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Man Behind the Bridge: Colonel Toosey and the River Kwai

March 22, 2015

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Toosey was the senior British officer concerned with the building of the notorious “Bridge over the River Kwai”. This responsible and dangerous position forced him to make many critical decisions, but his dilemma was not that presented by Pierre Boulle in his fictional work. Toosey understood form the very beginning that he […]
Aborigines of Taiwan: The Puyuma: From Headhunting to the Modern World

March 22, 2015

Based on extensive field research over a period of twenty years, this is the first comprehensive study of the Puyuma people of Taiwan. The Puyuma belong to the Austronesian peoples, which today number less than 370,000. In Taiwan, they are the least known of the aboriginal groups, numbering only 6000, and inhabiting the Southeastern province […]
Six Silent Men, Book Two (101st Lrp/Rangers 2)

March 22, 2015

In the summer of 1967, the good old days were ending for the hard-core 1st Brigade LRRPs of the 101st Airborne Division, perhaps the finest maneuver element of its size in the history of the United States Army. It was a bitter pill. After working on their own in Vietnam for more than two years, […]
Ho Chi Minh: A Life

March 22, 2015

The magisterial and authoritative biography of one of the towering and mysterious figures of the twentieth century.Ho Chi Minh’s epic life helped shape the twentieth century. But never before has he been the subject of a major biography. Now William Duiker has compiled an astonishing work of history that fills this immense void.A New York […]
Secularizing Islamists?: Jama’at-e-Islami and Jama’at-ud-Da’wa in Urban Pakistan (South Asia Across the Disciplines)

March 22, 2015

Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama‘at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama‘at-ud-Da‘wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily […]
Singapore and the Silk Road of the Sea, 1300-1800

March 22, 2015

Beneath the modern skyscrapers of Singapore lie the remains of a much older trading port, prosperous and cosmopolitan and a key node in the maritime Silk Road. This book synthesizes 25 years of archaeological research to reconstruct the 14th-century port of Singapore in greater detail than is possible for any other early Southeast Asian city. […]
Soldiers of God: With Islamic Warriors in Afghanistan and Pakistan (Vintage Departures)

March 22, 2015

First time in paperback, with a new Introduction and final chapter World affairs expert and intrepid travel journalist Robert D. Kaplan braved the dangers of war-ravaged Afghanistan in the 1980s, living among the mujahidin—the “soldiers of god”—whose unwavering devotion to Islam fueled their mission to oust the formidable Soviet invaders. In Soldiers of God we […]
The Boys in Black: Thahan Phran (Rangers), Thailand’s Para-Military Border Guards

March 22, 2015

This is a study of the Rangers, a volunteer organization founded by the Royal Thai Army in 1978 to combat communist insurgency. They have since become responsible for first-line defense of Thailand’s border: fighting intruding armed forces, such as the ethnic insurgent armies and the drug trafficking groups in the Thai-Burma borderlands; guarding refugee camps; […]
Doomed at the Start: American Pursuit Pilots in the Philippines, 1941-1942 (Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series)

March 22, 2015

During the first three days of the Japanese assault on American Pacific bases in December of 1941, the 24th Pursuit Group, the only unit of interceptor aircraft in the Philippine Islands, was almost destroyed as an effective force. Yet the group’s pilots, doomed from the start by their limited training, an inadequate air warning system, […]
The Khyber Pass: A History of Empire & Invasion

March 22, 2015

Khyber Pass, invasion, 20th century history Sale Price:$3.50 1402756968

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