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  • Our Time

    Training, Deploying, and Combat with Company C, 2Nd Battalion, 47Th Infantry

    by LTC John E. Gross ...
    The 9th Infantry Division was formed in a new and unique way in 1966. Traditionally, soldiers attended basic training on one Army post, Advanced Individual Training (AIT) at another, then reported to their units to begin serving with soldiers they had never met. The 9th was different. Recruits reported directly to the units they would serve in combat with. They received their basic and AIT under ... Read more

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  • The Hidden History of the Korean War, 1950–1951

    by I. F. Stone ...
    Series Book 10 - Forbidden Bookshelf
    "A great journalist" raises troubling questions about the forgotten war in this courageous, controversial book—with a new introduction by Bruce Cumings ( The Baltimore Sun)."Much about the Korean War is still hidden, and much will long remain hidden. I believe I have succeeded in throwing new light on its origins." —From the author's prefaceIn 1945 US troops arrived in Korea for what would become ... Read more

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  • Ambon

    The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit

    by Roger Maynard ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just one-third of them had survived and Ambon became a place of nightmares, one of the most notorious of all POW ... Read more

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  • Night, Again

    Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam

    Edited by Linh Dinh ...
    A couple's scheme to get rich by killing their father backfires, leaving them in charge of a cripple. In heaven, a baby, dead through neglect, tells his playmates: "Life down there is just one long sleep." A young soldier, saved by a stranger, can never again find her to thank her. A man carries a massive clock. Using a variety of techniques and styles, in this collection of twelve short stories ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Death of a Generation

    How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War

    by Howard Jones ...
    When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of enduring controversy. Now, based on convincing new evidence--including a startling revelation about ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Burma

    by D. G. E. Hall ...
    The early history of Burma is obscure. The Burmese chronicles begin with the supposed foundation of Tagaung in 850 B.C., but the stories they tell are copies of Indian legends taken from Sanskrit or Pali originals. The earliest extant description of Further India is in the Geography of the Alexandrian scholar, Ptolemy, who flourished in the middle of the second century A.D. He refers to the ... Read more

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  • Red Star Over Malaya

    Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1946

    by Boon Kheng Cheah ...
    Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • The Massacres at Mt. Halla

    Sixty Years of Truth Seeking in South Korea

    by Hun Joon Kim ...
    In The Massacres at Mt. Halla**, Hun Joon Kim presents a compelling story of state violence, human rights advocacy, and transitional justice in South Korea since 1947.** The "Jeju 4.3 events" were a series of armed uprisings and counterinsurgency actions that occurred between 1947 and 1954 in the rugged landscape around Mt. Halla in Jeju Province, South Korea. The counterinsurgency strategy was ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • MacArthur's Spies

    The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II

    by Peter Eisner ...
    **"MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war—and the best part is that it's all true!" —Tom Maier, author of Masters of SexA thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in the exotic landscape of occupied Manila during World War II.**On January 2, 1942, Japanese troops marched into Manila ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Freedom in Entangled Worlds

    West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power

    by Eben Kirksey ...
    Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, as an exchange student in 1998. His later study of West Papua's resistance to the Indonesian occupiers and the forces of globalization morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of this dynamic social movement. Accompanying indigenous activists to Washington, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Misalliance

    Ngo Dinh Diem, the United States, and the Fate of South Vietnam

    by Edward Miller ...
    In the annals of Vietnam War history, no figure has been more controversial than Ngo Dinh Diem. During the 1950s, U.S. leaders hailed Diem as “the miracle man of Southeast Asia” and funneled huge amounts of aid to his South Vietnamese government. But in 1963 Diem was ousted and assassinated in a coup endorsed by President John F. Kennedy. Diem’s alliance with Washington has long been seen as a ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Korea's Fight for Freedom Part 3 (Illustrated)

    by F.A. Mckenzie ...
    Series Book 3 - Korea's Fight for Freedom (Illustrated)
    The tragedy of the Jews during the Second World War is well-known to the world, but you don’t know much about the torture that Koreans suffered during the same period. You will never imagine it without reading this book.Korea was under Japanese colonial rule for 35 years. (1910 ~ 1945) Japan annexed Korea by threatening with her military power. They treated Koreans as slavery. They had ninjas ... Read more

    $2.99 USD