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  • The Jakarta Method

    Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

    NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2020 BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQThe hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the most important turning points of the twentieth century, eliminating the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • History of the Philippines

    From Indios Bravos to Filipinos

    The story of this nation of over seven thousand islands, f****rom ancient Malay settlements to Spanish colonization, the American occupation, and beyond.A History of the Philippines recasts various Philippine narratives with an eye for the layers of colonial and post-colonial history that have created this diverse and fascinating population. It begins with the pre-Westernized Philippines in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rampage: MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila

    “Illuminating.… An eloquent testament to a doomed city and its people.” —The Wall Street JournalIn early 1945, General Douglas MacArthur prepared to reclaim Manila, America’s Pearl of the Orient, which had been seized by the Japanese in 1942. Convinced the Japanese would abandon the city, he planned a victory parade down Dewey Boulevard—but the enemy had other plans. The Japanese were determined ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Last Stand at Khe Sanh

    The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

    by Gregg Jones ...
    In a remote mountain stronghold in 1968, six thousand US Marines awoke one January morning to find themselves surrounded by 20,000 enemy troops. Their only road to the coast was cut, and bad weather and enemy fire threatened their fragile air lifeline. The siege of Khe Sanh-the Vietnam War's epic confrontation-was under way.For seventy-seven days, the Marines and a contingent of US Army Special ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Bound by War

    How the United States and the Philippines Built America's First Pacific Century

    A sweeping history of America's long and fateful military relationship with the Philippines amid a century of Pacific warfareEver since US troops occupied the Philippines in 1898, generations of Filipinos have served in and alongside the US armed forces. In Bound by War, historian Christopher Capozzola reveals this forgotten history, showing how war and military service forged an enduring, yet ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds

    by Eric Hammel ...
    KHE SANH: Siege in the Clouds, An Oral History by Eric Hammel From critcally acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel comes a vivid oral history account of the Tet 1968 siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The words of American fighting men caught up in the grueling, deadly seventy-seven-day ordeal create a harrowing tapestry of tragedy and triumph. = As two North Vietnamese Army divisions move to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Nothing Ever Dies

    Vietnam and the Memory of War

    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

    $15.99 USD

  • Resolve

    From the Jungles of WW II Bataan,The Epic Story of a Soldier, a Flag, and a Prom ise Kept

    by Bob Welch ...
    **On April 9, 1942, thousands of U.S. soldiers surrendered as the Philippines island of Luzon fell to the Japanese. But a few hundred Americans placed their faith in their own hands and headed for the jungles.One of them was twenty-three-year-old Clay Conner Jr., who had never even camped before . . .**The obstacles to Conner’s survival were as numerous as the enemy soldiers who ultimately put a ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Swimming to Cambodia

    “It took courage to do what Spalding did—courage to make theatre so naked and unadorned, to expose himself in this way and fight the demons in public. In doing so, he entered our hearts—my heart—because he made his struggle my struggle. His life became my life.”—Eric Bogosian“Virtuosic. A master writer, reporter, comic and playwright. Spalding Gray is a sit-down monologist with the soul of a stand ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Miracles and Material Life

    Rice, Ore, Traps and Guns in Islamic Malaya

    by Teren Sevea ...
    Series series Asian Connections
    In this ground-breaking new study, Teren Sevea reveals the economic, environmental and religious significance of Islamic miracle workers (pawangs) in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Malay world. Through close textual analysis of hitherto overlooked manuscripts and personal interaction with modern pawangs readers are introduced to a universe of miracle workers that existed both in the past ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • In the Cool Shade of Compassion

    The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle

    A fascinating collection of stories of the Thai forest monks that illuminates the Thai Forest tradition as a vibrant, compassionate, and highly appealing way of life.This work ingeniously intermingles real-life stories about nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Buddhist monks in old Siam (today’s Thailand) with experiences recorded by their Western contemporaries. Stories of giant snakes, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Island of Java

    This is the first and most important book about the Island of Java and is essential reading for anyone interested in Javanese history and culture.Originally published in 1811, Island of Java was the first popular work in English to describe what for many centuries was the most important island in the vast Indonesian archipelago. Like most works published during this time, Island of Java recounts ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Some People Need Killing

    A Memoir of Murder in My Country

    TIME’S #1 NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP 10 BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A “riveting” (The Atlantic) account of the Philippines’ state-sanctioned killings of its citizens under President Rodrigo Duterte, hailed as “a journalistic masterpiece” (The New Yorker)“Tragic, elegant, vital . . . Evangelista risked her life to tell this story.”—Tara Westover, #1 New York Times ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Serpentine

    Charles Sobhraj's Reign of Terror from Europe to South Asia

    New York Times Bestseller: This in-depth account of Charles Sobhraj, the serial killer portrayed in Netflix miniseries The Serpent, is “compulsive reading” (The Plain Dealer).There was no pattern to the murders, no common thread other than the fact that the victims were all vacationers, robbed of their possessions and slain in seemingly random crimes. Authorities across three continents and a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First They Killed My Father

    A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    by Loung Ung ...
    “A riveting memoir. . . an important, moving work that those who have suffered cannot afford to forget and those who have been spared cannot afford to ignore.” — San Francisco ChronicleFrom a childhood survivor of the Cambodian genocide under the regime of Pol Pot, this is a riveting narrative of war crimes and desperate actions, the unnerving strength of a small girl and her family, and their ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Dereliction of Duty

    Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff

    "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

    $14.99 USD

  • Vietnam

    An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

    by Max Hastings ...
    An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Embers of War

    The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America's Vietnam

    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE MOST ACCLAIMED WORKS OF HISTORY IN RECENT YEARSWinner of the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians • Winner of the American Library in Paris Book Award • Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award • Finalist for the Cundill Prize in Historical LiteratureNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYTh... ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

    by Evan Osnos ...
    Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction finalistWinner of the 2014 National Book Award in nonfiction.As the Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, Evan Osnos was on the ground in China for years, witness to profound political, economic, and cultural upheaval.Age of Ambition provides a vibrant, colorful, and revelatory inner history of China during a moment of profound transformation.From abroad, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Imperial Gateway

    Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895–1945

    by Seiji Shirane ...
    In Imperial Gateway**, Seiji Shirane explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of World War II.** Challenging understandings of empire that focus on bilateral relations between metropole and colonial periphery, Shirane uncovers a half century of dynamic relations between Japan, Taiwan, China, and ... Read more

    Free

  • Empire's Violent End

    Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962

    In Empire's Violent End**, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis, along with expert contributors, present comparative research focused specifically on excessive violence in Indonesia, Algeria, Vietnam, Malaysia, Kenya, and other areas during the wars of decolonization**. In the last two decades, there have been heated public and scholarly debates in France, the United Kingdom, and the ... Read more

    Free

  • When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

    by Chanrithy Him ...
    Chanrithy Him felt compelled to tell of surviving life under the Khmer Rouge in a way "worthy of the suffering which I endured as a child."In the Cambodian proverb, "when broken glass floats" is the time when evil triumphs over good. That time began in 1975, when the Khmer Rouge took power in Cambodia and the Him family began their trek through the hell of the "killing fields." In a mesmerizing ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Storm Clouds over the Pacific, 1931–1941

    by Peter Harmsen ...
    Series series War in the Far East
    “An excellent primer about World War II in Asia prior to the involvement of the United States”—part one of a fascinating history trilogy (New York Journal of Books).War in the Far East is a trilogy of books offering the most complete narrative yet written about the Pacific Theater of World War II, and the first truly international treatment of the epic conflict. Historian Peter Harmsen weaves ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shadow Commander

    The Epic Story of Donald D. Blackburn—Guerrilla Leader and Special Forces Hero

    by Mike Guardia ...
    The true story of the US Army legend who organized “Blackburn’s Headhunters” against Japan in WWII and went on to initiate Special Forces operations in Vietnam.The fires on Bataan burned on the evening of April 9, 1942—illuminating the white flags of surrender against the dark sky. Outnumbered and outgunned, remnants of the American-Philippine army surrendered to the forces of the Rising Sun. Yet ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus