Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
by Passerino Editore
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2019
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 13, 2019
La Grande Muraglia, nata come Wanli changcheng, consiste in una lunghissima serie di mura situate nell'odierna Cina. È stata dichiarata dall'UNESCO patrimonio dell'umanità nel 1987 e inserita nel 2007 fra le sette meraviglie del mondo moderno.
I mini-ebook di Passerino Editore sono guide agili, essenziali e complete, per orientarsi nella storia del mondo.
by Trương Thái Du
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2015
This is the free old version of my new book. The book ISBN 9781370154548 affirms that Nan Jiao 南交 , Jiao Zhi 交阯 , Xiang Jun 象郡 , Jiu Zhen 九真, and Ri Nan 日南 are united concepts related to Chinese Classical Astronomy. On the way of opening the meanings of Nan Jiao, Jiao Zhi, Xiang...
by James Allan
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
The following narrative is a record of my experiences during the late memorable war between China and Japan. Without going into any detailed account of my earlier life, some few facts concerning myself are probably necessary for the better understanding of the circumstances which led up to the events...
by T.H. Manners Howe
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2016
How India Got Her People
The Invasion of Alexander the Great
How the Mohammedan Armies Invaded India
The Empire of the Moghuls
The Light of the World
How Europe Found the Sea-Road to India
How the Empire of the Moghuls Broke Up
Dupleix's Great Plot
How Clive Saved the English
From the Black Hole to...
The Making of Hmong America
Forty Years after the Secret War
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
This study documents Hmong’s involvement in the Secret War in Laos, their refugee exodus from Laos to the refugee camps in Thailand, and the challenges to find third countries to take Hmong refugees. At the time, Hmong and other highlander refugees from Laos were considered unsuitable to be resettled...
by James Wise
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This introductory book on Thai politics and the rule of law explains why chronically unstable Thailand struggles to mediate and adjudicate its political disputes. It focuses on the continuities between the pre-1932 and post-1932 periods. Since the shift to constitutional monarchy in 1932, the power...
Bali Reiseführer
Bali und Lombok in Indonesien
Language: German
Release Date: May 10, 2017
Bali Reiseführer - Bali und Lombok in Südostasien
Reiseführer über Bali in Lombok in Indonesien von Lisa van Bommel
by Harry Thürk
Language: German
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Kambodschas bitterste Jahre Mitte der 1970er Jahre befindet sich Kambodscha im Bürgerkrieg. Die Roten Khmer haben unter Pol Pot die Herrschaft übernommen und zwingen die Bevölkerung in Arbeitslager, in denen die Zahl der Todesopfer stetig ansteigt. Drei Augenzeugen berichten aus unterschiedlicher...
First They Killed My Father
A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Repackaged in a new tie-in edition to coincide with the Netflix film produced and directed by Angelina Jolie, a moving story of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her triumphant spirit as she survived the Cambodian genocide under Pol Pot’s brutal regime.
Until...
American Guerrilla
The Forgotten Heroics of Russell W. Volckmann—the Man Who Escaped from Bataan, Raised a Filipino Army against the Japanese, and Became the True “Father” of Army Special Forces
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
A main selection of the Military Book Club and a selection of the History Book Club
With his parting words, “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on Bataan. Yet one young Army Captain named Russell Volckmann refused to surrender. He disappeared...
Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters
An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
THE EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF SYLVIA BROOKE, THE LAST WHITE RULER OF THE JUNGLE KINGDOM OF BORNEO
Sylvia Brooke was one of the more exotic and outrageous figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the wife of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose...
Resolve
From the Jungles of WW II Bataan,The Epic Story of a Soldier, a Flag, and a Prom ise Kept
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
**On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles.
One of them was twenty-three-year-old Clay Conner Jr., who had never even camped...
Singapore Dream and Other Adventures
Travel Writings from an Asian Journey
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2018
Hermann Hesse's voyage to the East Indies, recorded in journal entries and other writings translated into English for the first time, describes the experiences that influenced his greatest works.
“I knew but few of the trees and animals that I saw around me by name, I was unable to read the...
The Lady and the Peacock
The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—known to the world as an icon for democracy and nonviolent dissent in oppressed Burma, and to her followers as simply “The Lady”—has recently returned to international headlines. Now, this major new biography offers essential reading at a moment...