10-22 | Author:Frank McLynn

13 Even as Operation THURSDAY began and the campaign in the Arakan continued, simultaneously the Japanese opened a massive offensive in what would prove to be a four-month battle, the ...
( Category: Military October 23,2018 )
The Real Tenko by Mark Felton
epub |eng | 2011-09-18 | Author:Mark Felton

During the same month on New Guinea a large party of Australian soldiers and airmen was captured and executed by the Japanese. Two female missionaries were captured alongside them. They ...
( Category: Asia October 23,2018 )
Cold War by Fink Carole K.;
epub |eng | 2018-10-22 | Author:Fink, Carole K.;

Vietnam The Vietnam War remained the most critical issue in US-Soviet relations. Early in the Nixon administration, the president had signaled that these could not improve without Soviet aid in ...
( Category: Americas October 23,2018 )
The Peranakan Chinese Home by Ronald G. Knapp
epub |eng | | Author:Ronald G. Knapp

Although narrower than many Reception Halls in larger residences, the one dominating the headquarters of the Persatuan Peranakan Cina Melaka (Peranakan Chinese Association of Malacca) on Heeren Street nonetheless maintains ...
( Category: Encyclopedias & Subject Guides October 23,2018 )
The Illustrated History of the Snowman by Bob Eckstein
epub |eng | | Author:Bob Eckstein

Prince Wilhelm and Prince Louis Ferdinand of Prussia (1913). Kansas, ca. 1970s. COURTESY OF GRAY JUSTIS 1931 photograph. Mary, however, had one of the first small cameras with short exposure, ...
( Category: Americas October 21,2018 )
Undaunted by Zoya Phan
epub |eng | 2010-10-20 | Author:Zoya Phan

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN THE NEW VILLAGE Uncle Joe took us directly to my father’s house. The dirt road passed through the village marketplace and petered out at the edge of a ...
( Category: Asia October 21,2018 )
0812978552 Paradise by Unknown
epub | | 2016-07-28 | Author:Unknown

Just Think! The television program opened with the requisite South-Asian music jingle and the name of the show flashed across the screen—Zara Sochiye (“Just Think” in Urdu). The host, sitting ...
( Category: Russia October 16,2018 )
Japan the Ultimate Samurai Guide by Alexander Bennett
epub |eng | 2018-04-02 | Author:Alexander Bennett

Yamaoka Tesshu was a famous calligrapher, Zen master and formidable swordsman. His students influenced the development of modern Kendo. Not only was Tesshu an intimidating fencer, he was a key ...
( Category: Asia October 13,2018 )
Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas by Han Fook Kwang & Warren Fernandez & Sumiko Tan
epub |eng | 2015-04-14 | Author:Han Fook Kwang & Warren Fernandez & Sumiko Tan [Fernandez, Warren]

This is probably the most important political speech Lee Kuan Yew made in his early years as a student in Cambridge. He was speaking at the Malayan Forum, a political ...
( Category: Leaders & Notable People October 12,2018 )
Indonesia, Etc. by Elizabeth Pisani
epub |eng | | Author:Elizabeth Pisani

I set off to explore the island, stopping in at the tourism department’s office in search of a map. Behind a wall of large, faded photographs of ‘Tourism Objects’ pinned ...
( Category: Writing, Research & Publishing Guides October 12,2018 )
The Red Guard by The Red Guard (fb2)
epub |eng | | Author:The Red Guard (fb2)

Chapter 6 They remained in their luxurious hole for three days. During this time they ate when they pleased, slept when they pleased, made love when they pleased — and ...
( Category: Asia October 12,2018 )
One Hundred Unorthodox Strategies by Ralph D. Sawyer
epub |eng | 2011-04-19 | Author:Ralph D. Sawyer

50 Danger Tactical Discussion Whenever engaging an enemy in battle, if you should suddenly penetrate terrain where you are in danger of perishing, you should arouse your generals and officers, ...
( Category: Military October 11,2018 )
The Earth Is the Lord's by Caldwell Taylor;
epub |eng | 2018-10-10 | Author:Caldwell, Taylor;

Chapter 11 Temujin sent his old foster father, Toghrul Khan, the head of Targoutai, wrapped in silk in a basket of wrought silver. With this engaging gift was enclosed a ...
( Category: Asia October 11,2018 )
Empress by Ruby Lal
epub |eng | 2018-06-21 | Author:Ruby Lal

Jahangir’s father had built a sturdy stone palace-fort in Srinagar on a hill called the Hari Parbat, overlooking the lovely Dal Lake, approximately four miles long and three miles wide, ...
( Category: Historical October 7,2018 )
Gandhi by Ramachandra Guha
epub |eng | 2018-10-01 | Author:Ramachandra Guha

Gandhi printed large chunks of the letter in Harijan, leaving out, however, the references to Gokhale, Bernard Shaw et al., as well as the (even more telling) sentence pointing out ...
( Category: Asia October 4,2018 )

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