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THE COUP AGAINST DIEM The climatic episode that would push Hanoi into a definitively militant strategy in the South came in the fall, when the political landscape there changed suddenly ...

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Vainly now for chances lost Yuan sighs; once he was great. Had he taken Hsu's advice, Ts'ao had rot set up a State. Hsu Yu stealthily left the camp and ...

epub |eng | 2009-12-26 | Author:George Weller [Weller, George]

XI The Defense of Australia By his own admission, Weller arrived in Australia scared and filled with “guilt about the people left behind.” (At least one colleague “escaped and went ...

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I had come to Mangalore expecting to fall completely in love with its fish curry, but I lusted instead, for much of my time there, after another dish, before I ...

epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Caroline Moorehead [Caroline Moorehead]

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epub |eng | 2009-04-12 | Author:Christopher Hale

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epub |eng | 2014-07-27 | Author:Ramachandra Guha & Jay Taylor & Rana Mitter & Odd Arne Westad & Srinath Raghavan & Farzana Shaikh & James Rush & Michael D. Barr & Jian Chen & Sophie Quinn-Judge [Guha, Ramachandra & Taylor, Jay & Mitter, Rana & Westad, Odd Arne & Raghavan, Srinath & Shaikh, Farzana & Rush, James & Barr, Michael D. & Chen, Jian & Quinn-Judge, Sophie]

Guiding Democracy Sukarno arrived back in Indonesia in October following the second of his whirlwind tours refreshed and confident. But what he had seen also disturbed him. Much of the ...

mobi |eng | 1995-01-01 | Author:Robert Leckie

Three flares burst over Kakazu Ridge during the early darkness of April 12. Two were red, the first signaling, “Commence artillery fire,” and the other, “We are attacking with full ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tim Clissold

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epub |eng | 1947-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

15 DJAO GIVES A CLEAR ACCOUNT OF THE REAL MURDERER; JUDGE DEE ALLOWS MRS. DIOU TO RETURN TO HER HOME. This story impressed Judge Dee, but it failed to convince ...

epub |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Rana Mitter

A modern politics? A popular characterization of China’s leaders of the 20th century, particularly Mao, is that they have sought to become new emperors in their own right. Although it ...

epub |eng | 1996-12-31 | Author:Iris Chang

The next morning Rabe awoke to the sound of yet another air raid. Apparently not all of the Chinese army had been forced from of the city, he thought. It ...

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epub, mobi |eng | 2008-11-25 | Author:Steve Coll

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