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Learn from losing three wars—or lose the next one in 2033. Bing West is the only historian to serve on the front lines in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan—and at the highest levels of government. He fought in the battles he writes about, and he explains with firsthand insight why our grunts...

Bloomsbury presents… Emperor of the Seas: Kublai Khan and the Making of China by Jack Weatherford, read by Mark Elstob Control the sea, and you control everything...a gripping tale of naval warfare, dynastic rivalry, and technical innovation, from the author of the classic work Genghis Khan...

Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, "A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another." (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research...

Strengthen your sense of well-being and embrace empowering new approaches with this invaluable investigation into mental health in the Asian American community. Asian Americans are experiencing a racial reckoning regarding their identity, inspiring them to radically reconsider the cultural...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator ‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times ‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a...

Two thousand years ago, two sisters raised an army, drove out an empire, and founded a kingdom — and Vietnam has never forgotten them. In 40 CE, the Han Empire ruled the lands of the Red River delta. Then Trung Trac and her sister Trung Nhi did what no one believed possible. They rallied the local lords, marched on the Chinese governor, and captured sixty-five citadels. The governor fled. Trung Trac was proclaimed queen, and for three years a free Vietnamese kingdom stood against the largest empire on Earth. Then the Han struck back. The veteran general Ma Yuan came south with a hardened ...

A blistering, provocative collection from one of America’s most original and unsparing commentators. In Many Roads: A Fred Reed Treasury, Vol. 2, Fred Reed turns his razor-sharp eye to war, empire, military folly, and the long unraveling of American judgment. Drawing on his experiences as a Marine in Vietnam, a war correspondent in Southeast Asia, and a longtime observer of the Pentagon and Washington, Reed writes with a rare combination of firsthand authority, mordant humor, and literary force. This volume gathers Reed’s unforgettable essays on Vietnam, China, and the repeated ...

A bracing assessment of U.S. foreign policy and world disorder over the past two decades from the bestselling author of The Revenge of Geography and The Coming Anarchy “[Kaplan] has emerged not only as an eloquent defender of foreign-policy realism but as a grand strategist to whom the...

The definitive biography of Henry Kissinger - at least for those who neither revere nor revile him.

Chris Knowles was born on October 24th, 1949. He was raised in Washington, DC. He entered The Sidwell Friends School, Washington's most exclusive coeducational college preparatory school, in September of 1952 at the age of two. In the Fall of 1962, he was 13 years old and beginning his Eighth Grade year when the photointerpreters at the National Photo Interpretation Center at the Washington Navy Yard detected Soviet offensive ballistic missiles stationed on the island of Cuba. This marked the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. In the intervening years, he attended The University of ...

Bloomsbury presents Sign Here for Sacrifice by Ian Gardner, read by Ian Porter. A hard-hitting history of the U.S. airborne unit who made a name for themselves in the unforgiving jungles of South Vietnam. “It was easier killing than living.” Third Battalion 506th Airborne veteran Drawing on...

Haunted caves; an obese opportunistic warlord; strange voices ... As the war rages on, John Powers and his fellow pilgrims cross paths with a menacing obese warlord and his scheming assistant, with devastating consequences, and encounter haunted caves with iron doors and endless branches that lead to unknown destinations in time and space. Meanwhile, the voices continue to harangue John and pilgrim Bai Meiying to produce a son. Are the voices real? Why are they so insistent that John and Meiying have a child? Is John truly schizophrenic? Are the caves actually haunted? Who–or what–is ...

Faced with buying a car and getting a real job - or taking the money and blowing it on a six-month adventure around Asia...well, there really is no contest! Who wouldn't want to visit exotic places, like Borneo, Cambodia, and China? Who wouldn't want to tackle the world's most dangerous hiking path, tangle with the Vietnamese Mafia, and suffer days in the dreaded Mongolian saddle? And who wouldn't want to try five-organ soup? All he has to do is survive long enough to realize his dreams.

Americans are accustomed to thinking that World War II ended on August 14, 1945, when the Japanese surrendered unconditionally. Yet on the mainland of Asia, in the vast arc stretching from Manchuria to Burma, peace was a brief, fretful interlude. In some parts of Asia, such as Java and Southern Indonesia, only a few weeks passed before new fighting broke out between nationalist forces and the former colonial powers.

With the introduction of Conscription in the 1960s, it was realised that Australia’s defence forces would now have access to a wider pool of talented men, other than those that normally volunteer for service. Major Jack Roberts was tasked by the defence department to form a small group from the National Servicemen to take on some unique tasks. He chose three young men that had shown signs of being able to work with anyone from different backgrounds or ethnic groups. These three men were a Christian, a Jew and a Moslem. After being whisked away from their regiment, as it sailed for Vietnam...

New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Winner of the 2018 Truman Book Award A gripping narrative of the Truman Administration's response to the fall of Nationalist China and the triumph of Mao Zedong's Communist forces in 1949--an extraordinary political revolution that continues to...

In a series of riveting interviews, America's senior statesman discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension. As National Security Advisor to Richard Nixon, Henry Kissinger transformed America's approach to diplomacy with China, the USSR, Vietnam, and...

A skeleton waits in a tunnel; a fortress is besieged; a goddess argues with a god. . . War-torn Vietnam in the 1960’s and a group of American soldiers is trapped in an abandoned French fortress during a raging monsoon. North Vietnamese soldiers seek to retrieve a strange goddess statue from the fortress. Michael Powers, one of the trapped soldiers, hears the same voices that plagued his father, John. Is the fortress haunted? Why does a skeleton wait in the tunnel beneath the fortress? What are the tapping sounds that come from the goddess statue, and why do the North Vietnamese want the ...

A quest to conceive the next Chosen One. . . . Michael Powers escapes the mental institution and finds himself reunited with a mysterious Mongolian woman and the magical cave that contains portals to other spacetime dimensions. Via these portals, he journeys through time to relive the past and contemplate the future. The survival of the new species continues to hang in the balance as Michael is directed by the voices to find another with his special genes and conceive a new Chosen One. But what will this union produce? Did he murder the three psychiatrists? Will he escape his pursuers or be...

Get rich, Chinese style How did Chinese people get all that bling? How did China get rich? And why do Chinese people seem so successful in business even outside Asia? The answers aren't often discussed in an honest and practical way. Chinese people will tell you that they're "smart" or "hardworking" or "lucky," while outsiders will tell you that it must be some kind of Asian mystery. This book is about why Chinese bosses hate hiring Chinese employees, why China's technically competent factories turn out shoddy products, and how it is that poor Chinese immigrants tend to do better in their ...