B A H AI the Spirit of the Age

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digit...

Modern China

This new history of modern China begins in the year 1800, with an account of China's approach to the threats of foreign imperialism and internal rebellion. The main themes of this late imperial period...

Pai Naa: The True Story of Englishwoman Nona Baker's Survival in the Malayan Jungle During WWII

By the time the British surrendered to the Japanese in February 1942 at the fall Singapore, nearly all white civilians had left Malaya. One remarkable exception to the white flight was Nona Baker, µa...

Ben Thang Cuoc

A Tiger Among Us

An action-filled memoir by Medal of Honor recipient Bennie Adkins, whose heroic deeds as a Green Beret in Vietnam in March 1966 became legend in the Army For four days in early March 1966, then-ser...

Blue Tiger

Harry R. Caldwell was a Methodist missionary to southern China. In Blue Tiger, first published in 1924, he wrote about several of his adventures in that country. An avid hunter and amateur naturalist,...

Prompt and Utter Destruction

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known...

The Us Army's First, Last, and Only All-Black Rangers

The 2d Ranger Infantry Company (Airborne) was the first and only all-black Ranger unit in the history of the United States Army. Its ten-month lifespan included selection, training, and seven months o...

Life of Miracles Along the Yangtze and Mississippi

There are only two ways to live our life, according to Albert Einstein: one is as if nothing is a miracle; the other, as if everything is a miracle. Life of Miracles along the Yangtze and Mississip...

Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization

The alluvial lowlands of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in southern Mesopotamia are widely known as the cradle of civilization, owing to the scale of the processes of urbanization that took place in...

'Achteraf heb ik er spijt van dat ik goed kan schieten'

Voor Theo van Roij was de oorlog in 1945 nog niet voorbij. Van 1948 tot 1950 was hij als dienstplichtig soldaat in Nederlands-Indië. Zijn dagboek geeft een onthutsend beeld van het leven daar. V an f...

Musui's Story

The author, a Japanese samurai of the nineteenth century, looks back on his life and shares his observations on Japanese society

The Silk Roads

For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west - in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching...

No Place Like Home

'Nowzad was a gentle giant when it came to taking treats. He never, ever snatched. To me it was just further evidence that, deep inside, there was a great dog struggling to find his way out' When P...

New Asian Hemisphere

For two centuries Asians have been bystanders in world history, reacting defenselessly to the surges of Western commerce, thought, and power. That era is over. Asia is returning to the center stage it...