Southeast category: 2400 books
Adrift
My Childhood in Colonial Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2016
In 1935, six-year-old Tzi Ki was taken away from his mother in Canton, by his grandmother, to live at Blair Road in Singapore.
This is the first part of David T. K. Wong’s multi-volume family memoir. It traces of his tumultuous growing-up years from his birth in Hong Kong, his early years...
Krakatoa
The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and The Map That Changed the World examines the enduring and world-changing effects of the catastrophic eruption off the coast of Java of the earth's most dangerous volcano -- Krakatoa.
The legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island...
MacArthur's Spies
The Soldier, the Singer, and the Spymaster Who Defied the Japanese in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
**"MacArthur's Spies reads like Casablanca set in the Pacific, filled with brave and daring characters caught up in the intrigue of war—and the best part is that it's all true!" —Tom Maier, author of Masters of Sex
A thrilling story of espionage, daring and deception set in...
Genocide and the Geographical Imagination
Life and Death in Germany, China, and Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2012
This groundbreaking book brings an important spatial perspective to our understanding of genocide through a fresh interpretation of Germany under Hitler, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge, and China’s Great Leap Forward famine under Mao. James A. Tyner's powerful analysis of these horrifying cases...
Implacable Foes
War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
On May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day-shortened to "V.E. Day"-brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-won. Exhausted but exuberant American soldiers, ready to return home, were sent to join the fighting in the Pacific, which by the spring and...
Terraced Hell
A Japanese Memoir of Defeat & Death in Northern Luzon, Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1992
This memoir from a Japanese civilian placed with the army in World War II offers a rare glimpse of the Japanese experience and psychology during this desperate time.
Near the end of World War II , when the Japanese military machine was crushed but still hanging on, thousands of Japanese soldiers...
by Expedito A. Ibarbia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
An American woman plays a redeeming role amidst America's duplicity and betrayal of the Philippine struggle for independence during the revolution against Spain, which culminated in the Spanish-American and Philippine American wars. The fiction/nonfiction novel highlights the military and romantic...
Short Black 5 The Brave Ones
East Timor, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
As the convoy growled and squeaked to a halt in the dark, angry militiamen and soldiers began to shout and wave at the Australians, demanding they move aside. The Brave Ones' vanguard presented as a B-movie vision of some pirate biker gang from Hell, a rat bastard outfit in black tee-shirts, camouflage...
by Jonathan Schell
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
BEN SUC was a relatively prosperous farming village thirty miles from Saigon, on the edge of the Iron Triangle, the formidable Vietcong stronghold. It had been “pacified” many times, but because of security leaks no Vietcong were ever captured, and it always reverted to them. Therefore on...
by Marc Cullison
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A torrent of books about the Vietnam War has flooded the market, most of them documenting battles, strategy, and personal journals of life during the war. There are far fewer books about soldiers who have returned to that country of conflict four decades later. Most men and women who served during...
A War Away
An American Woman in Vietnam, 1967-1974
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Tess Johnston has spent her life seeking adventure and excitement and she had plenty of that in Germany before the Wall came down and in China for more than thirty years. But the pinnacle of her experiences was seven years in Vietnam, 1967-74, during the war, where she found even Saigon too tame and...
Red Earth and Pouring Rain
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2009
Combining Indian myths, epic history, and the story of three college kids in search of America, a narrative includes the monkey's story of an Indian poet and warrior and an American road novel of college students driving cross-country.
Demokrasi
Indonesia in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Indonesia, a nation of thousands of islands and almost 250 million people, straddles the junction of the Pacific and Indian oceans. Current President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has presided over 6 per cent average yearly growth of its economy, to surpass $1 trillion. If this rate continues, Indonesia...