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ISBN: 9780670922772 - Survivor on the River Kwai Survivor on the River Kwai
Reg Twigg

ISBN10: 0670922773  ISBN13: 9780670922772
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Viking
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 23 May 2013
Called up in 1940, Reg Twigg expected to be fighting Germans. Instead, he found himself caught up in the worst military defeat in modern British history - the fall of Singapore to the Japanese. This title tells the story of one of the last men... More

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ISBN: 9780300190236 - Confluences Confluences
Erin L Hasinoff

ISBN10: 0300190239  ISBN13: 9780300190236
Publisher: Yale University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 14 May 2013
In January 1935, the Vernay-Hopwood Chindwin Expedition departed from Rangoon to explore the Chindwin River valley on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History. This book includes documentation and photographs made during the journey as... More

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ISBN: 9780521699150 - A History of the Vietnamese A History of the Vietnamese
K W Taylor

ISBN10: 0521699150  ISBN13: 9780521699150
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
A groundbreaking, comprehensive new history of Vietnam from the earliest times to the present day. The history of Vietnam prior to the nineteenth century is rarely examined in any detail. In this groundbreaking work, K. W. Taylor takes up this... More

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ISBN: 9780415559591 - Postwar Borneo, 1945-50 Postwar Borneo, 1945-50
Ooi Keat Gin

ISBN10: 0415559596  ISBN13: 9780415559591
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Routledge
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
This book examines Borneo, both British Borneo - Brunei, Sarawak and North Borneo - and Dutch Borneo in the period 1945-1950. Borneo then was at the crossroads. Following the Japanese Occupation, the likely future status of the various Bornean... More

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ISBN: 9781907893315 - Brave New Burma Brave New Burma
Nic Dunlop

ISBN10: 1907893318  ISBN13: 9781907893315
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 09 May 2013
Brave New Burma, is an intimate portrait in words and pictures of a country finally emerging from decades of dictatorship, isolation and fear. Nic Dunlop spent 20 years photographing Burma under military rule. His new book, Brave New Burma... More

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ISBN: 9781782001874 - Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land Rolling Thunder in a Gentle Land
Andrew Wiest

ISBN10: 1782001875  ISBN13: 9781782001874
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 07 May 2013
Examines the Vietnam War. In this title, first-hand accounts, maps and contemporary photographs, analysis from the soldiers involved and fresh perspectives from combatants on both sides provide an incisive investigation into a fascinating and... More

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ISBN: 9780520274150 - Vietnam Vietnam
David G Marr

ISBN10: 0520274156  ISBN13: 9780520274150
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 May 2013
Amidst the revolutionary euphoria of August 1945, most Vietnamese believed that colonialism and war were being left behind in favor of independence and modernization. In this title, the author explains what became the largest, most intense... More

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ISBN: 9789814358859 - Raffles and the British Invasion of Java Raffles and the British Invasion of Java
Tim Hannigan

ISBN10: 9814358851  ISBN13: 9789814358859
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 May 2013
On a hot August afternoon in 1811, an army of 10,000 British redcoats splashed ashore through the muddy shallows off Batavia (the former name of Jakarta, Indonesia's capital) to conquer the Dutch colony of Java. They would remain there for five... More

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ISBN: 9781848858152 - An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia An Atlas of Trafficking in Southeast Asia
Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

ISBN10: 1848858159  ISBN13: 9781848858152
Publisher: I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd I.B.Tauris
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 30 Apr 2013
Mainland Southeast Asia is one of the world's key regions for trafficking of illegal goods. This title brings together key researchers and cartographic specialists to provide an overview of the major forms of illegal trafficking in the region. More

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ISBN: 9780195308273 - The Longest Journey The Longest Journey
Eric Tagliocozzo

ISBN10: 0195308271  ISBN13: 9780195308273
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 25 Apr 2013
A comprehensive history of the Hajj from Southeast Asia from precolonial times to the present. The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year... More