Asia
epub |eng | 2015-01-21 | Author:Harold M. Tanner
LIN BIAO’S HESITATION The feasibility of Chiang’s plan of action can be gauged by Lin Biao’s reaction: it nearly caused him to call off the attack on Jinzhou. To understand ...
( Category:
China
January 22,2016 )
mobi |eng | 1992-10-19 | Author:David P. Chandler [Chandler, David P.]
Tuol Sleng. Photo by Bruce Sharp. Copyright by Bruce Sharp. An interrogation room at Tuol Sleng. When Vietnamese troops arrived in Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979, the bodies of ...
( Category:
India & South Asia
January 14,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2015-04-12 | Author:Scott, James M. [Scott, James M.]
TED LAWSON’S CONDITION continued to deteriorate. He suffered a terrible night on April 25, forcing Doc White to give him a blood transfusion. The doctor recruited Griffith Williams to serve ...
( Category:
World War II
January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-14 | Author:James A. Millward [Millward, James A.]
Silk road or paper route? Today, as newspapers become digital, millions read “the paper” on small electronic devices; these devices also help us communicate, navigate by map and compass, record ...
( Category:
Asia
January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Paul French
Closet investigations, secret meetings, people being bundled out of the city—it all seemed outlandish to Dennis. And despite the pact of silence in his office, the rumours and gossip inevitably ...
( Category:
China
January 9,2016 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2013-11-27 | Author:Rice, Timothy [Rice, Timothy]
Music teaching and learning John Blacking believed that music was a fundamental attribute of human nature, as important to us as speech and language. He based this claim on his ...
( Category:
Ethnic & International
January 8,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2012-04-05 | Author:Morris Rossabi [Rossabi, Morris]
Khubilai governs China Once he became the uncontested Great Khan, Khubilai began to develop a hybrid administration, which would appeal to and incorporate both Chinese and Mongol elements. He was ...
( Category:
Criticism
January 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-15 | Author:Nick Holdstock
Though Enver and Rebiya Kadeer became dissidents for very different reasons, both paid a heavy price for denouncing Chinese-government policy in Xinjiang. As Stuart Tanner puts it: ‘It takes some ...
( Category:
Ethnic Studies
January 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-20 | Author:Eric Bogosian [Bogosian, Eric]
After the war began in 1914 and Armenian soldiers were conscripted, in May 1915 came the news that the schools had to be shut and that the city’s notables and ...
( Category:
Middle Eastern
January 3,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Mitter, Rana [Mitter, Rana]
PART IV THE POISONED ALLIANCE Chapter 13 Destination Burma SINCE THAT TERRIBLE DAY in December 1941, they had been captives. Spring had come to Guangdong province, but the new season ...
( Category:
China
January 2,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:William J. Duiker
Even after signing the September 14 agreement, to the exasperation of his hosts Ho Chi Minh still seemed reluctant to return to Vietnam (in an extended biographical essay on Ho, ...
( Category:
Vietnam War
January 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-07-29 | Author:Stanley Weintraub
Bearded and frostbitten, Bill Barber’s beleaguered Marines descending from the Toktong Pass would hold on for three days at Fox Hill. Coming down from Yudam-ni, Sergeant Aguirre of 3rd Battalion, ...
( Category:
Campaigns
December 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Fariba Nawa
My father gave my mother the name Nafasgul, meaning “the breath of a flower,” as was tradition in their generation—husbands often gave their wives endearing nicknames when they first married. ...
( Category:
Journalism & Nonfiction
December 28,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Cohen, Paul A
THE DIMMING OF POPULAR MEMORY: JOAN OF ARC AFTER THE WAR Joan of Arc is visually omnipresent in today’s France. “A high percentage of churches,” according to one observer, “have ...
( Category:
Jewish
December 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-14 | Author:Marshall Harrison [Harrison, Marshall]
PART 5 Over the Fence THEY FOUND ME A BUNK FOR THE NIGHT IN the squadron quarters in Bien Hoa. The air-conditioning and tile floors felt as if I were ...
( Category:
Vietnam War
December 26,2015 )
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