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Gandhi 1914-1948: The Years That Changed the World by Guha Ramachandra
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Guha, Ramachandra [Guha, Ramachandra]

IV Gandhi read The Annihilation of Caste soon after it was published. Meeting a deputation of the Depressed Classes in Bangalore on 10 June, he remarked that ‘when Dr. Ambedkar ...
( Category: Historical October 1,2018 )
How to Live Japanese by Yazawa Yutaka
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Yazawa, Yutaka [Yazawa, Yutaka]

From fast food to main course Tempura (天麩羅), that quintessentially Japanese deep-fried dish, actually has its origins in Portugal. The cooking method of deep-frying with a batter arrived in Japan ...
( Category: Asia September 30,2018 )
Vietnam, An Epic Tragedy by Max Hastings
epub |eng | 2018-07-16 | Author:Max Hastings

O mountain and river, how beautiful, When the moon lights the hills, clouds fly beneath the feet. But Luc also affected a red scarf with the words ‘Pledge Resolutely to ...
( Category: Asia September 26,2018 )
Malayan Emergency by Gerry van Tonder
epub |eng | 2017-09-24 | Author:Gerry van Tonder

From September 1949 to the end of June 1950, platoon commander Sub-Lieutenant Nigel Thomas Bagnall of the 1st Battalion, the Green Howards, was engaged in intensive counter-terrorist operations in the ...
( Category: Asia September 25,2018 )
Buddhism and Medicine by C. Pierce Salguero
epub |eng | | Author:C. Pierce Salguero

( Category: Alternative Medicine September 25,2018 )
Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes by Yoneyama Lisa
azw3 |eng | 2016-07-14 | Author:Yoneyama, Lisa [Yoneyama, Lisa]

Perils and Possibilities Asian/American investments in knowledge production and representations of the Asia-Pacific War and Japanese imperial violence are not limited to juridical channels but have increasingly proliferated in other ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 25,2018 )
Taj Mahal by Diana Preston
epub |eng | 2009-09-24 | Author:Diana Preston [Preston, Diana]

IN THE MIDST of death and desolation, replete with kites and vultures arcing over the barren landscape, Shah Jahan and the fertile Mumtaz conceived another child. Mumtaz spent some of ...
( Category: Architecture September 24,2018 )
Ghosts and Shadows by Phil Ball
epub |eng | 2015-11-03 | Author:Phil Ball [Ball, Phil]

* Pseudonym. Chapter 10 Hot LZ, Friendly Fire Early morning on July 17, 1968, the troop lift began. As we nervously awaited our turn, I saw young Marines writing letters ...
( Category: Military September 24,2018 )
Great Wall in 50 Objects by William Lindesay
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:William Lindesay [Lindesay, William]

32. Sixteenth Century Typos Bluestone stele bearing construction records When I worked as an editor at the Xinhua News Agency in central Beijing in the late 1990s, my role as ...
( Category: Asia September 24,2018 )
Central Asia in World History_New Oxford World History by Peter B. Golden
epub |eng | 2011-01-26 | Author:Peter B. Golden [Golden, Peter B.]

CHAPTER SEVEN The Later Chinggisids, Temür, and the Timurid Renaissance In the fragmenting Chinggisid world, Mongols were a privileged minority, one increasingly assimilated by their subjects. As al-’Umarî, an Arab ...
( Category: Asia September 24,2018 )
Admiral Togo by Jonathan Clements
epub |eng | 2018-02-02 | Author:Jonathan Clements

10 Port Arthur Tōgō’s journey home was not without incident. He took a zig-zag route across the Bohai Gulf to Zhifu and back towards Korea, seemingly patrolling the old demarcation ...
( Category: Asia September 24,2018 )
Road to Disaster by Brian Vandemark
epub |eng | 2018-08-18 | Author:Brian Vandemark

Rostow had no hesitation about emphasizing his own opinions in the paperwork he submitted to the president. He had been secretly promoting himself for months through starry-eyed back-channel memos to ...
( Category: Military September 19,2018 )
The Man Who Would Be King by Ben Macintyre
epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:Ben Macintyre

10 THE MAHARAJA’S AMBASSADOR Dost Mohammed Khan demanded the return of the rich and fertile province of Peshawar, and sent an elegantly aggressive warning to Ranjit Singh: “If out of ...
( Category: Asia September 19,2018 )
The Other Cold War by Kwon Heonik;
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Kwon, Heonik;

The 4.3 Incident has only recently become a publicly acknowledged historical reality among the islanders, in contrast to past decades during which the subject remained strictly taboo in public discourse.7 ...
( Category: Asia September 18,2018 )
The Korean War by Stueck William;
epub |eng | | Author:Stueck, William;

PERSPECTIVES AND PROSPECTS On the eve of reaching agreement with the Communists on item 2, Ridgway told Washington that “our future bargaining potential” has been “substantially weakened.” “It is particularly ...
( Category: Military September 18,2018 )

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