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“major robert lyman”

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  • Slim, Master of War

    Burma, 1942-5

    by Major Robert Lyman ...
    'Elegantly written and beautifully produced' TLSHow 'Uncle Bill' won the war in BurmaDefeated and demoralised, British units in the Far East had virtually been ejected from Burma when, in 1943, General W. J. Slim organised, trained and then deployed his famous 'forgotten' 14th Army to devastating effect, defeating the Japanese twice and liberating Burma in the process. One of the most innovative ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Where China Meets India

    Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia

    by Thant Myint-U ...
    Thant Myint-U's Where China Meets India is a vivid, searching, timely book about the remote region that is suddenly a geopolitical center of the world.From their very beginnings, China and India have been walled off from each other: by the towering summits of the Himalayas, by a vast and impenetrable jungle, by hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms stretching a thousand miles from Calcutta ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Short History of Bali: Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    Indonesia's Hindu Realm

    by Robert Pringle ...
    A Short History of Bali covers the entire history of this intriguing and mysterious island from before the Bronze Age to the presidency of Megawati Sukarnoputri and the tragedy of the Kuta bombings on 12 October 2002. It looks at the arrival of Indian culture early European contact the role of anthropologists and taste-makers of the 1930s in romanticising the island and the complex legacies of ... Read more

    $13.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chopsticks

    A Cultural and Culinary History

    by Q. Edward Wang ...
    Chopsticks have become a quintessential part of the Japanese, Chinese and Korean culinary experience across the globe, with more than one fifth of the world's population using them daily to eat. In this vibrant, highly original account of the history of chopsticks, Q. Edward Wang charts their evolution from a simple eating implement in ancient times to their status as a much more complex, cultural ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Modern China: All That Matters

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Series series All That Matters
    In Modern China: All That Matters, Jonathan Clements presents China as the Chinese themselves see it. He explains the key issues of national reconstruction; the Cold War, the Cultural Revolution, and the dizzying spectacle of China's economic reform. Clements offers a Chinese perspective on such events as the Handover of Hong Kong, and chronicles the historical events that continue to resonate ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Fall of Malaya and Singapore

    by Jon Diamond ...
    Series series Images of War
    "This photo essay produces a very effective picture of the defeat of British forces in Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese . . . Highly recommended."—FiretrenchIn just 10 weeks from 8 December 1941 to mid-February 1942, British and Imperial forces were utterly defeated by the numerically inferior Japanese under General Yamashita.British units fought hard on the Malayan mainland, but the Japanese ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Speaking to History

    The Story of King Goujian in Twentieth-Century China

    by Paul A. Cohen ...
    Series Book 16 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    The ancient story of King Goujian, a psychologically complex fifth-century BCE monarch, spoke powerfully to the Chinese during China's turbulent twentieth century. Yet most Americans—even students and specialists of this era—have never heard of Goujian. In Speaking to History, Paul A. Cohen opens this previously missing (to the West) chapter of China's recent history. He connects the story to each ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Women in the Middle East

    Past and Present

    by Nikki R. Keddie ...
    Written by a pioneer in the field of Middle Eastern women's history, Women in the Middle East is a concise, comprehensive, and authoritative history of the lives of the region's women since the rise of Islam. Nikki Keddie shows why hostile or apologetic responses are completely inadequate to the diversity and richness of the lives of Middle Eastern women, and she provides a unique overview of ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • A Carved Cloak for Tahu

    A History of Ngai Tahu Matawhaiti

    by Mere Whaanga ...
    Oral histories, legends, and accounts of contemporary life of a New Zealand Maori tribe are presented in this cultural that includes colonial histories of the Native Land Court and traditional histories from the Northern Hawke's Bay. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Persia

    by Percy Molesworth Sykes ...
    Sykes was educated at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst and, upon his commission as an officer in the British Army, joined a cavalry regiment in India in 1888. In November 1892, he undertook a secret mission to Samarkand (present-day Uzbekistan) to survey, on behalf of the British authorities, the Trans-Caspian Railway, recently completed by the Russians. He made trips to Persia in 1893 and ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Russian Culture in Uzbekistan

    One Language in the Middle of Nowhere

    by David MacFadyen ...
    Series series Central Asian Studies
    Recent political changes in Central Asia, where the United States is replacing Russia as the dominant power, are having a profound effect on Russian speakers in the region. These people, formerly perceived as progressive and engaging with Europe, are now confronted by the erasure of their literary, musical, cinematic and journalistic culture, as local ethnic and American cultures become much ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Strolling About on the Roof of the World

    The First Hundred Years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs

    by Susan Farrington, Hugh Leach ...
    This volume covers the first one hundred years of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, formerly the Royal Central Asian Society. It traces its fons et origo in the Central Asian Question, within the context of the 'Great Game', and continues its fascinating chronology through the two World Wars to the present day. There are separate chapters on its widely drawn membership, variety of activities ... Read more

    $70.99 USD