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Without You, There Is No Us by Suki Kim
epub |eng | 2014-10-14 | Author:Suki Kim [Kim, Suki]

12 THE DAYS LEADING UP TO THE END OF the summer semester were a jumble. There was much picture taking and sporting competition, as though the incessant activities would distract ...
( Category: Memoirs September 5,2017 )
With The Old Breed by Sledge E. B
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Sledge, E. B. [Sledge, E. B.]

proof that I could trust and depend completely on the Marine on each side of me and on our leadership; proof that I could use my weapons and equipment efficiently ...
( Category: Military September 5,2017 )
The Chinese Typewriter by Thomas Mullaney
epub |eng | 2017-09-29 | Author:Thomas Mullaney

Between Technolinguistic Worlds: Kana, Kanji, and the Ambivalent History of Japanese Typewriting Beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, China’s neighbor to the east began to wrestle with ...
( Category: Asia September 5,2017 )
Long Road Home: Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor by Yong Kim & Suk-Young Kim
epub |eng | 2009-06-19 | Author:Yong Kim & Suk-Young Kim [Kim, Yong & Kim, Suk-Young]

A close-up satellite image of Camp No. 14. It features the National Security Agency headquarters where Kim Yong was brought upon his arrival in 1993. Also featured is an entrance ...
( Category: Social Sciences September 4,2017 )
Lone survivor: the eyewitness account of Operation Redwing and the lost heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Luttrell Marcus & Luttrell Marcus
epub |eng | | Author:Luttrell Marcus & Luttrell Marcus [Marcus, Luttrell,]

Chapter 8 8 The Final Battle for Murphy’s Ridge The ground shook. The very few trees swayed. The noise was worse than any blast all day...This was one gigantic Taliban ...
( Category: Military September 4,2017 )
The Emperor's Codes by Michael Smith
epub |eng | 2000-09-04 | Author:Michael Smith

14 CENTRAL BUREAU'S BIG BREAK Despite Fabian's efforts to have Eric Nave sent ‘home’ to Britain as part of the terms of the Anglo-US Agreement, the Australian code-breaker had been ...
( Category: Military September 4,2017 )
The Party by Richard McGregor
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-06-07 | Author:Richard McGregor [McGregor, Richard]

Shanghai had been fêted in colonial times as the Pearl of the Orient, a mercantilist and mercenary trading hub where it was ‘hard to know where the government ended and ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2017 )
Tears in the Darkness by Michael Norman
epub |eng | | Author:Michael Norman

BEN STEELE hated going near Zero Ward. The moans and cries of the dying, the stink of the sick, the morgue with its stacks of the dead. But he’d been ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2017 )
Under the Same Sky by Joseph Kim
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-06-02 | Author:Joseph Kim [Kim, Joseph]

There are only two things you really need as a homeless person: food and heat. Heat keeps you alive at night, when the temperature falls below freezing. On those nights ...
( Category: Asia September 4,2017 )
Bali: A Paradise Created by Vickers Adrian;
epub |eng | | Author:Vickers, Adrian;

John Coast at rehearsal for his tour of Balinese performing arts While Coast was engaged in the struggle for Indonesian independence, Colin McPhee, the expert on Balinese music, was writing ...
( Category: Anthropology September 3,2017 )
How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism by Alexander Anievas & Kerem Nişancıoğlu
epub |eng | 2015-06-19 | Author:Alexander Anievas & Kerem Nişancıoğlu [Anievas, Alexander]

( Category: Economics September 3,2017 )
Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2017-07-31 | Author:Shashi Tharoor

5 THE MYTH OF ENLIGHTENED DESPOTISM There has been a tendency on the part of many, including several Anglophile Indians, to see British colonial rule as essentially benign, a version ...
( Category: Asia September 3,2017 )
The Imperial Japanese Army by Bill Yenne
epub |eng | 2017-05-17 | Author:Bill Yenne [Yenne, Bill]

CHAPTER 17 WAR COMES TO BURMA Burma was a keystone on the strategic map of Southeast Asia. With China to the north, Thailand to the east, and India, the crown ...
( Category: Asia September 3,2017 )
Finding George Orwell in Burma by Larkin Emma
epub, azw3 |eng | 2006-03-06 | Author:Larkin, Emma [Larkin, Emma]

IF YOU LOOK at a British map from Orwell’s time in Burma you will see a strange star-shaped structure just north of Rangoon. It is large in comparison to anything ...
( Category: Asia September 3,2017 )
Nixon's Nuclear Specter: The Secret Alert of 1969, Madman Diplomacy, and the Vietnam War by Jeffrey P. Kimball & William Burr
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-07-04 | Author:Jeffrey P. Kimball & William Burr [Kimball, Jeffrey P.]

Aborting the “Tough Option” Nixon approved the DUCK HOOK goal of signaling Hanoi’s leaders that he would “go to almost any length to end the war quickly,” since it conformed ...
( Category: Military September 2,2017 )

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