Asian history

Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945 is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources.

"Rikugun: Guide to Japanese Ground Forces 1937-1945" is the first nuts-and-bolts handbook to utilize both the voluminous raw allied intelligence documents and postwar Japanese documentation as primary sources.

Before Raffles, before Rajah Brooke, there was Francis Light, the 18th-century trailblazer in the Malay Archipelago.

The V Force consisted of three four-jet bombers, the Valiant, the Vulcan and the Victor, all required as part of the nuclear deterrent in the Cold War following the end of the Second World War.

This book covers the complete and long overdue history of the Hunting/BAC Jet Provost and Strikemaster, which for thirty-eight years trained generations of pilots and pioneered the RAF’s all-through flying training program.

This is a story written by a young man who trained as a pilot, and then flew with the Royal Flying Corps in France during the First World War, eventually to become an ace.

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the RAF College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft.

This book investigates the long-term continuity of large-scale states and empires, and its effect on the Near East's social fabric, including the fundamental changes that occurred to major social institutions.

Jesus is seen as a representative of an ancient and continuing wisdom tradition identified with that of the Sufis.

The dramatic encounter between Muhammad 'Ali Pasha, Ottoman governor of Egypt, and his vanquished Saudi foe, Imam 'Abd Allah, in Cairo in November 1818 marks the symbolic end of the First Saudi State.

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The peoples of Sri Lanka have participated in far-flung trading networks, religious formations, and Asian and European empires for millennia.

In December 1949, I, as a young man of 18, arrived in a different world - RAF Shaibah, 7 miles or so from Basra in Iraq, to do my (extended) two-year National Service.

September 1914, and the whole of Europe was at war following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his beloved wife Sophie by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo on 28th June 1914.

Since 20 December 2001 - the date which marked the authorization of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to assist the Afghan Government - hundreds of thousands of coalition soldiers from around 50 different states have physically been and served in Afghanistan.

Approaching the end of his five year stint as a BBC journalist in Beijing, Michael Bristow decided he wanted to write about the country's modern history.

Following the 1952 reorganization of the Portuguese Air Force from the army and naval air arms, Portugal now had an entity dedicated solely to aviation that would bring it into line with its new NATO commitment.

Formosa Betrayed is the authoritative account of the Kuomintang takeover of Taiwan in 1945 and the 1947 228 Incident in which tens of thousands of Taiwanese people an entire generation of intellectuals and leaders were massacred by the new government.

Recently occupied by the Nationalist Chinese regime, Taiwan in early 1947 was a powder keg.

Until the early twentieth century, Taiwan was one of the wildest places in Asia.

Into the Blue is widely regarded as a literary classic.

In the second volume of Harrier Boys, as with the first, the history of this remarkable aircraft in service with UK armed forces is illustrated through personal reminiscences of the people who worked with it.

Designed by Sydney Camm as a swept wing, daytime interceptor with excellent maneuverability, the Hunter became the first jet aircraft manufactured by Hawker for the Royal Air Force.

This superbly researched and beautifully told fictional memoir is about love, art, and Chinese history and politics.

Military working dogs are silently winning the war against the world's deadliest insurgents; day after day saving soldiers' lives in the most dangerous country on the planet.

Karl Bodenschatz was the Richthofen squadron adjutant.

This description of the province of Fars, was written around the beginning of the 12th century A.

This description of the province of Fars, was written around the beginning of the 12th century A.

This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews.

This book presents one of the most vivid descriptions of day-to-day life in a Japanese POW labour camp to have appeared so far.

In his monumental work Bloody Shambles, Volume Two, Christopher Shores described in detail the British retreat out of Burma, culminating at the end of May 1942.

Distant Thunder details the engrossing experiences of a helicopter pilot’s tales of war told through letters that come straight from the heart.

The Gaysh tells the story of the emergence of an army following early attempts to protect the trade routes in and through Aden.

It was close to the small southern Belgian town of Mons that the shooting war began or the British Expeditionary Force in August 1914.

Since the publication of The Rifles Are There in 2005, which dealt with the 1st and 2nd Battalions Royal Ulster Rifles in the Second World War, it was felt by many that a follow up volume dealing with the Korean conflict was overdue.

A gripping true account of warfare in the skies over Korea, when American bombers and North Korean jet fighters would change the course of air combat.

Some of the most creative of human expression has originated in the collision of cultures.

Empire building in British India was inseparably tied to the processes of frontier-making and the creation of boundaries.

War Memorialization and Nation-Building in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia explores how three Southeast Asian countries- the Philippines, Thailand, and Singapore-have utilized war memorialization in their nation-building efforts.

Of all the military campaigns fought by the British during the 19th century, no area saw more conflict than the subcontinent of India.

This is the first of a two volume series covering early twentieth century colonial campaigns in Africa, Asia and the Americas, ranging from Mexico and the Philippines to Africa and the North West Frontier.

The year is 1600.

In these wide-ranging essays, Erik Davis explores the codesspiritual, cultural, and embodiedthat people use to escape the limitation of their lives and enrich their experience of the world.

Plague in the Early Modern World, now in a second edition, presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.

Dieses eBook: "Nena Sahib oder Die Empörung in Indien - Die zentrale Figur des indischen Aufstands von 1857" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

On 23 April 1918 a force drawn from the Royal Navy and Royal Marines launched one of the most daring raids in history.

The growing interest in the relationship between religion and law is, in the case of Christianity, often viewed in monolithic terms.

The astonishing expose of al Qaeda and the Taliban's booming drug trade"e;Seeds of Terror"e; will reshape the way you think about the West's enemies, revealing them less as ideologues and more as criminals who earn half a billion pounds every year off the opium trade.

The most comprehensive and gripping account of the Afghan war, by a BBC journalist.