Southeast Asia category: 1948 books

Cover of Village of Ben Suc
by Jonathan Schell
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...
Cover of A War Away

A War Away

An American Woman in Vietnam, 1967-1974

by Tess Johnston
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...
Cover of Vietnam
by Bill Hayton
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010

Cover of Red Earth and Pouring Rain
by Vikram Chandra
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.
Cover of Another Man's War

Another Man's War

The Story of a Burma Boy in Britain's Forgotten Army

by Barnaby Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

In December 1941 the Japanese invaded Burma. For the British, the longest land campaign of the Second World War had begun. 100,000 African soldiers were taken from Britain’s colonies to fight the Japanese in the Burmese jungles. They performed heroically in one of the most brutal theatres of war,...
Cover of Luzon 1945

Luzon 1945

The final liberation of the Philippines

by Clayton K. S. Chun
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2017

Driven from the Philippines in 1942, General Douglas MacArthur returned three years later to force the Japanese off of its main island of Luzon. Containing the capital of Manila, vital natural resources as well as thousands of Allied prisoners of war, the triumph at Luzon would be a vital step on...
Cover of Red Plateau
by John Edmund Delezen
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013

two former enemies meet by accident and become close friends. one of the friends, a former north vietnamese soldier, asks the other, a former united states marine, to write his story. the story follows a path of extreme hardship and sadness as it tells of life in french colonial Indochina and the...
Cover of Complete Malay History Culture & English Dialects
by Walter W. Skeat
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2015

Contents English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day (1911) Malay Magic (1900) Malay Magic (1900) Briefly, the purpose of the author has been to collect into a Book of Malay Folklore all that seemed to him most typical of the subject amongst a considerable mass of materials,...
Cover of Indonesia in Perspective: Orientation Guide and Javanese, Bahasa Cultural Orientation: Geography, History, Economy, Security, Jakarta, Sukarno, Bali, Nusa Tenggara, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Papua
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015

These unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Indonesia, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime,...
Cover of Sink 'Em All

Sink 'Em All

Submarine Warfare in the Pacific

by Charles A. Lockwood
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019

Sink ’Em All, was originally published in 1951 by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, the U.S. Navy commander of the Pacific submarine fleet during World War II. Lockwood, in his leadership role, knew the skippers and crews of the submarines, and retells their wartime successes and tragedies with...
Cover of Marine Corps Tank Battles in Vietnam
by Oscar E. Gilbert
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013

The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy. In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible tanks of 3rd Platoon, B Company, 3rd Tank Battalion landed across a beach near Da Nang, drawing...
Cover of Finding the Dragon Lady

Finding the Dragon Lady

The Mystery of Vietnam's Madame Nhu

by Monique Brinson Demery
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013

In November 1963, the president of South Vietnam and his brother were brutally executed in a coup that was sanctioned and supported by the American government. President Kennedy later explained to his close friend Paul “Red” Fay that the reason the United States made the fateful decision to get...
Cover of China, Class Collaboration, and the Killing Fields of Indonesia in 1965
by James Robb
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014

The documentary film by Joshua Oppenheimer, The Act of Killing, released in 2012, provides a chillingly intimate portrait of some ageing thugs who, nearly fifty years ago, took part in one of the greatest acts of mass murder of the last century: the 1965-66 slaughter in Indonesia.The principal...
Cover of The Sacred Willow

The Sacred Willow

Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family

by Mai Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2000

A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, Duong Van Mai Elliott's The Sacred Willow illuminates recent Vietnamese history by weaving together the stories of the lives of four generations of her family. Beginning with her great-grandfather, who rose from rural poverty to become an influential landowner, and...
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