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The Vietnam War: The History of America's Conflict in Southeast Asia (Classic Conflicts) by C. Westmoreland General William
azw3 |eng | 2015-06-24 | Author:C. Westmoreland, General William

■ Pin-point detection by electronic means From the outset, the system successfully detected trucks and furnished information on volume of traffic, convoy speed, and hours of operation. It has been ...
( Category: Asia July 12,2015 )
Art of War--Spirituality for Conflict: Annotated & Explained by Thomas Huynh
epub |eng | 2008-10-22 | Author:Thomas Huynh [Huynh, Thomas]

17The fourth of the five factors is preparation. According to Sun Tzu, a prepared army is a strong army, whereas an unprepared army is a weak army. This relates to ...
( Category: Strategy July 11,2015 )
The Book of Five Rings (with linked TOC) by Miyamoto Musashi
epub |eng | 2010-01-19 | Author:Miyamoto, Musashi [Miyamoto, Musashi]

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: Japan July 10,2015 )
From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia by Pankaj Mishra
epub |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:Pankaj Mishra [Mishra, Pankaj]

Like many others, Phan was thrilled by Japan’s victory over Russia in 1905. ‘Our minds’, he wrote, ‘may now contemplate a new, exquisite world.’ Later that same year he travelled ...
( Category: Asian June 22,2015 )
Field Notes on Democracy: Listening to Grasshoppers by Arundhati Roy
epub |eng | 2009-08-01 | Author:Arundhati Roy [Roy, Arundhati]

For instance, from the early 1990s, we have seen the systematic dismantling of laws that protect workers’ rights and the fundamental rights of ordinary people (the right to shelter/health/education /water). ...
( Category: Democracy June 17,2015 )
Howard Zinn on War by Howard Zinn
epub, pdf |eng | 2011-06-13 | Author:Howard Zinn [Zinn, Howard]

Our general diplomatic and strategic position would be considerably weakened—by our loss of Chinese, Indian and South Seas markets (and by our loss of much of the Japanese market for ...
( Category: History & Theory June 16,2015 )
Annihilation of Caste by B.R. Ambedkar
epub |eng | 2014-10-06 | Author:B.R. Ambedkar [Roy, Arundhati]

3.6 But what is worthy of note is that the plebeians permitted themselves to be thus cheated because they too, like the patricians, held firmly the belief that the approval ...
( Category: Discrimination & Racism June 16,2015 )
Empress Dowager Cixi by Jung Chang
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-25 | Author:Jung Chang [Chang, Jung]

20 A Plot to Kill Cixi (September 1898) WILD FOX KANG had been hatching plots to kill Cixi for some time, knowing that she stood between him and supreme power. ...
( Category: China June 14,2015 )
Ghosts of Empire by Kwarteng Kwasi
epub |eng | 2011-08-15 | Author:Kwarteng, Kwasi [Kwarteng, Kwasi]

Yet more wonderful were the women . . . There were at least three of them to every man. Black women from Equatoria [the southern province of Sudan] and almost ...
( Category: African June 13,2015 )
Ghosts of Empire: Britain's Legacies in the Modern World by Kwarteng Kwasi
mobi |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Kwarteng, Kwasi [Kwarteng, Kwasi]

Yet more wonderful were the women . . . There were at least three of them to every man. Black women from Equatoria [the southern province of Sudan] and almost ...
( Category: African June 13,2015 )
The Longest August: The Unflinching Rivalry Between India and Pakistan by Dilip Hiro
epub |eng | 2015-02-24 | Author:Dilip Hiro [Hiro, Dilip]

Proxy Wars on Track While the overtly conducted war games and diplomacy ended satisfactorily, the proxy war by India and Pakistan through RAW and the ISI intensified in 1987. In ...
( Category: History & Theory June 13,2015 )
First Battle by Otto Lehrack
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-07-18 | Author:Otto Lehrack

THE ATTACK ON NAM YEN 3 As Hotel, 2/4’s 1st and 3d platoons closed on Nam Yen 3 the first sign of life from the village was a black-pajama-clad man ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 13,2015 )
Climbing the Mango Trees by Madhur Jaffrey
epub |eng | 2008-12-18 | Author:Madhur Jaffrey [Jaffrey, Madhur]

NINETEEN Chicken Pox • Soup-Toast and Sewing • A Fancy-Dress Party The chicken pox lasted a good three weeks. I was convinced I that I would come out of it ...
( Category: Indian June 13,2015 )
For All the Tea in China by Sarah Rose
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Sarah Rose

Behind the gentlemanly façade of the East India Company there were often hidden rivalries and simmering tensions, and within the Indian network of company gardeners this friction often centered on ...
( Category: China June 12,2015 )
When China Rules The World by Martin Jacques
epub |eng | 2011-03-07 | Author:Martin Jacques [Jacques, Martin]

Together they constitute what might be described as the Middle Kingdom mentality. The historically arresting fact is simply how old these beliefs and convictions actually are. The obvious parallel is ...
( Category: Asian June 12,2015 )

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