Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Last Stand at Khe Sanh
The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
The riveting story of the heroic three-month defense of Khe Sanh by 6,000 Marines--an epic confrontation at a pivotal moment in America's war in Vietnam
Last Stand at Khe Sanh is a vivid, fast-paced account of the dramatic 1968 confrontation, when 6,000 US Marines held off 30,000 North Vietnamese...
by Dr. Hussain Khan
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2003
This book is the biography and history of the name " Janjua". The author walks us through the pages of history and tells us how the name evolved.
Scorched Earth
Legacies of Chemical Warfare in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2011
Scorched Earth is the first book to chronicle the effects of chemical warfare on the Vietnamese people and their environment, where, even today, more than 3 million people—including 500,000 children—are sick and dying from birth defects, cancer, and other illnesses that can be directly traced...
by Seymour M. Hersh
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
The Pulitzer Prize winner who first disclosed the massacre at My Lai 4 uncovers the full story of how those involved - from private to general - kept it secret. What he reveals is shocking - from the amorphous but very real "West Point Protective Association" to the fact that an extensive...
Invasion of Laos, 1971
Lam Son 719
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
In 1971, while U.S. ground forces were prohibited from crossing the Laotian border, a South Vietnamese Army corps, with U.S. air support, launched the largest airmobile operation in the history of warfare, Lam Son 719. The objective: to sever the North Vietnamese Army’s main logistical artery, the...
Indonesian Notebook
A Sourcebook on Richard Wright and the Bandung Conference
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
While Richard Wright's account of the 1955 Bandung Conference has been key to shaping Afro-Asian historical narratives, Indonesian accounts of Wright and his conference attendance have been largely overlooked. Indonesian Notebook contains myriad documents by Indonesian writers, intellectuals, and...
The Seasons of Trouble
Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
For three decades, Sri Lanka’s civil war tore communities apart. In 2009, the Sri Lankan army finally defeated the separatist Tamil Tigers guerrillas in a fierce battle that swept up about 300,000 civilians and killed more than 40,000. More than a million had been displaced by the conflict, and...
Singapore at War
Secrets from the Fall, Liberation and the Aftermath of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This volume brings together for the first time three of Romen Bose’s major historical works Secrets of the Battlebox, The End of the War, and Kranji in a panoramic account of Singapore’s experience in WWII. Sealed off and forgotten until the late 1990s, the Battlebox beneath Fort Canning served...
Between 2 Oceans (2nd Edn)
A Military History of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Many books have been written about Singapore’s much vaunted position as a crucial maritime centre along the East-West trading route, but one aspect of its history—the military perspective—has, for the most part, escaped serious scholarly attention. Between Two Oceans plugs this historical gap....
Playing with Fire
Pakistan at War with Itself
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2011
A volatile nation at the heart of major cultural, political, and religious conflicts in the world today, Pakistan commands our attention. Yet more than six decades after the country’s founding as a Muslim democracy, it continues to struggle over its basic identity, alliances, and direction. In Playing...
Reformasi
The Struggle for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2002
In July 1996, President Soeharto crossed a point of no return. Small but vocal student groups were staging daily demonstrations to demand 'reformasi' - Indonesia's byword for democratic reform. Disturbed by the unprecedented show of dissent, Soeharto cracked down. But by demonstrating that he would...
Refracted Visions
Popular Photography and National Modernity in Java
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2010
A young couple poses before a painted backdrop depicting a modern building set in a volcanic landscape; a college student grabs his camera as he heads to a political demonstration; a man poses stiffly for his identity photograph; amateur photographers look for picturesque images in a rural village;...
Death of a Generation:How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
How the Assassinations of Diem and JFK Prolonged the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2003
When John F. Kennedy was shot, millions were left to wonder how America, and the world, would have been different had he lived to fulfill the enormous promise of his presidency. For many historians and political observers, what Kennedy would and would not have done in Vietnam has been a source of...
Race and the Education of Desire
Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 1995
Michel Foucault’s History of Sexuality has been one of the most influential books of the last two decades. It has had an enormous impact on cultural studies and work across many disciplines on gender, sexuality, and the body. Bringing a new set of questions to this key work, Ann Laura Stoler examines...