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Empires of the Silk Road: A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present by Christopher I. Beckwith
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-09-11 | Author:Christopher I. Beckwith [Beckwith, Christopher I.]

The Manchu Conquests in Central Eurasia The Manchus knew they had to neutralize or, even better, subjugate the Mongols in order to achieve their dream of reestablishing the empire of ...
( Category: Asia August 26,2017 )
Red China Blues (reissue): My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong
epub |eng | 2011-02-03 | Author:Jan Wong [Wong, Jan]

Part III PARADISE LOST 12 Dancing With Dissidents Interviewing a dissident, Gao Xin, in the Altar to the Sun park in Beijing. Imprisoned following the Tiananmen Massacre, he was never ...
( Category: Ethnic & National August 26,2017 )
Farthest Field by Karnad Raghu
epub |eng | 2015-06-04 | Author:Karnad, Raghu

14 No Heroes Madras, May–June 1943 After the deserts of Libya and Iraq, and lately a week on the Arabian Sea, the men of 2nd Field Company had seen enough ...
( Category: Military August 26,2017 )
The Real Bravo Two Zero (Cassell Military Paperbacks) by Asher Michael
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-30 | Author:Asher, Michael [Asher, Michael]

CHAPTER eleven FROM THE POINT WHERE THE patrol had split I had the option of following either McNab’s or Ryan’s route. Though I was still anxious to find out what ...
( Category: Military August 25,2017 )
Joint Force Harrier by Adrian Orchard & Adrian Orchard & James Barrington
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Adrian Orchard & Adrian Orchard & James Barrington [Adrian Orchard and James Barrington]

15 I pulled back on the throttle as I headed east back to Kandahar. As the RPM dropped I scanned the cockpit instruments, my eyes ranging, almost unconsciously, over displays ...
( Category: Military August 25,2017 )
Scorched Earth by Rosen Sue;
epub |eng | 2017-04-27 | Author:Rosen, Sue;

(6) Motor tools and accessories: Break, smash, cut, burn or otherwise destroy or throw into deep water (sea, river or lake) or bury in a well concealed place. Smashing of ...
( Category: Military August 25,2017 )
The First Emperor of China by Jonathan Clements
epub |eng | 2015-05-11 | Author:Jonathan Clements [Clements, Jonathan]

5 The Longest Cemetery Wall building had long been a regular occupation of ancient Chinese states. Wooden palisades, earth ramparts, ditches or stone walls were used to define borders, although ...
( Category: Asia August 25,2017 )
Ants Among Elephants by Sujatha Gidla
epub |eng | | Author:Sujatha Gidla

FIVE EXAM RESULTS CAME OUT. SATYAM, Manjula, and their father passed (he had enrolled in a B.A. program by correspondence). Carey failed. It was English again. Many of Manjula’s classmates ...
( Category: Arts & Literature August 25,2017 )
Tokyo Underworld by Robert Whiting
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Whiting

DEA CULTURAL WALL Like novice American businessmen in Japan trying to figure out the distinction between a gift and a bribe, US crime investigators on the trail of lawbreakers in ...
( Category: True Crime August 25,2017 )
Koh-i-Noor by William Dalrymple
epub |eng | | Author:William Dalrymple

By the 1840s the British were the undisputed geopolitical masters of much of India. Through a mixture of trade and conquest, their territories expanded rapidly from Madras in the south-east ...
( Category: Asia August 25,2017 )
Tank Tracks to Rangoon by Bryan Perrett
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:Bryan Perrett [Perrett, Bryan]

At Bishenpur, the Japanese had also tried to infiltrate the position, but did not get the chance to settle in, and were rudely ejected by combined tank and infantry attacks ...
( Category: Asia August 25,2017 )
Stones Into School by Mortenson Greg
epub |eng | 2009-12-01 | Author:Mortenson, Greg [Mortenson, Greg]

CHAPTER 10 Sarfraz's Promise Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters. --ERNEST HEMINGWAY, The Sun Also Rises Two sisters in UNHCR earthquake refugee camp, Pakistan W ...
( Category: Asia August 24,2017 )
Samurai Revolution by Romulus Hillsborough
epub |eng | 2017-04-30 | Author:Romulus Hillsborough

Saigō Takamori (courtesy of National Diet Library (Japan)) The meeting between Ryōma and Saigō, it seems, was a success—even if Ryōma left with a quirky view of the man. Saigō ...
( Category: Asia August 24,2017 )
Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II by Madhusree Mukerjee
mobi |eng | 2010-07-16 | Author:Madhusree Mukerjee [Mukerjee, Madhusree]

Gourhori Majhi of Kalikakundu was eight at the time of the cyclone and living in another village. The family’s hut had fallen, but they had forded the floodwaters to reach ...
( Category: Asia August 24,2017 )
Cold Winters by A.K.M. Miles
epub |eng | 2010-11-30 | Author:A.K.M. Miles [Miles, A.K.M.]

Chapter Nine As soon as Cole and Mason walked in the emergency room, a nurse met them. “Come with me, she woke up and won’t let the doctor do anything ...
( Category: Historical August 24,2017 )

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