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Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II Best Price: $8.84 A superb book which is not just a personal account of the 2nd World War in Burma, but also an...	The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma Best Price: $7.50 This is a well written book and a very informative one for the Western society to have a broader...	Letters from Burma Best Price: $6.97 Aung San Suu Kyi's letters are a window into Burmese culture, politics and problems the people...	The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II (P.S.) Best Price: $4.99 Burma Road is really not a book about the Burma Road. It is a general and light overview of the...	Defeat Into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942-1945 Best Price: $12.94 A comprehensive story of a less well known battlefield of World War II. Some confusion over the...



The Jungle War: Mavericks, Marauders and Madmen in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II Best Price: $6.70 this book is a precursor of the present political landscapes of burma and india. most...	Freedom from Fear and Other Writings: Revised Edition Best Price: $2.74 The best writing I've ever read ... about striving democracy in peace... I love That Woman!!!!	Bloody Shambles : Volume One : The Drift to War to the Fall of Singapore Best Price: $37.88 When you read this book a good historian or soldier comes away with the two lessons: there is...	Living Silence: Burma under Military Rule (Politics in Contemporary Asia) Best Price: $25.99 I highly recommend this book. It covers the psychological aspect of living under the current...	Myanmar: The State, Community and the Environment Best Price: $34.00



Twilight Over Burma: My Life as a Shan Princess (Kolowalu Books) Best Price: $8.35 Inge's story gives the insight of the aftermath of the military coup. It is difficult to find...	Fire in the Night: Wingate of Burma, Ethiopia, and Zion My mother thought Orde reminded her of Stonewall Jackson of American Civil war fame. There are...	From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey Best Price: $4.79 This book converted me from a skeptic of opposition politics in Burma to an ardent believer in...	India Remembered: A Personal Account of the Mountbattens During the Transfer of Power Best Price: $21.70 This is a very interesting time frame for India. It shows how well the British kept order in a...	BLOODY SHAMBLES VOLUME TWO: The Complete Account of the Air War in the Far East, from the Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Burma, 1942 Best Price: $38.90 An outstanding book! This series has been a wonderful source of information concerning the more...

The Stilwell Papers (Dacapo Paperback) Best Price: $13.37 A man of no pretense and extreme bravery who played a key role in the China- Burma- India...	Last Man Out: Surviving the Burma-Thailand Death Railway: A Memoir Best Price: $10.38 This was a very uplifting writing about surviving the deplorable and dire circumstances during...	Edwina Mountbatten: A Life of Her Own	Meiktila 1945: The Battle To Liberate Burma (Campaign) Best Price: $3.00 Edward M. Young, an aviation history, provides an excellent summary of the little-known Meiktila...	Burma: The Longest War 1941-1945 Louis Allen, who was there, has captured the completeness of the longest war, the three year...

The Banzai Hunters: The Forgotten Armada of Little Ships That Defeated the Japanese, 1944-45 (World War II Stories) Best Price: $8.97 General W. J. "Bill" Slim's bloody and fraught victory over the Japanese on the...	Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma's Frontiers Best Price: $12.98 Down The Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma's Frontiers is the memoir of American author,...	In Farthest Burma: The record of an Arduous Journey of Exploration Best Price: $17.86 Records the 1914 expedition of Kingdon-Ward, the famed plant-collector and explorer, along the...	The Treasures and Pleasures of Thailand and Myanmar: Best of the Best in Travel and Shopping (Impact Guides) Best Price: $12.82 My partner and I just went to Thailand( Bangkok and Chiang Mai) for some hardcore antique...	War in the Blood: Sex, Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia Best Price: $14.43 "War in the Blood" is my favorite Asia book of recent years. It is still the...

Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity (Politics in Contemporary Asia) Best Price: $109.94 This would be one of the few truly objective accounts of politics and ethnic insurgence in...	The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade Best Price: $4.25 Having picked this book up for a discount of just $4, I wasn't expecting much, but the authors...	Almost Englishmen: Baghdadi Jews in British Burma Best Price: $15.93 I am a Baghdadi Jew who lived in Rangoon, Burma as a young child and boy in the 1950's. I found...	AIR WAR FOR BURMA: The Concluding Volume of The Bloody Shambles Series. The Allied Air Forces Fight Back in South-East Asia 1942-1945 (Bloody Shambles) Best Price: $37.38 What can be said about a account of a forgotten area of WW II. This book covers the Allied Air...	A History of Modern Burma Best Price: $16.49 Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections...

Burma: The State of Myanmar Best Price: $22.00 David I. Steinberg has worked with Burma for the last five decades. He has accumulated an amount...	Kinship and Marriage in Burma: A Cultural and Psychodynamic Analysis	The Legend of the Golden Boat: Regulation, Trade and Traders in the Borderlands of Laos, Thailand, China, and Burma (Anthropology of Asia Series) Best Price: $19.48 After an historical overview of the upper-Mekong region this book provides four case studies...	Merrill's Marauders (Ballantine's illustrated history of the violent century. Weapons book, no. 31) Best Price: $19.50	Fear and Sanctuary: Burmese Refugees in Thailand (Studies on Southeast Asia, 32) Best Price: $30.00 A moving examination of the plight of the refugees of Burma's protracted civil war, many of whom...

The Burma Bridge Busters Best Price: $15.99 The men of the 490th Bombardment Squadron, the 'Skull & Wings', were thrust by chance into...	Burma: Something Went Wrong (Art Catalogue) Best Price: $50.00 The artist/photographer's breakthrough collection of color portrait photographs. Destined to be...	Burma Victory: Imphal, Kohima and the Chindit Issue, March 1944 to May 1945 Best Price: $50.00	Suffering in Silence: The Human Rights Nightmare of the Karen People of Burma Best Price: $25.95	The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942-1945 (Pan Grand Strategy Series) Best Price: $23.92 Although this is not one of the more famous books on the war in Burma, it is one of the best and...

The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten	March or Die (Airlife Classics) Best Price: $5.95 This is the story of a deadly struggle between fanatical Japanese Imperial troops and the...	Early Landscapes of Myanmar Best Price: $6.97 The Archaeology of Mainland Southeast Asia: From 10,000 B.C. to the Fall of Angkor (Cambridge...	A Connecticut Yankee in the 8th Gurkha Rifles: A Burma Memoir Best Price: $5.00 I very much enjoyed reading this very well written, interesting, and compelling war memoir! I...	The Making of Modern Burma Best Price: $28.50 Very interesting concise history of Konboung Dynesty'd last days. The author did explore the in...

American Guerrilla: My War Behind Japanese Lines (Memories of War) Best Price: $3.95 Mr. Hilsman's story begins with his life prior to enlisting and moves a little slowly to finally...	Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma This is not your so called war stories. It is about a man and the men he served with without...	Quartered Safe Out Here: A Recollection of the War in Burma A great memoir, a different view of WWII, to all those who think Steven Speiberg told the story...	Myanmar: State, Society and Ethnicity Best Price: $30.00 This volume focuses on some of the most important and topical questions about Myanmar. Many of...	Ray Parkin's Wartime Trilogy: Out of the Smoke; Into the Smother; The Sword and the Blossom Best Price: $57.00 I read these books many years ago and found them moving, perhaps 'The Sword and the Blossom' the...

The Chindit War: Stilwell, Wingate, and the Campaign in Burma, 1944	Among Insurgents: Walking Through Burma Best Price: $8.50 Shelby Tucker nursed a long-time ambition to walk across Burma. Unlike most people with...	Powerful Learning: Buddhist Literati And the Throne in Burma's Last Dynasty, 1752-1885 Best Price: $49.95	The Political Ecology of Forestry in Burma 1824-1994 Best Price: $17.20	A Year With the Bah?'?s of India and Burma (Historical Reprint Series)

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