Southeast category: 2400 books
The Wasting of Borneo
Dispatches from a Vanishing World
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Acclaimed naturalist Alex Shoumatoff issues a worldwide call to protect the drastically endangered rainforests of Borneo
In his eleventh book, but his first in almost two decades, seasoned travel writer Alex Shoumatoff takes readers on a journey from the woods of rural New York to the rain...
Brothers in Arms
Chinese Aid to the Khmer Rouge, 1975–1979
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2014
When the Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, they inherited a war-ravaged and internationally isolated country. Pol Pot’s government espoused the rhetoric of self-reliance, but Democratic Kampuchea was utterly dependent on Chinese foreign aid and technical assistance to survive. Yet in...
Civility and Empire
Literature and Culture in British India, 1821-1921
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2004
This book addresses the idea of 'civility' as a manifestation of the fluidity and ambivalence of imperial power as reflected in British colonial literature and culture. Discussions of Anglo-Indian romances of 1880-1900, E.M. Forster's The Life to Come and Leonard Woolf's writings show how the appeal...
Bali & Lombok Tuttle Travel Pack
Your Guide to Bali & Lombok's Best Sights for Every Budget
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The only guide you'll need for getting around Bali & Lombok. Everything you need is in this one convenient package—including a large pull-out map!
Bali & Lombok Tuttle Travel Pack is your passport to an unforgettable journey to Asia's favorite tropical islands. Author Paul Greenway...
by David Wee
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Experience Taiwan’s charm, culture and lifestyle - use this pocket-travel list of 22 must-go night markets in 12 cities in Taiwan - why they are special, how to get there and what top 3 street cuisine to enjoy in each popular night market!
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
These unique guides produced by the Department of Defense provide comprehensive information about all aspects of life in Vietnam, with a special emphasis on geography, history, the economy, society, security and military matters, religion, traditions, urban and rural life, ethnic groups, crime, the...
Vietnam
A New History
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
A 2017 Cundill History Prize Finalist
"Groundbreaking...Goscha has provided quite simply the finest, most readable single-volume history of Vietnam in English."--Guardian
In Vietnam, Christopher Goscha tells the full history of Vietnam, from antiquity to the present day. Generations...
The Theory and Practice of Associative Power
CORDS in the Villages of Vietnam 1967–1972
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
To succeed in achieving its national security objectives the United States needs to use Associative Power in place of both Hard Power and Soft Power. Associative Power is the use of joint ventures and alliances to optimize the forms of power brought to bear in conflicts responding with precision to...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
This volume provides an unusual and, it is hoped, illuminating perspective about US policy during the latter part of the Vietnam War. Mr. Willard J. Webb wrote practically the entire manuscript while the war was still in progress and its outcome was unknowable. The other volumes of The Joint Chiefs...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
This volume describes those JCS activities related to developments in Vietnam during the period 1964-1966. At times, the role of the Joint Chiefs in events in Vietnam may appear to be submerged in the description of foreign relations, politics, economics, and other areas having little to do with military...
Rice Wars in Colonial Vietnam
The Great Famine and the Viet Minh Road to Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
This book offers the first detailed English-language examination of the Great Vietnamese Famine of 1945, which left at least a million dead, and links it persuasively to the largely unexpected Viet Minh seizure of power only months later. Drawing on extensive research in French archives, Geoffrey...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2013
Written to complement The Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Policy series, The Joint Chiefs of Staff and the War in Vietnam focuses upon the activities of the Joint Chiefs that were concerned with events in Vietnam. Two prior volumes dealt with Indochina and the prelude to Vietnam. The nature of...
Hell in An Loc
The 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men and 100 tanks smashed into South Vietnam and raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a handful of American advisors with U.S. air support, guarding...
The Third Force in the Vietnam War
The Elusive Search for Peace 1954-75
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
It was the conflict that shocked America and the world, but the struggle for peace is central to the history of the Vietnam War. Rejecting the idea that war between Hanoi and the US was inevitable, the author traces North Vietnam's programs for a peaceful reunification of their nation from the 1954...