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  • Playing with Fire

    Pakistan at War with Itself

    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 with Fire, acclaimed journalist Pamela Constable peels back layers of contradiction and confusion ... Leer más

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  • Fragments of Grace

    For four and a half years, Pamela Constable, a veteran foreign correspondent and award-winning author, has traveled through South Asia on assignment for the Washington Post. Following religious conflicts, political crises, and natural disasters, she also searched for signs of humanity and dignity in societies rife with violence, poverty, prejudice, and greed. In Afghanistan, she made numerous ... Leer más

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    Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts ... Leer más

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  • Shadow Commander

    The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero

    de Mike Guardia ...
    The true story of the US Army legend who organized "Blackburn's Headhunters" against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam.The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky. Outnumbered and outgunned, remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Yet ... Leer más

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  • The Child Who Never Grew

    A Memoir

    de Pearl S. Buck ...
    The classic memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author.It was my child who taught me to understand so clearly that all people are equal in their humanity and that all have the same human rights.Pearl S. Buck is known today for earning a Nobel Prize in Literature and for such New York Times–bestselling novels as The ... Leer más

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  • A Comrade Lost and Found

    A Beijing Memoir

    de Jan Wong ...
    A "suspenseful, elegantly written" account of the author's return to China after thirty years to search for the woman she betrayed to the authorities ( Publishers Weekly, starred review).In the early 1970s, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, Jan Wong traveled from Canada to Beijing University—where she would become one of only two Westerners permitted to study. One day a fellow student, Yin ... Leer más

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  • In Pharaoh's Army

    Memories of the Lost War

    de Tobias Wolff ...
    Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic. ... Leer más

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  • Ambon

    The truth about one of the most brutal POW camps in World War II and the triumph of the Aussie spirit

    de Roger Maynard ...
    Series series Hachette Military Collection
    Survival, heroism, courage and mateship in Ambon - a place of nightmares.In February, 1942, Ambon, an Indonesian island north of Darwin, fell to the Japanese army and the Allied forces defending it were captured. Over a thousand of these soldiers were Australian. By the end of the war, just one-third of them had survived and Ambon became a place of nightmares, one of the most notorious of all POW ... Leer más

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  • Hun Sen's Cambodia

    To many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to create a communist utopia in the 1970s. Sebastian Strangio, a journalist based in the capital city of Phnom Penh, now offers an eye-opening appraisal of modern-day Cambodia in the years following its emergence ... Leer más

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  • In the Valley of Mist

    Kashmir: One Family In A Changing World

    de Justine Hardy ...
    A personal, moving, and vibrant picture of one of the most beautiful and troubled places in the world, described through the experiences of one family, whose fortunes have changed dramatically with those of the region.If there is a paradise on earth, it is definitely here, here and only here," said the early seventeenth-century Mughal Emperor Jehangir when describing the Kashmir Valley. But for ... Leer más

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  • Night, Again

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    Edición de Linh Dinh ...
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  • Swimming to Cambodia

    “It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand ... Leer más

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