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The Lady and the Monk: Four Seasons in Kyoto by Pico Iyer
mobi |eng | 1991-01-02 | Author:Pico Iyer

3 WINTER MADE EVERYONE a kind of monk in Japan, bringing out a streak of worldly asceticism that was never far from the surface in this land of spartan epicures. ...
( Category: Travel Writing March 25,2014 )
Strong Men Armed: The United States Marines Against Japan by Leckie Robert
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 1997-08-21 | Author:Leckie, Robert [Leckie, Robert]

A convoy had left Pearl Harbor on that date and it was the Northern Force headed for Roi-Namur. It carried the men of the Fourth Marine Division. They had sailed ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Speed Tribes: Days and Nights With Japan's Next Generation by Karl Taro Greenfeld
mobi |eng | 1995-08-10 | Author:Karl Taro Greenfeld

“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: Asian March 25,2014 )
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-04-15 | Author:Max Hastings

The sea below was black and the lower bases of the clouds a dark, dull gray. Then, almost as if in response to a drum roll, there was an explosion ...
( Category: United States March 25,2014 )
Okinawa: The Last Battle of World War II by Robert Leckie
mobi, epub | | 1996-07-01 | 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 ...
( Category: Japan March 25,2014 )
White Mughals: Love and Betrayal in Eighteenth-Century India by William Dalrymple
mobi, epub |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:William Dalrymple

The scale of William’s ambitions has echoes of the world of Conrad, with its steamships, up-country logging stations, ivory hunters, uncharted malarial forests and riverboats. Yet, driven forward with an ...
( Category: Historical March 25,2014 )
Tinderbox by M.J. Akbar
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:M.J. Akbar

9 Breaking Point There were five ‘swivel’ moments in Congress–Muslim relations before the formation of Pakistan. The pact negotiated by Jinnah in 1916, in which the Congress accepted separate electorates, ...
( Category: Pakistan March 25,2014 )
The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan
mobi, epub |eng | 2009-09-01 | Author:Padma Viswanathan

26. The Son of a Son 1932 THERE IS A BOY ON SIVAKAMI’S STEP holding out a piece of paper. She doesn’t understand. He explains that it is a telegram. ...
( Category: India March 25,2014 )
On the Grand Trunk Road by Steve Coll
mobi, epub |eng | 1994-01-02 | Author:Steve Coll

Organized, state-sponsored political murder is practiced regularly and on a significant scale in South Asia today not only in Sri Lanka but in the disputed Indian states of Punjab and ...
( Category: General March 25,2014 )
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-10-03 | Author:Simon Winchester

The British consul in Batavia at the time was one Alexander Patrick Cameron; and five days later he sat down in his study and had his confidential clerk write out, ...
( Category: Volcanology March 25,2014 )
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded by Simon Winchester
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Simon Winchester

Krakatoa's final twenty hours and fifty-six minutes were marked by a number of phases. First, from early afternoon on Sunday until about 7 p.m. there was a series of explosions ...
( Category: Volcanology March 25,2014 )
Instant City by Steve Inskeep
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-06 | Author:Steve Inskeep

10 EMERGENCY NUMBERS This is where we last encountered Dr. Seemin Jamali, the “Incharge” of the emergency department at Jinnah hospital. On February 5, 2010, an argument was boiling at ...
( Category: Asian March 25,2014 )
Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire by Tunzelmann Alex Von
mobi |eng | 2008-09-29 | Author:Tunzelmann, Alex Von [Tunzelmann, Alex Von]

TEN DAYS after the transfer of power, the scale and awfulness of what was under way had still not been realized in Delhi. “We are only just alive,” wrote Edwina ...
( Category: Asia March 25,2014 )
India's Struggle for Independence by Chandra Bipan
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2000-10-13 | Author:Chandra, Bipan [Chandra, Bipan]

24 The Rise of the Left-Wing A powerful left-wing group developed in India in the late 1920s and 1930s contributing to the radicalization of the national movement. The goal of ...
( Category: Essays March 25,2014 )
Five Past Midnight in Bhopal by Dominique Lapierre; Javier Moro
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2009-05-30 | Author:Dominique Lapierre; Javier Moro

29 “My Beautiful Plant Was Losing Its Soul” The young engineer who had risked his life escorting the first barrels of MIC from Bombay to Bhopal could not believe it. ...
( Category: India March 25,2014 )

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