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The Vietnam War by Deborah Kent
epub |eng | 2011-09-02 | Author:Deborah Kent [Kent, Deborah]

Image Credit: National Archives General William C. Westmoreland was a primary voice in urging President Lyndon Johnson to escalate America’s involvement in the Vietnam War. This photo of General Westmoreland ...
( Category: History September 2,2017 )
The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint-U
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-19 | Author:Thant Myint-U

THE CINDERELLA PROVINCE Personally I love the Burman with the blind favouritism born of first impression. When I die I will be a Burman, with twenty yards of real King’s ...
( Category: Asia September 2,2017 )
15 Months in SOG by Thom Nicholson
epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-03-02 | Author:Thom Nicholson [Nicholson, Thom]

12 Bomb Damage Assessments or Run for Your Life, Charlie Brown “Nick, I’m sending you back up to FOB One.” Major Skelton held up his hand to stop my protest. ...
( Category: Military September 2,2017 )
A Book of Five Rings by Miyamoto Musashi
epub |eng | 2012-04-28 | Author:Miyamoto Musashi [Musashi, Miyamoto]

THE FIRE BOOK In this the Fire Book of the Ni To Ichi school of strategy I describe fighting as fire. In the first place, people think narrowly about the ...
( Category: Philosophy September 2,2017 )
The Great Tamasha by James Astill
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:James Astill [Astill, James]

CHAPTER SIX Cricket, Caste and the Countryside By 7am the sun was climbing over Dharavi, a big slum in Mumbai, and a symphony of clanging metal and whirring machinery resounding ...
( Category: Industries September 1,2017 )
The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom by Hassig Ralph & Oh Kongdan
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-11-15 | Author:Hassig, Ralph & Oh, Kongdan [Hassig, Ralph]

The New Year’s Joint Editorial When Kim Il-sung was alive, he recorded a New Year’s message that was broadcast on the radio and published in Nodong Sinmun. Since his death, ...
( Category: Asia September 1,2017 )
The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World by T.V. Paul
mobi |eng | 2014-01-02 | Author:T.V. Paul

Sectarian Differences Increasingly, political Islamism has meant not just the dominance of Islam as such but the dominance of Sunni Islam, and in particular the Deobandi tradition, over every other ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 1,2017 )
The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistan's Lawless Frontier by Imtiaz Gul
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-05-31 | Author:Imtiaz Gul [Gul, Imtiaz]

The Bomber Who Wavered “We receive funds from Arab countries, therefore, we cannot carry out any attack there, and if we commit any wrong there, they will stop supply of ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 1,2017 )
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
mobi |eng | 2004-12-28 | Author:Steve Coll

UNOCAL CONTINUED TO FLOOD Foggy Bottom and the National Security Council with the same advice: The Taliban were a reality, and they could also be part of a new Afghan ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 1,2017 )
Eating Grass: The Making of the Pakistani Bomb by Feroz Khan
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-07 | Author:Feroz Khan

14 The Nuclear Test Decision At 3:45 p.m. on May 11, 1998, India conducted three nuclear tests, claiming the first test to be a two-stage thermonuclear experiment (Shakti-I), the second ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 1,2017 )
An Enemy We Created: The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan by Linschoten Alex Strick van & Kuehn Felix
mobi |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Linschoten, Alex Strick van & Kuehn, Felix [Linschoten, Alex Strick van]

2) incited and commented on events 3) claimed responsibility for certain attacks 4) influenced international politics—as bin Laden attempted with his statement a few days prior to the November 2004 ...
( Category: Asia September 1,2017 )
Shooting for a Century: The India-Pakistan Conundrum by Stephen P. Cohen
mobi |eng | 2013-05-28 | Author:Stephen P. Cohen

CHAPTER FIVE EXPLANATIONS As may be clear by now, the complexities of attitudes on the subcontinent make it very difficult to pinpoint the causes of the India-Pakistan rivalry. From the ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 1,2017 )
As Good As Dead by Stephen L. Moore
epub |eng | 2016-10-31 | Author:Stephen L. Moore

* * * DEAL HAD SURVIVED his struggle with the guard, but with a bullet in his shoulder, he had no intention of swimming out into the bay. He hoped ...
( Category: Asia September 1,2017 )
The Everlasting Empire by Yuri Pines
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Yuri Pines [Pines, Yuri]

preservation of the sociopolitical order and not threatening to state authority.41 While all the factors described above encouraged the officials to deepen their cooperation with and reliance upon the local ...
( Category: Politics & Government September 1,2017 )
The Kama Sutra Diaries by Sally Howard
epub |eng | 2013-08-31 | Author:Sally Howard

The next morning the sun rises over muesli-packet mountain views as Dimple and I breakfast on small, densely sweet Cherapunjee oranges. She’s been clamouring to get her hands on this ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling August 31,2017 )

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