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In book 10 of The Things Our Fathers Saw® series, Over the Hump/China, Burma, India, we will visit with the veterans of most overlooked theater of World War II as they prepare to fly over and march through the most inhospitable terrain on the planet, from the Himalaya Mountains to the jungles and mountains of Burma, battling elite Japanese forces, sickness, and tropical disease.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the existential war waged between the Anglo-Dutch imperial system and what became known as the American System of political economy ever since the creation of the predatory British and Dutch East India Companies. On that basis, the book presents a counterintuitive solution to the crisis confronting humanity today, arguing that only a combination of the Four Powers, the USA, Russia, China and India, has the power to finally dismantle the Anglo-Dutch imperial system as it emerged from the British and Dutch East India Companies. The book documents ...

China-Burma-India is one of the most forgotten theaters of World War 2. As the United States entered the war after Pearl Harbor, it looked to China as a source of manpower as well as a base for bombers and a way to eventually invade Japan. The Japanese, British, Americans, and Chinese each had their own motivations and policies in the Pacific that would ultimately lead to the involvement of Burma in the Pacific War. The conflict in Burma was an intricate affair that may be best understood through the story of the first Yunnan Expedition into Burma.

Before Rome’s legions ever dominated Europe, a massive power was already ruling the Indian subcontinent. It stretched from the mountains of present-day Afghanistan to the Bay of Bengal, carving its path deep into southern India. This was the Mauryan Empire. What if the most powerful figures in ancient China were the ones you’ve never heard of? When archaeologists uncovered the untouched tomb of Lady Fu Hao in 1976, they didn’t just find treasure—they found a story that rewrote history. She wasn’t just a queen. She was a fierce general, a high priestess, and a leader lost to time… until now.

Bloomsbury presents The Golden Road, written and read by William Dalrymple. The internationally bestselling author of The Anarchy returns with a sparkling, soaring history of ideas, tracing South Asia’s under-recognized role in producing the world as we know it. For a millennium and a half...

The frozen wilderness of the Arctic captivated and mystified voyagers and explorers in the 1800s, driven by greed for riches, fame, and the search for the elusive Northwest Passage. Delve into the jaw-dropping courage and awe-inspiring expeditions from the Golden Age of Arctic exploration with "Frozen Frontier" Follow the footsteps of heroic explorers and their courageous penetrations into an unknown world of mammoth ice floes, terrifying polar bears, and bone-chilling cold. Witness their incredible triumphs and heartbreaking tragedies, and discover the untold stories of the earliest ...

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War...

The world we knew at the end of the 20th century has changed radically. For decades, the United States and the Western European powers were the dominant players on the global stage, shaping the economic, political, and cultural system we understand today as the "world order." However, in the early decades of the 21st century, it has become clear that this dominance is no longer absolute. China and India, two countries with millennia-old roots but very different recent trajectories, have emerged as decisive protagonists, challenging traditional power structures and offering new visions of ...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER #1 WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER Deadly operative Scot Harvath faces down democracy’s most powerful enemy in #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Brad Thor’s white-knuckle thriller. High in the Himalayas, armed with a host of...

Bloomsbury presents The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan, read by Mike Grady. The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller – a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in...

Power in South Asia is not decided in open war—it is shaped in silence. Covert Operations – India takes you inside a relentless intelligence battlefield where regional power, covert strategy, and geopolitical pressure collide across one of the most volatile regions in the world. Beneath India’s image as a rising global power lies a continuous shadow war driven by rivalries with Pakistan and China, internal security challenges, and the constant need to anticipate threats before they materialize. This is not a traditional history book. It is an operational narrative that places you ...

The “unparalleled master of the historical saga" (Newsweek) and internationally bestselling author of Paris and New York takes on an exhilarating new world with his trademark epic style in China: The Novel In China: The Novel, Edward Rutherfurd brings his renowned talents to the Middle Kingdom...

'This bracing tour d'horizon of the once and future world order, although aimed at the informed layman, is well worth reading . . . Simms has done much to rescue the reputation of geopolitical writing, often the preserve of the charlatan, the witless pundit and the video gamer. His newest work...

From an acclaimed historian, a sweeping study of the past, present, and future of the Great Powers, revealing the new rules of global leadership. From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the...

Ancient Astrology - Divination History - Occult History - Ancient Egypt - Ancient China - Ancient Rome - Mysticism - World Mythology Long before smartphone horoscopes, Babylonian priests stood on ziggurats and read the future in the movement of planets they believed were gods. Long before tarot decks, Roman generals refused to march until a sacred chicken had eaten its grain the right way. Ancient Oracles: Astrology and Divination Explained takes you inside the ancient world's most powerful, most feared, and most misunderstood practice: the belief that the universe leaves clues, if you know...

Many nations define themselves in terms of territory or people; China defines itself in terms of history. Taking into account the country's unrivaled, voluminous tradition of history writing, John Keay has composed a vital and illuminating overview of the nation's complex and vivid past. Keay's authoritative history examines 5,000 years in China, from the time of the Three Dynasties through Chairman Mao and the current economic transformation of the country.

A New York Times Editors’ Choice “Riveting.” —The New York Times From the New York Times bestselling author, a breathtaking account of combat and survival in one of the most brutally challenging and rarely examined campaigns of World War II In April 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army...

Marco Polo (1254-1324), is probably the most famous Westerner who traveled on the "Silk Road." His journey through Asia lasted 24 years. He traveled the whole of China and returned to tell the tale, which became one of the world's greatest travelogues.

Intrigas, batallas, dos mujeres adolescentes, idiomas extraños, Roma, Partia, India, China, dos Césares y una emperatriz se entrecruzan en el mayor relato épico del mundo antiguo, La legión perdida, la novela con la que Santiago Posteguillo cierra su aclamada trilogía sobre Trajano. Hay...

El mundo que conocimos a finales del siglo XX ha cambiado radicalmente. Durante décadas, Estados Unidos y las potencias de Europa occidental fueron los actores dominantes en el escenario global, moldeando el sistema económico, político y cultural que hoy entendemos como el "orden mundial". Sin embargo, en las primeras décadas del siglo XXI, ha quedado claro que ese dominio ya no es absoluto. China e India, dos países con raíces milenarias pero con trayectorias recientes muy diferentes, han surgido como protagonistas decisivos, desafiando las estructuras de poder tradicionales y ...