Exodus Burma

Until a few weeks before the fall of Rangoon, the British had not dreamt the Japanese would invade Burma. So in early 1942, British soldiers trained for desert warfare fought a Japanese Army trained a...

Secrets of the Samurai

Westerling's oorlog

INDONESIE 1945-1950De geschiedenis van de Nederlandse Speciale Troepen die een meedogenloze contra-guerrilla voerden tegen de Indonesische vijand is nooit volledig geschreven. Jaap de Moor neemt de le...

Afgantsy

The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen...

Islamic Thought in China

The essays in this volume tell the stories of Chinese Muslim intellectuals trying to create satisfying, safe and coherent lives at the intersection of two potentially conflicting cultures.

The Travels of Marco Polo

The newest volume in Sterling Signature's successful Illustrated Edition series takes readers on a fascinating journey into a world once unknown. Marco Polo almost single-handedly introduced fourteent...

From the Ashes of 1947

This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, drea...

Batik, Traditional Textiles of Indonesia

Batik occupies a special place in Indonesian culture. Each fabric has a rich story to tell-as a reflection of the nation's religious beliefs, sophisticated court cultures and cosmopolitan history....

The Invasion of the South: Army Air Force Operations, and the Invasion of Northern and Central Sumatra

Between 1966 and 1980, the War History Office of the National Defense College of Japan (now the Center for Military History of the National Institute for Defense Studies) published the 102-volume Sens...

Voices of Early Modern Japan

In this newly revised and updated 2nd edition of Voices of Early Modern Japan, Constantine Nomikos Vaporis offers an accessible collection of annotated historical documents of an extraordinary period...

Bali

The Island of Bali-a true paradise is explored in this classic travelogue. From the artists and writers of the 1930s to the Eat, Pray, Love tours so popular today, Bali has drawn hoards of foreign...

Het wiel van Ashoka

Publicatie in het kader van het internationaal festival 'Europalia India'. België en India hebben op het eerste gezicht weinig gemeen. Toch hebben beide landen elkaars paden regelmatig gekruist. Het Z...

Chinese Hordes and Human Waves

The North Koreans' attack on their Southern neighbours shocked and surprised the World. The conflict rapidly escalated with China soon heavily involved on one side and the United States and United Na...

Strangers on the Western Front

During World War I, Britain and France imported workers from their colonies to labor behind the front lines. The single largest group of support labor came not from imperial colonies, however, but fro...

Een geschiedenis van Zuidoost-Azië

Een geschiedenis van Zuidoost-Azië

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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