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The Penguin History of Modern Vietnam: A History by Christopher Goscha
mobi |eng | 2016-06-29 | Author:Christopher Goscha

10 A Tale of Two Republics INTRODUCTION In July 1963 Nguyen Tuong Tam received a summons to report to a nearby military police station to answer questions about his role ...
( Category: Military April 10,2018 )
A History of Modern Tibet, Volume 3 by Goldstein Melvyn C.;
epub |eng | | Author:Goldstein, Melvyn C.;

In the past few months, great progress was made in suppressing the rebellions. This proved that the policies issued by the Central Committee and the Provincial Party Committee were correct. ...
( Category: Asia April 10,2018 )
A Corner of a Foreign Field: The Indian History of a British Sport (New and Updated Edition) by Ramachandra Guha
epub |eng | 2015-03-03 | Author:Ramachandra Guha [Guha, Ramachandra]

IN THE THIRD WEEK of March 1940 the annual meeting of the Indian National Congress was held in Ramgarh, in Bihar. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was elected President. With the ...
( Category: Asia April 10,2018 )
Bully of Asia by Steven W. Mosher
epub |eng | 2017-11-03 | Author:Steven W. Mosher

“BELLICOSE NATIONALISM” Writing in vivid prose, Liu described with pinpoint accuracy the “bellicose nationalism” that China now exhibits at every turn and the national psyche that undergirds and sustains it. ...
( Category: Asia April 10,2018 )
The Columbia History of the Vietnam War by David L. Anderson
epub |eng | 2011-10-28 | Author:David L. Anderson

Richard Nixon had run for the office of president in 1968 claiming to be, among other things, a peace candidate. Secretly, however, he intended to deploy several military, diplomatic, and ...
( Category: Military April 10,2018 )
Somanatha by Romila Thapar
epub |eng | 2008-06-19 | Author:Romila Thapar [Thapar, Romila]

6 The Perceptions of Yet Others Parallel to the Turko-Persian versions of Mahmud’s raid on Somanatha and the Rajput epic poems, there are some other versions reflecting the more widespread ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )
Art of Not Being Governed by James C. Scott
epub |eng | 2009-04-10 | Author:James C. Scott

State-Making as a Cosmopolitan Ingathering The founders of the early padi state had to assemble their subjects from among hitherto stateless populations. And when, as so often happened, a state ...
( Category: Asia April 10,2018 )
The Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 and 1281 by Stephen Turnbull
epub |eng | | Author:Stephen Turnbull

The most famous scene in the Mongol Invasion Scrolls is this one depicting an exploding bomb bursting in front of the wounded horse of Takezaki Suenaga. These bombs, thrown by ...
( Category: Asia April 10,2018 )
China Inside Out by Bill Dodson
epub |eng | 2011-01-20 | Author:Bill Dodson

THE ARTERIES OF A NATION The flood of funds into the development of China’s transportation infrastructure accelerated a master plan to develop regions outside the Yangtze and Pearl River Deltas ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 10,2018 )
China and Japan at War 1937--1945 by Philip Jowett
epub |eng | 2016-03-30 | Author:Philip Jowett

Japanese Type 89 medium tanks trundle through an occupied northern Chinese city while the Chinese population look on. The Type 89 was a slow tank with a maximum speed of ...
( Category: Military April 10,2018 )
Sanitized Sex by Kramm Robert;
epub |eng | | Author:Kramm, Robert;

PREVENTIVE CARE: PROPHYLACTIC FACILITIES In another important public health strategy implemented to limit the spread of venereal disease among the occupation personnel and to sanitize the servicemen’s sexuality, the occupier’s ...
( Category: Asia April 9,2018 )
Brown Water, Black Berets by Thomas J. Cutler
epub |eng | | Author:Thomas J. Cutler

The USS Colleton, sister ship of the USS Benewah, at anchor as part of the Mobile Riverine Force. These ships, along with several LSTs and APLs, made up the Mobile ...
( Category: Military April 9,2018 )
The Alchemical Body: Siddha Traditions in Medieval India by David Gordon White
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:David Gordon White [White, David Gordon]

8. The Man with the Golden Finger and Gorakh’s Smithy Such legends of bodily dismemberment and restoration as that of Pūraṇ Bhagat are not wholly unique to the Nāth Siddha ...
( Category: Hinduism April 9,2018 )
Famine in North Korea by Haggard Stephan; Noland Marcus; Sen Amartya
epub |eng | 2012-01-04 | Author:Haggard, Stephan; Noland, Marcus; Sen, Amartya

China China’s relations with North Korea are shrouded in patron-client privilege. Information on such basic issues as the prices that North Korea pays for imports from China are unavailable, and ...
( Category: Politics & Government April 9,2018 )
North Korea by Dualta Roughneen
epub |eng | | Author:Dualta Roughneen

* * * I should really be able to speak Korean much better by now. I have been a bit lazy with the language, and only have a few sentences. ...
( Category: Asia April 9,2018 )

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