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 First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)Best Price: $6.98 I read all but a couple chapters of this book on a flight across the US. It is easy reading and... |  Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile CrisisBest Price: $7.55 As a Cuban refugee I was training for a job in Key West when the Cuban Missile Crisis ocurred. I... |  Catfish and Mandala: A Two-Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of VietnamBest Price: $5.75 Catfish and Mandala hit close to home. My mother's family live in Vung Tau. So, when I read... |  If I Die in a Combat Zone : Box Me Up and Ship Me HomeBest Price: $7.50 Tim O'Brien fan and have not read this book? You will not be disappointed. Never read O'Brien?... |  The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land, Updated in 2008 for the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of IsraelBest Price: $5.00 Rosenthal, Donna. "The Israelis: Ordinary People in an Extraordinary Land", New Press,... |
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 The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's RussiaBest Price: $18.69 This book is captivating! I came into it with only the most basic knowledge of Russian history.... |  China: A New History, Second Enlarged EditionBest Price: $12.99 I bought this book because I was misled by the information displayed on Amazon's web site. This... |  Meltdown: The Inside Story of the North Korean Nuclear CrisisBest Price: $13.73 In this excellent book, former CNN correspondent Mike Chinoy argues that the American failure to... |  The Man on Mao's Right: From Harvard Yard to Tiananmen Square, My Life Inside China's Foreign MinistryBest Price: $13.95 Ambassador Ji Chaozhu's personal journey in the Chinese Foreign Ministry provides vivid and rich... |  China: People Place Culture HistoryBest Price: $23.50 This book has beautiful pictures and good writing. I got one for my 5th grader, and another as... |
 Vietnam: A HistoryBest Price: $12.20 For a so-called "complete" history of Vietnam, this book was decidedly lopsided in... |  The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai LamaBest Price: $11.79 Im reading the book as I write this review and I have been surprised by the way the author... |  The Nightingale's SongBest Price: $6.78 The "Nightingales's Song" is a remarkable story. I know three of the five characters,... |  The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century (World Social Change)Best Price: $16.00 Here's a historian who finally makes the connections! Mexican silver mines, Chinese silk and... |  Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New ChinaBest Price: $8.34 Though it is going to sound like a newspaper movie ad, I cannot resist quoting the tag lines... |
 History of Asia, A (5th Edition)Best Price: $66.45 I read this textbook in a junior-level undergraduate course on the history of Asia. Rhoads... |  Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in IndiaBest Price: $13.50 Not only does this book explain the way Hindus view the iconic (formed) and aniconic (abstract)... |  Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval EmpireBest Price: $18.72 Because the Byzantine Empire lasted 1,129 years (from Constantine's founding of Constantinople... |  Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Wartime SarajevoRevised EditionBest Price: $7.29 Thank you for your quick shipment. Book is in great shape, as you stated. |  1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the WestBest Price: $5.98 The book is very well researched and practically reads like a novel, with varying descriptions... |
 The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the CaucasusBest Price: $19.62 The author describes the past three centuries of the Caucasus, making sense of the bewildering... |  Sniper on the Eastern Front: The Memoirs of Sepp Allerberger, Knight's CrossBest Price: $19.99 This book is so well written that I did not want to put it down, a comment at least one and... |  A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World OrderBest Price: $17.49 It is imperative that the US and British people no longer be in the dark. A very few powerful... |  The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations)Best Price: $13.76 Noah Feldman's deeply interesting and profoundly misleading book supplies an answer to a... |  The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and IdeasBest Price: $8.16 I have been researching Gandhi for a number of years, so I can claim some expertise in... |
 When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: Tie-In EditionBest Price: $5.99 This book is a page-turner, an amazing non-fictional look at the lives of people caught between... |  The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the TalibanBest Price: $6.59 "The Punishment of Virtue" gives the reader great insight into the political... |  The Lost Spy: An American in Stalin's Secret ServiceBest Price: $11.99 Hmmmm. I'm supposed to be intrigued by the story of a traitor who finally got murdered by the... |  Nicholas and AlexandraBest Price: $10.69 In 2000, there was much talk about the "most important person of the 20th Century." My... |  We Were Soldiers Once...and Young: Ia Drang - the Battle That Changed the War in VietnamBest Price: $10.15 This isn't a book about John Wayne's war. It's about William Tecumseh Sherman's war, the man who... |
 City of Djinns: A Year in DelhiBest Price: $8.99 The first thing that is incredibly interesting about this book is the way it is approached. To... | City of Djinns: A Year in Delhi Best Price: $8.99 The first thing that is incredibly interesting about this book is the way it is approached. To... |  Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue MissionBest Price: $3.80 This book brings an important period during WWII to life with stories that paint the horror that... |  Shah of ShahsBest Price: $8.01 I read this book twice both in Persian & English and found lots of historical errors in the... |  India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest DemocracyBest Price: $11.65 The international audience might gasp at the comprehensiveness of this tome, but any politically... |
 Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan: Afganistan 2001-2007 (Elite)Best Price: $11.18 Special Forces Ops, Afghanistan |  Son of the RevolutionBest Price: $5.24 This was an excellent book that showed the effects of the 'Cultural Revolution' from the... |  India (Eyewitness Travel Guides)Best Price: $17.01 This is a nice book for getting an overview of India and picking out things you might want to do... |  Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943Best Price: $8.00 Matter-of-fact telling of a fantastic story--the double disaster of Stalingrad in during World... |  The March of Folly: From Troy to VietnamBest Price: $8.65 Though written in 1984, this book takes apart governmental decision-making and reveals that... |
 Lest Innocent Blood Be ShedBest Price: $7.78 It is said that, during World War Two, the village of Le Chambon in southern France was the... |  China: Its History and Culture (4th Edition)Best Price: $8.98 I wanted a short history of China before my trip to Shanghai and Xian, so that I might more... |  Sources of Chinese Tradition, Vol. 1Best Price: $24.00 This work is thorough, but at the same time simple and concise. It is essentially a collection... |  Terror at Beslan: A Russian Tragedy with Lessons for America's SchoolsBest Price: $21.75 This book should be be considered "must read" materials for parents with children... |  Gulag: A HistoryBest Price: $7.99 A haunting depiction of the Gulag. The text and photos were equally interesting. I was... |
 What Everyone Needs to Know about IslamBest Price: $11.39 This was a pretty decent book and I commend the authors efforts at trying to give a less hate... |  The Sorrow of WarBest Price: $7.90 Bao Ninh's book is a difficult read, due in part to the translation, I suspect. Other reviewers... |  Red Scarf Girl (rpkg): A Memoir of the Cultural RevolutionBest Price: $3.33 A compelling memoir from a girl growing up during the Chinese cultural revolution. Filled with... |  The Genius of China: 3,000 Years of Science, Discovery, and InventionBest Price: $18.39 This book is very good to have, especially for Chinese parents with children. Children with... |  China: Fragile SuperpowerBest Price: $11.03 As many others have intricately described the particular subjects that are adroitly dealt with... |
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