Asian history

One of the finest travel memoirs ever written, with a new Introduction and Afterword.

Since the conclusion of World War II, the Korean people and the international community have contemplated a unified peninsula, but a divided Korea remains one of the last visible vestiges of the Cold War.

Alternating between the loveable irrascibility and self-mocking humor reminiscent of the poet Cold Mountain (Han Shan), Budbill's poems view the modern world from the viewpoint of a New England hermit-scholar.

"e;Author James Mills presents an amazing, detailed history review of the German surface-to-air guided missile technology development.

When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War.

Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.

Geography, this author contends, is the indisputably unique feature of any country.

In February 1971, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched an incursion into Laos in an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy North Vietnamese Army (NVA) base areas along the border.

A detailed history and analysis of the most controversial amphibious operation in the Pacific during WWII: the Battle for Peleliu.

Hailed as one of the finest examples of aviation research, this comprehensive 1984 study presents a detailed and scrupulously accurate operational history of carrier-based air warfare.

Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944.

A Companion to St.

An American soldier vividly recounts leading a platoon through the most chaotic and significant year of the Vietnam War.

A German perspective of D-Day, written by an Army Corps intelligence officer in Normandy when the Allies invaded, published in English for the first time.

Fought under the cover of elaborate deceptions and ruthless lies, the deadly intelligence operations of World War II produced victories and defeats that were often as important as any reached on the battlefield.

Few morose thoughts permeate the brain when Yosemite Sam calls Bugs Bunny a ';long-eared galut' or a frustrated Homer Simpson blurts out his famous catch-word, ';D'oh!

In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention.

Today, when India is certainly once more emerging as one of the most important social experiments in the world, it is more than ever incumbent to explore and re-discover the underlying reasons and philosophy that marginalized the Indian consciousness in terms of caste, ethnicity, religion and the like.

First-person accounts chronicling the 3/7 Marines engaging in intense street-by-street fighting to put down an uprising in Iraq in April 2004.

Pocket manuals bring together a wealth of information from a wide variety of training manuals and tactical documents.

Fallujah Redux is the first book about the Fallujah Awakening written by Operation Iraqi Freedom military veterans who served there, providing a comprehensive account of the turning of Fallujah away from the al-Qaeda insurgency in 2007.

"e;The ugly wife is a treasure at home"e; is not just an idle expression in China.

Oliver P.

A comprehensive account of the development of American aircraft carriers up to and during World War II.

The connections between religion and violence are complex and multifaceted.

Pentecostals and Nonviolence explores how a distinctly Pentecostal-charismatic peace witness might be reinvigorated and sustained in the twenty-first century.

"e;The authors do a good job using the diaries, interviews, and books written by group members to convey a vivid-sometimes too vivid-picture of war at its most elemental.

A detailed summary of all types of Diamond T vehicles used by the U.

Rise of the War Machines: The Birth of Precision Bombing in World War II examines the rise of autonomy in air warfare from the inception of powered flight through the first phase of the Combined Bomber Offensive in World War II.

The first English translation of a German account of the attempt to relieve the Nazis' Sixth Army at Stalingrad during World War II.

The untold story of US Special Forces in Laos, one of the longest secret wars of the Cold War-by a military historian and Special Forces veteran.

Learn about the land of kimchi - Korea!

Learning War examines the U.

With picture books, a child can see, feel, hear and even smell India.

Few American presidents have exercised their constitutional authority as commander in chief with more determination than Franklin D.

Less than five years after naval aviation led the forces that defeated Imperial Japan that very organization was in serious trouble.

For over three decades, China exercised unprecedented control over the reproductive habits of its billion citizens.

In history many Empires have risen and fallen.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, no Canadian band rocked harder, louder or to more hardcore fans than Teenage Head.

The artist is dead.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

The First World War was the first 'total war'.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

This book explores the colonial mentalities that shaped and were shaped by women living in colonial India between 1820 and 1932.

What do your Eggs Benedict say about your notions of class?

This history of the Royal Flying Corps during the Battle of Somme offers a comprehensive firsthand look at WWI military aviation.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

If ever a writer needed an introduction Arthur Conan Doyle would not be considered that man.

The phrase ';martial arts studies' is increasingly circulating as a term to describe a new field of interest.