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  • The Birth of Vietnamese Political Journalism

    Saigon, 1916-1930

    by Philippe Peycam ...
    Philippe M. F. Peycam completes the first ever English-language study of Vietnam's emerging political press and its resistance to colonialism. Published in the decade that preceded the Communist Party's founding, this journalistic phenomenon established a space for public, political contestation that fundamentally changed Vietnamese attitudes and the outlook of Southeast Asia.Peycam directly links ... Read more

    $135.19 CAD

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  • Dereliction of Duty

    Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    by H. R. McMaster ...
    "The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." —H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion)Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on transcripts ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Last Stand at Khe Sanh

    The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

    by Gregg Jones ...
    "Well-written and superbly researched. . . . Much of this engrossing book is devoted to individual Marines and their actions amid horrific combat." — The Dallas Morning NewsIn a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by twenty,zero enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

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  • In Pharaoh's Army

    Memories of the Lost War

    by Tobias Wolff ...
    Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic. ... Read more

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  • Nothing Ever Dies

    Vietnam and the Memory of War

    by Harvard ...
    Finalist, National Book Critics Circle AwardFinalist, National Book Award in NonfictionA New York Times Book Review “The Year in Reading” SelectionAll wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory. From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Sympathizer comes a searching exploration of the conflict Americans call the Vietnam War and Vietnamese call ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Reformasi

    The Struggle for power in post-Soeharto Indonesia

    by Kevin O'Rourke ...
    In July 1996, President Soeharto crossed a point of no return. Small but vocal student groups were staging daily demonstrations to demand 'reformasi' - Indonesia's byword for democratic reform. Disturbed by the unprecedented show of dissent, Soeharto cracked down. But by demonstrating that he would cling to power through force, the 74-year-old president dashed hopes for a peaceful democratic ... Read more

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  • Shooting an Elephant

    by George Orwell ...
    "Shooting an Elephant" is an essay by English writer George Orwell, first published in the literary magazine New Writing in late 1936 and broadcast by the BBC Home Service on 12 October 1948.The essay describes the experience of the English narrator, possibly Orwell himself, called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant while working as a police officer in Burma. Because the locals expect him to do ... Read more

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  • Mourning Headband for Hue

    An Account of the Battle for Hue, Vietnam 1968

    by Nha Ca ...
    Translated by Olga Dror ...
    "An intimate―and disturbing―account of war at its most brutal, told from the point of view of civilians trying to survive the maelstrom." — Publishers WeeklyVietnam, January, 1968. As the citizens of Hue are preparing to celebrate Tet, the start of the Lunar New Year, Nha Ca arrives in the city to attend her father's funeral. Without warning, war erupts all around them, drastically changing or ... Read more

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  • Burma

    by D. G. E. Hall ...
    The early history of Burma is obscure. The Burmese chronicles begin with the supposed foundation of Tagaung in 850 B.C., but the stories they tell are copies of Indian legends taken from Sanskrit or Pali originals. The earliest extant description of Further India is in the Geography of the Alexandrian scholar, Ptolemy, who flourished in the middle of the second century A.D. He refers to the ... Read more

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  • War Crimes in Japan-Occupied Indonesia

    A Case of Murder by Medicine

    by J. Kevin Baird, Sangkot Marzuki ...
    Shortly after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Imperial Army invaded the Dutch East Indies, now known as Indonesia. A deceitful campaign promoting Asian brotherhood recruited and coerced young Indonesian men to support the Japanese occupation with the sinister outcome that several million of them were worked to death or summarily killed as expendable slave laborers, or romusha, as they were called.While ... Read more

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  • A History of Modern Burma

    by Michael W. Charney ...
    Burma has lived under military rule for nearly half a century. The results of its 1990 elections were never recognized by the ruling junta and Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's pro-democracy movement, was denied her victory. She has been under house-arrest ever since. Now an economic satellite and political dependent of the People's Republic of China, Burma is at a crossroads. Will it become ... Read more

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  • Phuket: Pearl of the Orient

    by William Warren ...
    Renowned for its natural wealth since ancient times, the southern Thai island of Phuket has acquired a new kind of international celebrity in more recent days as a place of rest and relaxation for over a million foreign visitors a year. Situated off the western coast of the Malay Peninsula, Phuket has seductive landscapes, unique cultural experiences and a variety of natural color. Sun-drenched, ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD