Southeast Asia 50

An attack in a grocery store parking lot launches an examination of the Vietnam War’s dark legacyーby the author of The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee. The Broken Country uses a violent incident that……続きを見る

This story is a memoir about the author and her family's harrowing escape from Cambodia's Killing Fields to America. The journey was fraught with physical dangers, and political intrigues. Physical ……続きを見る

A look at how British and Indian forces used tank warfare against the Japanese during World War II in modern-day Myanmar. Fighting in a somewhat forgotten corner of empire during the Second World Wa……続きを見る

The US journalist’s account of his colleague’s struggle to survive the Cambodian genocideーthe basis for the Oscar–winning film The Killing Fields. On April 17, 1975, Khmer Rouge soldiers seized Phn……続きを見る

A true story of downed B-24s in Japanese-occupied Borneo and a native tribe that “makes usーlike the airmenーrethink our definitions of civilized and savage” (Entertainment Weekly). November 1944: T……続きを見る

For most, the term “public space” conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals ……続きを見る

A military history of the two campaigns British and Commonwealth forces fought against Communist terrorists in Malaya during the mid-twentieth century. The struggle with Communist terrorists in Mala……続きを見る

“This photo essay produces a very effective picture of the defeat of British forces in Malaya and Singapore by the Japanese . . . Highly recommended.”ーFiretrench In just 10 weeks from 8 December 19……続きを見る

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 eve……続きを見る

Firsthand accounts of the Japanese invasion of Burma during World War IIーincluding the Sittang Bridge disaster and the actions of Sir John Smyth. More than two years into World War II, Britain stoo……続きを見る

This “extensively researched and well-illustrated” history recounts the bloody fight to liberate Manila from occupation during WWII (WWII History Magazine). For nearly four years during the Second W……続きを見る

General Douglas A MacArthur, Commander of the Southwest Pacific Area, saw the liberation of the Philippines Archipelago as the launching board for the invasion of the Japanese Home Islands. By late ……続きを見る

“An inherently fascinating, impressively well written, exceptionally informative, and meticulously detailed history” of Japanese overseas mercenaries (Midwest Book Review). The Lost Samurai reveals ……続きを見る

New York Times Bestseller: This in-depth account of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer portrayed in Netflix miniseries The Serpent, is “compulsive reading” (The Plain Dealer). There was no pattern t……続きを見る

Three stirring military portraitsーincluding a biography of the Vietnam War hero who wrote the New York Times bestseller, We Were Soldiers Once . . . and Young. Hal Moore: A heroic commander in the ……続きを見る

A history of the “secret war” in Southeast Asia in which nearly three million tons of bombs decimated a newly independent nation. By 1959 the newly independent Kingdom of Laos was transforming into ……続きを見る

Discover what it was like to be amidst the action as a military photographer during the Vietnam War. Shooting Vietnam takes you there as you read the firsthand accounts and view the hundreds of phot……続きを見る

**“The harrowing story of the brutality and cruelty of life in a Japanese POW camp has been told in many books but this is a novel and sensitive presentation.” ー**Firetrench Differing in a number o……続きを見る

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Japan, China, and both Tsarist Russia and later the USSR, vied for imperial dominance in Northeast Asia. In the process, they contested and at t……続きを見る

From the late nineteenth century, competing visions of Australia's relations with Asia have jostled for attention on the national stage and in private lives. Australia's Asia provides an original, c……続きを見る

The historian and author of The Army in British India analyzes the British Indian Army’s devastating loss to the Imperial Japanese during WWII. The defeat of 90,000 Commonwealth soldiers by 50,000 J……続きを見る

A main selection of the Military Book Club and a selection of the History Book Club With his parting words, “I shall return,” General Douglas MacArthur sealed the fate of the last American forces on……続きを見る

The author of Tanks in Hell tracks ten years of tank warfare in Vietnam, combining firsthand accounts from veterans with analysis of tactics and strategy. In 1965 the large, loud, and highly visible……続きを見る

A Green Beret’s gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. In 1970, on his second tour to Vietnam, Nick Brokhausen served in Recon Team Habu, CCN. Officiall……続きを見る

“Takes us to the exotic and pillaged places of the earth . . . and into the hearts of two passionate, revolutionary women who dared to love and lose.” ーCarole DeSanti, author of The Unruly Passions……続きを見る

“Some of this book is heartrending; some of it is as gripping as a thriller; and all of it will add to our understanding of the war” (Booklist). The Vietnam War’s influence on politics, foreign poli……続きを見る

This harrowing WWII memoir recounts the tragic ordeal of a British couple separated by war and taken prisoner by Japanese forces in Sumatra. Captain C.O. “Mick” Jennings and his wife Margery were li……続きを見る

Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions h……続きを見る

An intelligence officer stationed in Southeast Asia offers a “detailed, insightful, documented, and authentic account” of US policy failure in the region (Lewis Sorley, author of Westmoreland). In t……続きを見る

“[A****n] exceptionally raw look at the Vietnam War . . . an excellent tribute to the generation that fought, laughed, and died in Southeast Asia.” ーNew York Journal of Books This is the second vol……続きを見る