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History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis H. Francia Publisher Comments The Philippines is a country in its adolescence, struggling by fits and starts to emerge from a rich, troubled and multilayered past. From its first settlement through the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century to the subsequent American occupation... (read more) Your price: $35.00 New - Hardcover 
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The River of Lost Footsteps: A Personal History of Burma by Thant Myint U Publisher Comments The author tells the story of modern Burma, in part through a telling of his own family's history, in an interwoven narrative that is by turns lyrical, dramatic, and appalling.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dispatches by Michael Herr Publisher Comments "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Thailand (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Patit Paban Mishra Publisher Comments Thailand is a fascinating country with a very rich culture and history. Today, it is home to over 60 million people, and is a newly industrialized nation with an emerging world economy. Thailand is the world's leading exporter of rice, with roughly half... (read more) Your price: $58.95 New - Hardcover
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Art of Not Being Governed: Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia (09 Edition) by James C. Scott Publisher Comments For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery,... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances Fitzgerald Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-485) and index.... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Burma/ Myanimar (09 Edition) by Steinberg Publisher Comments In the past two decades, Burma/Myanmar has become a front-page topic in newspapers across the world. This former British colony has one of the most secretive, corrupt, and repressive regimes on the planet, yet it houses a Nobel Peace Prize winner who is... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Genocide and Resistance in Southeast Asia (07 Edition) by Ben Kiernan Publisher Comments Two modern cases of genocide and extermination began in Southeast Asia in the same year. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge regime ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, and Indonesian forces occupied East Timor from 1975 to 1999. This book examines the horrific... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $15.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Sacred War : Nationalism and Revolution in a Divided Vietnam (95 Edition) by William J. Duiker Publisher Comments This supplementary book provides a history of the Vietnam War from the perspective of North Vietnam. Professor Duiker is one of the English speaking world's foremost authorities on this period of Vietnamese history and is a former foreign service officer... (read more) List Price $39.10 Your price: $32.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Special Men: A Lrp's Recollections by Dennis Foley Publisher Comments The author of the novel Long Range Patrol offers his exciting true account of an illustrious career in the Army and his several tours of Vietnam serving with the cream of the airborne crop. Foley vividly recounts the courage and sacrifice of American... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.95 Used - Mass Market
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A bright shining lie :John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam by Neil Sheehan Publisher Comments Sheehan's tragic biography of John Paul Vann is also a sweeping history of America's seduction, entrapment and disillusionment in Vietnam. From the Trade Paperback edition.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Southeast Asia: an Introductory History (10TH 10 Edition) by Milton E. Osborne Publisher Comments Now in its 10th edition, this lively and accessible guide to Southeast Asia written by one of the world's preeminent historians of the area remains a classic in its field The first edition of this one-volume introductrion to the area was... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Thailand (2ND 09 Edition) by Chris Baker Publisher Comments In A History of Thailand, Chris Baker and Pasuk Phongpaichit reveal how a world of mandarin nobles and unfree labour evolved into a rural society of smallholder peasants and an urban society populated mainly by migrants from southern China. They trace... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $16.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bali: A Paradise Created by Adrian Vickers Publisher Comments Bali: A Paradise Created bridges the gap between scholarly works and the more popular travel accounts readily available today. It offers an accessible history of this fascinating island and an anthropological study not only of the Balinese, but of the... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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When the War Was Over: Cambodia and the Khmer Rough Revolution by Elizabeth Becker Publisher Comments Award-winning journalist Elizabeth Becker started covering Cambodia in 1973 for The Washington Post, when the country was perceived as little more than a footnote to the Vietnam War. Then, with the rise of the Khmer Rouge in 1975 came the closing of the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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My Lai: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History & Culture) by James S Olson Publisher Comments The massacre at My Lai on March 16, 1968 continues to haunt students of the Vietnam War as a moment that challenges notions of American virtue. James Olson and Randy Roberts have combed unpublished testimony and gather a collection of eyewitness accounts... (read more) List Price $19.20 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: Tie-In Edition by Le Ly Hayslip Publisher Comments It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. The youngest of six children in a close-knit... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Cambridge History of Se Asia Volume 2 Part2 by Nicholas Tarling Publisher Comments Volume 4 covers the period from World War II to the present.... (read more) Your price: $47.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Social World of Batavia: Europeans and Eurasians in Colonial Indonesia (New Perspectives in Southeast Asian Studies) by Jean Gelman Taylor Publisher Comments In the seventeenth century, the Dutch established a trading base at the Indonesian site of Jacarta. What began as a minor colonial outpost under the name Batavia would become, over the next three centuries, the flourishing economic and political nucleus... (read more) Your price: $29.25 New - Trade Paper
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Seals: Udt Seal Operations in Vietnam by T L Bosiljevac Publisher Comments "For the most detailed account we've seen of SEAL involvedment in Vietnam check out SEALs." SOLDIER OF FORTUNTE In January 1962, two Sea, Air, and Land Teams were formed. Commissioned to operate up to twenty miles inland in enemy territory, they would... (read more) List Price $6.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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