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 Leningrad: State of SiegeBest Price: $10.69 The siege of Leningrad was first dealt with comprehensively by Harrison Salisbury's The 900 Days... |  The Gulag Archipelago: 1918-1956, An Experiment in Literary Investigation III - IVBest Price: $34.76 "...may well be Solzhenitsyn's most stunning acheivement." --Time In "The... |  Man Is Wolf to Man: Surviving the GulagBest Price: $14.05 The most important thing that I gained by reading Janusz Bardach's book is that the will to... |  Afghanistan: Hidden TreasuresBest Price: $18.26 Almost 30 years ago, a precious trove of art was spirited away from the National Museum of... |  Special Forces at War: An Illustrated History, Southeast Asia 1957-1975Best Price: $26.38 I practically own every book on the subject on the Green Berets in Vietnam, and this one is... |
 Black Dog of Fate: An American Son Uncovers His Armenian PastBest Price: $4.99 A very good, well written story of the author's discovery of his own Armenian roots and the... |  The Search for Modern China: A Documentary CollectionBest Price: $20.95 This is a really good collection of documents meant to complement Spence's "The Search for... |  One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of Sadako and the Children's Peace StatueBest Price: $2.30 On page 74 Rev. Ishii infers that Sadako was the 14th death that year (1955) in her jr. high... |  Gone Native: An NCO's StoryBest Price: $3.95 A well-written document by one of the troops on the ground. Crazy moments of a GI under stress,... |  A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its AftermathBest Price: $7.89 Troung Nhu Tang was a true freedom fighter to liberate Vietnam from colonial slavery and unite... |
 Ivan's War: Life and Death in the Red Army, 1939-1945Best Price: $3.50 A rare insight in the lives and deaths of the millions who fought with the red Army on the... |  Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in ExileBest Price: $11.98 Pearce's biography of A.I. Solzhenitsyn may leave off the man's rougher edges, but manages to... |  The Lost Daughters of ChinaBest Price: $1.93 This was an interesting book for those that might be planning to adopt from China. It talks... |  At Hell's Gate: A Soldier's Journey from War to PeaceBest Price: $6.29 This is a book everyone should read. I totally agree with the writer, that we all know and live... |  The Soviet-Afghan War: How a Superpower Fought and LostBest Price: $10.00 This book is a general encylcopedic type that cover alot of topics.A person could use this book... |
 The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan (Kodansha Globe)Best Price: $1.05 This book really enhances, enlarges and clarifies one's understanding of Lady Muraski's world... |  Ottoman CenturiesBest Price: $7.99 Unless you're an absolute Ottomaniac, this one-volume history of the great Turkish Empire should... |  Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945Best Price: $5.00 It feels cruel to be overly critical about this book because I can't imagine the author wrote... |  The Aquariums of Pyongyang: Ten Years in the North Korean GulagBest Price: $6.77 Not since Night (Oprah's Book Club) by Elie Wiesel have I read such a grippng story of a child's... |  The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of BurmaBest Price: $8.36 This is a well written book and a very informative one for the Western society to have a broader... |
 To Be a U.S. Army Green Beret (To Be A)Best Price: $14.32 I'd give this book 3.5 but I cant... I found this book to be very well informing of all types of... |  Stalin: The First In-depth Biography Based on Explosive New Documents from Russia's Secret ArchivesBest Price: $8.99 For 50 years, few have disputed that Stalin was one of the cruelest men since Vlad the Impaler... |  The Complete Art Of War: Sun Tzu/sun Pin (History and Warfare)Best Price: $17.89 Great book, the reader is given a sense of historical referance while the reader is left to... |  The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History. (Abridged Edition) (Bollingen Series (General))Best Price: $17.43 While other reviewers rave over the enlightenment and knowledge of Islamic social scientist,... |  Spy Wars: Moles, Mysteries, and Deadly GamesBest Price: $22.40 This book is exceptionally well-written, and well-organized. Bagley's argument is very... |
 Beijing's Games: What the Olympics Mean to ChinaBest Price: $22.46 Susan Brownell has approached the topic of the Beijing Olympics with the seriousness which it... |  The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as HistoryBest Price: $8.46 Norman Mailer gave a personal view of that time which included all different intellectual... |  Lenin's Brain and Other Tales from the Secret Soviet Archives (Hoover Institution Press Publication) (Hoover Institution Press Publication)Best Price: $15.68 The secret world of the Soviet Union revealed The opening of the once-secret Soviet state... |  The Vietnam War: A Concise International HistoryBest Price: $11.61 The Vietnam War remains a topic of extraordinary interest, not least because of striking... |  Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines, 1945-2001Best Price: $26.35 In light of the previously posted shining reviews on this text, I suppose there is not much more... |
 The Lone Samurai: The Life of Miyamoto MusashiBest Price: $14.00 Anyone who is familiar with Musashi's reputation as a master swordsman and the many stories... |  Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45Best Price: $4.95 How far will the united States go to support a ruler on the words of others? Stilwell was, first... |  Nathaniel's Nutmeg: Or the True and Incredible Adventures of the Spice Trader Who Changed the Course of HistoryBest Price: $3.00 I give the author 2 stars for taking on an interesting topic and having done exhaustive research... |  Rescue of Streetcar 304: A Navy Pilot's Forty Hours on the Run in Laos (Ausa)Best Price: $13.57 As a former Vietnam black water Salvage diver for the U.S. Army (yes, they had divers), I... |  One Man Caravan ("Incredible Journeys" Books)Best Price: $16.21 Overall, the book is interesting and informative. It gives some great detail about the middle... |
 Back To JerusalemBest Price: $3.49 The First half of this book is written by Paul Hattaway briefly tracing the origin of... |  Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central AsiaBest Price: $10.75 I have a weakness for Peter Hopkirk. He could write about dishwater and I would be enthralled. ... |  Vietnam Today: A Guide To A Nation At A CrossroadsBest Price: $14.86 Vietnam is a country that is changing extremely rapidly in both economic and social spheres,... |  Silk Road: Monks, Warriors & MerchantsBest Price: $16.57 Got to me in a decent enough time and nothing was wrong with the book so i would say overall... |  Wild Grass: Three Portraits of Change in Modern ChinaBest Price: $7.86 Quite interesting for China watchers;gives another perspective of the new regime,but as all... |
 A Brief History of the Late Ottoman EmpireBest Price: $23.95 At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire straddled three continents and... |  The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial NationalismBest Price: $19.62 During the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, while key decisions were debated by the victorious... |  A Brief History of Chinese and Japanese CivilizationsBest Price: $56.28 I'm a college student majoring in East Asian Studies. This book is required for the intro... |  Twilight in The Forbidden City (Illustrated and revised 4th Edition)Best Price: $19.09 Love this book, since being young I have borrowed this book from interlibrary loans, now I have... |  Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings (Cambridge Texts in Modern Politics)Best Price: $22.46 This book is simply awesome. I call this one of the best books I've ever read. It presents... |
 Communism: A History (Modern Library Chronicles)Best Price: $7.89 As a detailed examination of communism and a virtual historical "balance sheet" of the... |  Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and PakistanBest Price: $4.99 I developed quite a dislike for Kaplan as I read this book, but the subject matter was... |  Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple GeometryBest Price: $18.50 For anyone who truly loves mathematics, this book is a must have. Simply put, the book tells... |  Silent Warrior: The Marine Sniper's Story Vietnam ContinuesBest Price: $3.94 Read the story of Carlos Hathcock, "White Feather", just another American Hero our... |  Modern East AsiaBest Price: $49.47 This compelling text explores the development of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam from their... |
 Street Without Joy: The French Debacle In Indochina (Stackpole Military History Series)Best Price: $6.38 Street Without Joy is an excellent work by Bernard Fall about the French War in Indochina (also... |  Understanding VietnamBest Price: $13.99 I grew up with a lot of second generation Vietnamese and had a relatively significant amount of... |  Afghanistan: A Companion and GuideBest Price: $18.70 I am currently deployed to Kabul and after reading and reviewing many guides and books this is... |  A Handbook of Tibetan Buddhist SymbolsBest Price: $14.99 Tibetan Buddhist symbolism is extremely complex,yet in this volume artist/Buddhist Robert Beer... |  Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty VerseBest Price: $13.00 I found the notes to the poems particularly valuable - thanks to them, the collection becomes a... |
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