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Korea by Michael Pembroke
epub |eng | 2018-01-10 | Author:Michael Pembroke

A Shattered Land MacArthur was right about the devastating effect of the bombing in North Korea—‘a slaughter such as I have never heard of in the history of mankind’. By ...
( Category: Asia May 28,2018 )
Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War by Bruce Henderson
epub |eng | 2010-04-02 | Author:Bruce Henderson

8 “WE’LL RUN OUT OF PILOTS” On the evening of February 7, 1966, a secret message was sent by Ranger CO Leo McCuddin to the secretary of the navy (SECNAV), ...
( Category: Military May 27,2018 )
The Cage: The Fight for Sri Lanka and the Last Days of the Tamil Tigers by Weiss Gordon
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-04 | Author:Weiss, Gordon [Weiss, Gordon]

The Sri Lankan army had failed to prick a hole in the first so-called No Fire Zone that ideally would have drained the battlefield of most civilians. The battle continued ...
( Category: Politics & Government May 23,2018 )
The Taliban Revival by Hassan Abbas
epub |eng | | Author:Hassan Abbas

The deadly rise of the Pakistani Taliban The emergence of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in December 2007 was a deadly new addition to the alphabet soup of terrorist organizations in ...
( Category: Asia May 21,2018 )
When Broken Glass Floats by Chanrithy Him
epub |eng | 2000-05-21 | Author:Chanrithy Him

9 Now I Know the Answer Under the Khmer Rouge, reunions are precious but brief, appearing like a sudden summer shower that opens the sweet plumeria, and ending just as ...
( Category: World May 21,2018 )
India: A Civilization of Differences: The Ancient Tradition of Universal Tolerance by Alain Daniélou
azw |eng | 2005-07-05 | Author:Alain Daniélou [Daniélou, Alain]

AHIR LANGUAGE AND TRADITIONS From a cultural point of view, the Ahirs belong to the same culture as the dark-skinned heroes of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Rama and Krishna, ...
( Category: Anthropology May 18,2018 )
A Brief History of India by Alain Daniélou
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-02-11 | Author:Alain Daniélou [Daniélou, Alain]

THE GURJARA-PRATIHARAS The Gurjara-Pratiharas of Kanauj (to the northwest of modern Kanpur) are an important Rajput dynasty that attained imperial dimensions, similar to that of Samudragupta or Harsha. It has ...
( Category: Anthropology May 18,2018 )
Blue Mauritius by Helen Morgan
epub |eng | 2015-04-27 | Author:Helen Morgan

Fred Melville’s Rare Stamps: How to Recognise Them, London, 1922, featuring, undoubtedly, a ‘Post Office Mauritius’ on the cover. The Australian Stamp Journal had been told that a woman in ...
( Category: Asia May 18,2018 )
Japan by Boye Lafayette De Mente
epub |eng | 2018-02-26 | Author:Boye Lafayette De Mente

Kata in Politics Not surprisingly, the form and order of Japanese politics follow traditional patterns of behavior, meaning that the system is based on groupings (factions) rather than true party ...
( Category: Asia May 17,2018 )
The Island of Seven Cities by Paul Chiasson
epub |eng | 2006-05-15 | Author:Paul Chiasson [Chiasson, Paul]

It was on this aerial photograph of Cape Dauphin, taken in June 1953, that I spotted the ruins for the first time. I was struck by its size. I could ...
( Category: Asia May 15,2018 )
Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt
epub |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:Stephen R. Platt

* * * — Though the voyage of the Lord Amherst had little effect in China beyond causing a flurry of agitated reports to the throne from coastal officials, in ...
( Category: Asia May 15,2018 )
The Confucian Political Imagination by Eske J. Møllgaard
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Eske J. Møllgaard

The Selfish West Tu begins his essay “Beyond the Enlightenment Mentality” by acknowledging the importance of Enlightenment values such as “liberty, equality, human rights, the dignity of the individual, respect ...
( Category: Philosophy May 12,2018 )
An Armenian Mediterranean by Kathryn Babayan & Michael Pifer
epub |eng | | Author:Kathryn Babayan & Michael Pifer

Intertwined Histories: The Balkans The decade between the end of the Balkan Wars in 1913 and the establishment of the Republic of Turkey in 1923 witnessed a series of cataclysmic ...
( Category: Asia May 12,2018 )
Meatless Days by Sara Suleri
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-11-27 | Author:Sara Suleri

‘I have never heard a lovelier thing,’ he gravely said. I was silent then, but later in the night I think I heard again, Jesu Maria, shield her well, Hush, ...
( Category: Asia May 11,2018 )
Japan by Totman Conrad;
epub |eng | | Author:Totman, Conrad;

By Illegal Felling 1,826,783 By Natural Causes 2,010,957 Thus natural damage – mostly due to high winds, heavy snowfall or lightning strikes – ruined less than a third as many ...
( Category: Asia May 9,2018 )

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