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Escape from the Land of Snows by Stephan Talty
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-12-27 | Author:Stephan Talty [Talty, Stephan]

After a few hours of exchanging gunfire with the Chinese at the transport station, Soepa realized the PLA was winning. “Their bullets were finding their mark and many were killed ...
( Category: China June 12,2015 )
Speed Tribes by Karl Taro Greenfeld
epub |eng | 1994-06-11 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld [Greenfeld, Karl Taro]

“Hello, uh, this is Takehiro Hashimoto speaking, may I please speak with Keiko Nakagami?” “That is me.” “Uh. Thank you very much for coming to lunch with my family and ...
( Category: General June 12,2015 )
Black April by George Veith
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:George Veith [Veith, George]

“MAINTAIN A FIRM GRIP ON ROUTE 1, NO MATTER WHAT THE COST” In Saigon, Wolfgang Lehmann watched Danang’s growing refugee problem with concern. On 18 March he cabled Washington and ...
( Category: Vietnam War June 12,2015 )
Hara-Kiri: Japanese Ritual Suicide by Jack Seward
epub, pdf |eng | 1968-06-15 | Author:Jack Seward [Seward, Jack]

Kaishaku The word kaishaku means "to attend," "to look after," or "to serve." In the course of time, this term came to be used solely to refer to the act ...
( Category: Suicide June 12,2015 )
Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey From East to West and Back by Janice P. Nimura
epub |eng | 2015-05-04 | Author:Janice P. Nimura [Nimura, Janice P.]

BY THE END of that first spring, Ume despaired of ever repaying the debt she owed Japan. On bad days, she expressed her unhappiness in the same bleak terms Sutematsu ...
( Category: Japan June 11,2015 )
A house for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul
mobi |eng | 2001-01-15 | Author:V. S. Naipaul

‘Savi, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘Anand, what you drinking?’ ‘Ovaltine.’ ‘It nice?’ ‘Very nice.’ ‘Ma, Savi and Anand drinking Ovaltine. Their pappa give it to them.’ ‘Well, let me tell ...
( Category: Cultural Heritage June 11,2015 )
Under the Loving Care of the Fatherly Leader: North Korea and the Kim Dynasty by Bradley K. Martin
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-01-10 | Author:Bradley K. Martin

Several things occurred to heat up the North Korean nuclear issue further. In February 1991, a bilateral committee set up by the East-West Center in Honolulu and the Seoul Forum ...
( Category: North June 11,2015 )
Jack Weatherford by The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire
mobi |eng | 2010-02-01 | Author:The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

Esen had united the Mongols and defeated the Muslim ruler and the Ming emperor, but in the most important confrontation of his career, he could not overcome the determined will ...
( Category: Asia June 11,2015 )
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 | 2004-02-23 | Author:Steve Coll

BY THE AUTUMN OF 1997 persistent lobbying against the Taliban by the Feminist Majority had influenced the two most important women in the Clinton administration, Madeleine Albright and Hillary Clinton. ...
( Category: Asian June 11,2015 )
Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey Into Bhutan by Jamie Zeppa
mobi, epub |eng | 1999-01-02 | Author:Jamie Zeppa

It is too late for them to go home after, so they spend the night, sleeping on mats and quilts on the floor, covered with blankets and kiras and towels. ...
( Category: Travel June 11,2015 )
Gem In The Lotus by Abraham Eraly
epub |eng | 2002-01-22 | Author:Abraham Eraly [Eraly, Abraham]

NOTHING LASTS. THE FINAL result of every gain and achievement and of every happiness—“the short-lived pleasure of the frightened in the arms of the frightened,” as the Dhammapada puts it—is ...
( Category: India June 8,2015 )
Marching Through Suffering by Sandra Fahy
epub |eng | 2015-04-06 | Author:Sandra Fahy [Fahy, Sandra]

5 BREAKING POINTS “That person who defects has reached the point where their very existence is dead . . . by the time they arrive at that point to put ...
( Category: Asian June 7,2015 )
Nixon and Mao: The Week That Changed the World by Margaret MacMillan
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2007-02-12 | Author:Margaret MacMillan

CHAPTER 13 GETTING READY IN FEBRUARY 1972, RON WALKER, HEAD OF THE WHITE HOUSE advance team, arrived in China with his party of nearly a hundred technicians and specialists to ...
( Category: Diplomacy June 5,2015 )
Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina by Bernard B. Fall
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Bernard B. Fall [Fall, Bernard B.]

This entailed faster traveling, less roadside security and greater convoy discipline, but, under the circumstances, Barrou felt that the game was worth the gamble, the more so as Mobile Group ...
( Category: France June 4,2015 )
A History of Japan by Totman Conrad
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Totman, Conrad [Totman, Conrad]

10 THE AGE OF GROWTH(1590–1700) Dimensions of Expansion Kyoto Revived Enriching a Common Higher Culture 11 STASIS AND DECAY (1700–1850) Primary Production:Trends and Ramifications Cultural and Political Trends 12 CRISIS ...
( Category: Japan June 3,2015 )

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