Southeast Asia | Asian History Books

Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide (California Series in Public Anthropology)

March 22, 2015

Of all the horrors human beings perpetrate, genocide stands near the top of the list. Its toll is staggering: well over 100 million dead worldwide. Why Did They Kill? is one of the first anthropological attempts to analyze the origins of genocide. In it, Alexander Hinton focuses on the devastation that took place in Cambodia […]
The Emergence Of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History

March 22, 2015

The modern states of Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, the Philippines, Myanmar, Malaysia, Singapore, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, and East Timor were once a tapestry of kingdoms, colonies, and smaller polities linked by sporadic trade and occasional war. By the end of the nineteenth century, however, the United States and several European powers had come to control almost […]
The Last Valley: Dien Bien Phu and the French Defeat in Vietnam

March 22, 2015

In December 1953 French paratroopers, who had been searching for the elusive Vietnamese army, were quickly isolated by them and forced to retreat into their out-gunned and desolate jungle base-a small place called Dien Bien Phu. The Vietnamese besieged the French base for five long and desperate months. Eventually, the demoralized and weakened French were […]
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 […]
Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam

March 22, 2015

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE Written with the style of a great novelist and the intrigue of a Cold War thriller, Embers of War is a landmark work that will forever change your understanding of how and why America went to war in Vietnam. Tapping newly accessible diplomatic archives in several nations, Fredrik Logevall […]
Shrapnel in the Heart: Letters and Remembrances from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

March 22, 2015

For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America’s least popular war. Sale Price:$3.00 0394759885
Shooting at the Moon: The Story of America’s Clandestine War in Laos

March 22, 2015

THE CIA IN ITS GLORY DAYS and the mad confidence that led to disaster in Vietnam are the subjects of Roger Warner’s prizewinning history, Shooting at the Moon: The CIA’s War in Laos (first published as Back Fire, Simon & Schuster, 1995). For a few years in the early 1960s the CIA seemed to be […]
Over the Beach: The Air War in Vietnam

March 22, 2015

“The Right Stuff without the hype, Yeager without the ego.”—Washington Post Book World “While the jet-jockey competitiveness, the undercurrent of fear, the victories and foul-ups of jet sweeps have been described many times, few such chronicles have done it so grippingly and with such a ring of accuracy. Mr. Grant explores the emotions felt not […]
Never Without Heroes: Marine Third Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam, 1965-70

March 22, 2015

FOUR CONGRESSIONAL MEDALS OF HONOR,THIRTEEN NAVAL CROSSES,SEVENTY-TWO SILVER STARS . . .In four and a half years in Vietnam, the Marines of the Third Reconnaissance Battalion repeatedly penetrated North Vietnamese and Vietcong sanctuaries by foot and by helicopter to find enemy forces, learn the enemy’s intentions, and, when possible, bring deadly fire down on his […]

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