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  • Waging an Unwinnable War

    The Communist Insurgency in Malaysia (1948–1989)

    by Lim Cheng Leng, Khor Eng Lee ...
    Chairman Mao Tse-tung declared: "Every Communist must grasp the truth, 'Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun'..." Mao's dictum provided the guiding principle for the protracted armed struggle of the Communist Party of Malaya/Malaysia over a 40-year period, from the start of its guerrilla war in mid-1948 to the signing of the peace agreement to conclude the futile conflict in early ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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    The History of a Nightmare

    by Philip Short ...
    Pol Pot was an idealistic, reclusive figure with great charisma and personal charm. He initiated a revolution whose radical egalitarianism exceeded any other in history. But in the process, Cambodia desended into madness and his name became a byword for oppression.In the three-and-a-half years of his rule, more than a million people, a fifth of Cambodia's population, were executed or died from ... Read more

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  • In the Ruins of Empire

    The Japanese Surrender and the Battle for Postwar Asia

    by Ronald Spector ...
    The New York Times said of Ronald H. Spector’s classic account of the American struggle against the Japanese in World War II, “No future book on the Pacific War will be written without paying due tribute to Eagle Against the Sun.” Now Spector has returned with a book that is even more revealing. In the Ruins of Empire chronicles the startling aftermath of this crucial twentieth-century conflict ... Read more

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  • Small Wars, Faraway Places

    Global Insurrection and the Making of the Modern World, 1945-1965

    by Michael Burleigh ...
    A sweeping history of the Cold War’s many “hot” wars born in the last gasps of empireThe Cold War reigns in popular imagination as a period of tension between the two post-World War II superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, without direct conflict. Drawing from new archival research, prize-winning historian Michael Burleigh gives new meaning to the seminal decades of 1945 to 1965 by ... Read more

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  • Beyond NATO

    A New Security Architecture for Eastern Europe

    by Michael E. O'Hanlon ...
    Series series The Marshall Papers
    In this new Brookings Marshall Paper, Michael O'Hanlon argues that now is the time for Western nations to negotiate a new security architecture for neutral countries in eastern Europe to stabilize the region and reduce the risks of war with Russia. He believes NATO expansion has gone far enough. The core concept of this new security architecture would be one of permanent neutrality. The countries ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Massacre in Malaya

    Exposing Britain's My Lai

    by Christopher Hale ...
    The Malayan Emergency (1948–60) was the longest war waged by British and Commonwealth forces in the twentieth century. Fought against communist guerrillas in the jungles of Malaya, this undeclared 'war without a name' had a powerful and covert influence on American strategy in Vietnam. Many military historians still consider the Emergency an exemplary, even inspiring, counterinsurgency conflict. ... Read more

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  • NATO

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Jennifer Medcalf ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    A thorough and straightforward overview of the full spectrum of NATO's military and non-military activities since the Cold War, this accessible study also provides valuable insight into the issues and problems facing NATO in the post-9/11 and post-Iraq War world. Author Jennifer Medcalf clearly and concisely discusses each of the main areas on NATO's agenda and also looks at the future of the ... Read more

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  • Red Star Over Malaya

    Resistance and Social Conflict During and After the Japanese Occupation, 1941-1946

    by Boon Kheng Cheah ...
    Red Star Over Malaya is an account of the inter-racial relations between Malays and Chinese during the final stages of the Japanese occupation. In 1947, none of the three major race of Malaya - Malays, Chinese, and Indians - regarded themselves as pan-ethnic "Malayans" with common duties and problems. With the occupation forcibly cut them off from China, Chinese residents began to look inwards ... Read more

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  • More Instructions from the Centre

    Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985

    Edited by Christopher M. Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky ...
    During the decade that preceded Mr Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB headquarters in Moscow was putting out a constant stream of instructions to its Residencies abroad. Unknown to the KGB, however, many of these highly classified documents were being secretly copied by Oleg Gordievsky, at that time not only a high-ranking KGB officer based in London but also a long-serving ... Read more

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  • The Hawks of Peace: Notes of the Russian Ambassador

    by Dmitry Rogozin ...
    The Hawks of Peace. Notes of Russian Ambassador is a unique analytical edition where Russian Deputy Premier Dmitry Rogozin shares his notes on personalities and events that shaped the history of post-Communist Russia, believing that without those it would be impossible to understand the past and envisage the future of his country. Permanent Representative of Russia to NATO until recently, in his ... Read more

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  • Empires at War

    A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II

    by Dr Francis Pike ...
    Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. "Empires at War" gives a dramatic narrative account of how this 'Modern Asia' came into being. Taking the bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 as its starting point, Francis Pike chronicles the ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Russia's Military Revival

    by Bettina Renz ...
    Russian annexation of Crimea and the subsequent air campaign over Syria took the world by surprise. The capabilities and efficiency of Moscow’s armed forces during both operations signalled to the world that Russia was back in business as a significant military actor on the international stage.In this cutting-edge study, Bettina Renz provides an in-depth and comprehensive analysis of Russia’s ... Read more

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