Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “kyle ikeda”
Skip side bar filters

  • In the Woods of Memory

    by Shun Medoruma, Kyle Ikeda ...
    Translated by Takuma Sminkey ...
    A powerful and thought-provoking novel that raises important questions about World War II, war memory, and US imperialism and blowback.In the Woods of Memory is a powerful, thought-provoking novel that focuses on two incidents during the Battle of Okinawa, 1945: the sexual assault on Sayoko, 17, by four US soldiers and her friend Seiji’s attempt at revenge.Narrations through nine points of view, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Okinawan War Memory

    Transgenerational Trauma and the War Fiction of Medoruma Shun

    by Kyle Ikeda ...
    Series series Asia's Transformations/Literature and Society
    As one of Okinawa's most insightful writers and social critics, Medoruma Shun has highlighted the problems and limits of conventional representation of the Battle of Okinawa, raised new questions and concerns about the nature of Okinawan war memory, and expanded the possibilities of representing war through his groundbreaking and prize-winning fiction, editorials, essays, and speaking engagements. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Accidental Guerrilla:Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

    Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One

    by David Kilcullen ...
    David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare. A Senior Counterinsurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus in Iraq, his vision of war dramatically influenced America's decision to rethink its military strategy in Iraq and implement "the surge." Now, in The Accidental Guerrilla, Kilcullen provides a remarkably fresh perspective on the War on ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Red Famine

    Stalin's War on Ukraine

    by Anne Applebaum ...
    **NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A revelatory history of one of Stalin's greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more—from the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gulag and the National Book Award finalist Iron Curtain."With searing clarity, Red Famine demonstrates the horrific consequences of a campaign to ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Victor Two

    Inside Iraq: the Crucial SAS Mission

    by Peter Crossland ...
    The Israeli government was persuaded at the last minute not to enter the Gulf War when they were told that it was the SAS who were hunting for Scud missiles and disrupting Iraqi communications. The SAS forces inside Iraq comprised two half-squadrons (30 men each with vehicles) and three much smaller foot patrols, one of which had the call sign, "Bravo Two Zero".;Corporal Terence Clayton, known as ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

    by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz ...
    Series Book 3 - ReVisioning History
    **New York Times BestsellerNow part of the HBO docuseries "Exterminate All the Brutes," written and directed by Raoul PeckRecipient of the American Book AwardThe first history of the United States told from the perspective of indigenous peoples**Today in the United States, there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people, descendants ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Holocaust Industry

    Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering

    by Norman G. Finkelstein ...
    A scathing argument against those who exploit the Holocaust for personal and political gain—by a major figure at the center of the Israel-Palestine debate.“The most controversial book of the year.” —GuardianThis iconoclastic study was one of the most widely debated books of 2000. Finkelstein indicts with both vigor and honesty those who exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust for their own personal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Operation Nemesis

    The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide

    by Eric Bogosian ...
    A masterful account of the assassins who hunted down the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide set in the context of Ottoman and Armenian history."A dramatic work of history that reads like a thriller." —Michael Bobelian, Los Angeles TimesIn 1921, a tightly knit band of killers set out to avenge the deaths of almost one million victims of the Armenian Genocide. They were a humble bunch: an ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • India

    A Short History

    by Andrew Robinson ...
    Series series A Short History
    India’s unfolding story, from the ancient Hindu dynasties to the coming of Islam, from the Mughal Empire to the present dayIndia has always been a land of great contradictions. To Alexander the Great, the country was a place of clever naked philosophers and massive armies mounted on elephants – which eventually forced his army to retreat. To ancient Rome, it was a source of luxuries, mainly spices ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Dragon's Teeth

    The Chinese People's Liberation Army - Its History, Traditions, and Air Sea and Land Capability in the 21st Century

    by Benjamin Lai ...
    An in-depth look at the past, present, and future of China's military.When Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China in 1949, China was a poor and wrecked society after years of continuous wars. For centuries, in fact, China had been seen as a sort of plunder-zone to be invaded, and then a backwater until the late 1980s—when domestic policy brought about monumental changes. The result ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not on Our Watch

    The Mission to End Genocide in Darfur and Beyond

    by Don Cheadle, John Prendergast ...
    An Academy Award-nominated actor and a renowned human rights activist team up to change the tragic course of history in the Sudan -- with readers' help.While Don Cheadle was filming Hotel Rwanda, a new crisis had already erupted in Darfur, in nearby Sudan. In September 2004, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell termed the atrocities being committed there "genocide" -- and yet two years later ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

    by Johan Elverskog ...
    Series series Encounters with Asia
    In the contemporary world the meeting of Buddhism and Islam is most often imagined as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban's destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 seemed not only to reenact the infamous Muslim destruction of Nalanda monastery in the thirteenth century but also to reaffirm the stereotypes of Buddhism as a peaceful, rational philosophy and Islam as an inherently ... Read more

    $35.99 USD