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  • The British Commonwealth and Victory in the Second World War

    by Iain E. Johnston-White ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book is the first comprehensive study of the British Commonwealth in the Second World War. Britain and its Dominions, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, formed the most durable, cooperative and interchangeable alliance of the war. Iain E. Johnston-White looks in depth at how the Commonwealth war effort was financed, the training of airmen for the air war, the problems of ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • A Forgotten British War

    The Accounts of Korean War Veterans

    Edited by Michael Patrick Cullinane, Iain Johnston-White ...
    Series series History (R0)
    This book presents oral histories from the last surviving UK veterans of the Korean War. With the help of the UK National Army Museum and the British Korean Society, this book collects nearly twenty testimonials of UK veterans of the Korean War. Many only teenagers when mobilized, these veterans attempt to put words to the violence and trauma they experienced. They recall the landscape and people ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Revisiting the British World

    New Voices and Perspectives

    Edited by Jatinder Mann, Iain Johnston-White ...
    Series Book 5 - Studies in Transnationalism
    Since the publication of Phillip Buckner and R. Douglas Francis’ ground-breaking Rediscovering the British World, there has not been a collection of essays that looks at the history of the British World from an all-round thematic perspective. This edited collection defines the British World as a global community in which members identified themselves predominantly as British and considered the ... Read more

    $92.29 USD

  • The International Relations of Northeast Asia

    by Thomas Berger, Kent E. Calder, William W. Grimes, Alastair Iain Johnston, C S. Eliot Kang, Taehwan Kim, Thomas G. Moore, Lynn T. White III, Lowell Dittmer, Chung-in Moon, Gilbert Rozman ...
    Series series Asia in World Politics
    Is Northeast Asia primed for peace or ripe for great-power rivalry? In this turbulent region, all the world-order challenges of arms control and disarmament, global North-South tensions, human rights and humanitarian intervention, environmental protection and eco-development, and democratization and humane governance are concentrated. More than any other part of the world, the divided Korean ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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  • Understanding China

    A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture

    by John Bryan Starr ...
    "A clearheaded, multidimensional tour of China's political, economic, and social landscapes." — Current History"Packed with facts and figures, but enlivened with firsthand observations. . . . An excellent introduction to China for anyone in search of solid but concise information about that complicated country." — The New York Times Book ReviewFor more than a decade, John Bryan Starr's ... Read more

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  • Japan's Gestapo

    Murder, Mayhem and Torture in Wartime Asia

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    The Partial Power

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  • China: Fragile Superpower : How China's Internal Politics Could Derail Its Peaceful Rise

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