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 Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10Best Price: $11.99 This book left me speechless. Once again, I am reminded of the sacrifice of a few for the... |  The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City TransformedBest Price: $14.96 Reading my way through translated Chinese literature, I've found that there's so much assumed... |  Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern WorldBest Price: $8.81 This is a superb history of Genghis Kahn and the Mongol Hords, without the European and Islamic... |  Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous CrewBest Price: $12.95 This an unbelievably well-written book that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and I couldn't... |  Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of Energy IndependenceBest Price: $14.63 Bryce positions the book as a comprehensive treatise on energy independence, and it's not. ... |
 OrientalismBest Price: $8.99 Dr. Said missed the track completely with this supposed historical analysis that is neither... |  Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and VietnamBest Price: $10.87 In his book The Two Vietnams, the late Bernard Fall warned that any comparisons between British... |  Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our TimesBest Price: $5.99 This book was really interesting at first, but I couldn't keep reading beyond a few hundred... |  Shadow of the Silk RoadBest Price: $5.75 Colin Thubron's vivid and very well written descriptions make us think about the complexity of... |  All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East TerrorBest Price: $8.34 This is a good history book everyone needs to read. Especially anyone running for political office. |
 Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central AsiaBest Price: $2.00 This fellow is an arm chair quack. He grew up in Pakistan, but that's all about it. Now he makes... |  The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State (Council on Foreign Relations)Best Price: $13.87 Noah Feldman's deeply interesting and profoundly misleading book supplies an answer to a... |  The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War IIBest Price: $7.55 Reading this book reminded me about the unsightly tragedies that happened in Korea during the... |  First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.)Best Price: $6.30 I read all but a couple chapters of this book on a flight across the US. It is easy reading and... |  The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai LamaBest Price: $12.00 Pico Iyer's new book subtitled "The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama" takes... |
 Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle EastBest Price: $14.00 Although Meyer and Brysac don't tell why Americans learn so disastrously little from history,... |  The Cambridge Illustrated History of China (Cambridge Illustrated Histories)Best Price: $10.75 Easy to read, this book accomplished what I was looking for: a complete high-level view of... |  Red Scarf Girl (rpkg): A Memoir of the Cultural RevolutionBest Price: $3.32 A compelling memoir from a girl growing up during the Chinese cultural revolution. Filled with... |  Because They Hate: A Survivor of Islamic Terror Warns AmericaBest Price: $5.96 A MUST read for anyone concerned about our future. An eyeopening firsthand account of a group... |  Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan: Afganistan 2001-2007 (Elite)Best Price: $11.99 Special Forces Ops, Afghanistan |
 A History of the Modern Middle EastBest Price: $27.72 Cleveland's history of the Middle East is a superb summary of events that span the time between... |  A Century Of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World OrderBest Price: $17.45 It is imperative that the US and British people no longer be in the dark. A very few powerful... |  Shah of ShahsBest Price: $7.24 I read this book twice both in Persian & English and found lots of historical errors in the... |  The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and IdeasBest Price: $8.22 I have been researching Gandhi for a number of years, so I can claim some expertise in... |  Hagakure: The Book of the SamuraiBest Price: $11.25 Saw the movie after I had read the book. This is one of those books I read again and again. ... |
 Bushido: The Way of the Samurai (Square One Classics)Best Price: $5.33 This book is good, since its a Japanese author, however, what does he know about Bushido?... |  The Silk Road: Two Thousand Years in the Heart of AsiaBest Price: $11.95 The Silk Road, by Frances Wood is a wonderfully detailed account of the history of what is... |  China, Portrait of a CountryBest Price: $37.79 The People's Republic seen by Chinese photographers. This book brings together a vast selection... |  Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on TerrorBest Price: $6.24 Written by an ex-CIA back office dude who could not beleive the non-sense he witnessed first... |  Gandhi: The Man, His People, and the Empire (Philip E. Lilienthal Book in Asian Studies)Best Price: $16.99 This is a superb book that includes a lot of information not previously known. Was so... |
 The Hebrew Republic: How Secular Democracy and Global Enterprise Will Bring Israel Peace At LastBest Price: $11.00 Bernard Avishai has written an important book about present realities in Israel, not by... |  The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and MindsBest Price: $13.95 It's a very interesting book that the author uses a unique argument to discuss current Asian... |  Afghanistan: A Military History From Alexander The Great To The Fall Of The TalibanBest Price: $8.64 I highly recommend this book to the general reader--it's written in very readable and enjoyable... |  Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to VietnamBest Price: $6.99 This book is a clear indictment of LBJ and his closest advisers on the policy on and war in... |  The Search for Modern ChinaBest Price: $35.00 This is essential reading for both Chinese studies majors and anyone who wants a comprehensive,... |
 A History of Iran: Empire of the MindBest Price: $15.60 This isn't like most books on Iran in that it covers its entire history - starting from ancient... |  Afghanistan: A Short History of Its People and PoliticsBest Price: $8.44 I liked this book, had no problem reading it, and recommend it. Presumably when reviewers refer... |  The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592-98 (Campaign)Best Price: $12.49 Stephen Turnbull's The Samurai Invasion of Korea 1592-98 is part of the Osprey Campaign series.... |  China: A New History, Second Enlarged EditionBest Price: $12.00 I bought this book because I was misled by the information displayed on Amazon's web site. This... |  Dreams Of Trespass: Tales Of A Harem GirlhoodBest Price: $4.51 Ms. Mernissi states that "The frontier is in the mind of the powerful", and that... |
 Crossed Swords: Pakistan, Its Army, and the Wars WithinBest Price: $23.00 Based on 30 years of research and analysis, this definitive book is a profound, multi-layered,... |  Chinese Civilization: A Sourcebook, 2nd EdBest Price: $15.46 An excellent way for China experts or the new and curious to look at Chinese history -... |  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... |  Freedom at MidnightBest Price: $12.08 I read this while living in India and found it to be the truest expression and understanding of... |  What Does China Think?Best Price: $11.47 To get a perspective on what some Chinese political theorists are thinking, consider this: While... |
 34 Days: Israel, Hezbollah, and the War in LebanonBest Price: $13.97 This is the first comprehensive account of the progression of the Second Lebanese War, from the... |  The Case for IsraelBest Price: $3.94 I have always been an ardent supporter of a Jewish/Israeli State and a Palestinian State and... |  When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer RougeBest Price: $8.44 After reading this I somehow felt changed. Written so well that you feel her emotions immensely... |  Dubai: The Vulnerability of SuccessBest Price: $24.99 Although written by an academic authority on the subject this book was very readable, and in... |  Life along the Silk RoadBest Price: $11.44 This book has an interesting story being told but the way it is told is extremely boring,... |
 We Were One: Shoulder to Shoulder with the Marines Who Took FallujahBest Price: $5.52 This review is strictly about the kindle version--not the book itself or its merits. The... |  We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan by the JapaneseBest Price: $5.95 I read this book several years ago, and was going through my library deciding which books to... |  The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live InBest Price: $11.26 I was searching for a good, synthetic but serious book about the muslim conquest for a long... |  Freedom in Exile: The Autobiography of The Dalai LamaBest Price: $4.77 Beginning in a world that was so alien to our present society, the current Dalai Lama commences... |  PalestineBest Price: $13.44 Palestine puts a very human face on the ongoing tragedy of the people living in their own... |
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