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  • End Times

    Elites, Counter-Elites and the Path of Political Disintegration

    by Peter Turchin ...
    THE THOUGHT BOOK OF THE YEAR, THE TIMESA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR'Game of Thrones-style intra-elite conflict meets big data' TLS'Extraordinary. . . the culmination of many years of highly original and innovative work' BloombergOne of the most iconoclastic thinkers of our time offers a brilliant new theory of how society w... ... Read more

    S$ 18.96 SGD

  • Ground Truth

    3 Para Return to Afghanistan

    by Patrick Bishop ...
    Afghanistan, 2008. After their eighteen-month epic tour of Helmand Province, the troops of 3 Para are back. This time, the weight of experience weighs heavily on their shoulders.In April 2006 the elite 3 Para Battle Group was despatched to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on a tour that has become a legend. All that summer the Paras were subjected to relentless Taliban attacks in one of the most ... Read more

    S$ 7.84 SGD

  • A Foreign Field (Text Only)

    by Ben Macintyre ...
    This edition does not include illustrations.A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War. From the Number 1 bestselling author of ‘Agent ZigZag’ and ‘Operation Mincemeat’.Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Unable to get back to their units, ... Read more

    S$ 9.80 SGD

  • Armoured Warfare in the Arab-Israeli Conflicts

    by Anthony Tucker-Jones ...
    Series series Images of War
    The latest volume in Anthony Tucker-Joness series of books on armoured warfare in the Images of War series is a graphic account of the development of armoured forces in the Arab and Israeli armies from 1948 to the present day. In a sequence of over 200 archive photographs he tells the story of the role armour played in Arab-Israeli conflicts over the last sixty years, from the initial battles of ... Read more

    S$ 3.83 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imagining Malaya

    Peranakan Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Belonging at the End of Empire, 1945–1957

    by Bernard Z. Keo ...
    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The end of Britain's empire in Southeast Asia in the wake of World War II generated new opportunities for colonial subjects across the region to reimagine themselves as ... Read more

    S$ 137.98 SGD

  • Going Dutch

    How England Plundered Holland's Glory

    by Lisa Jardine ...
    On November 5, 1688, William of Orange, Protestant ruler of the Dutch Republic, landed at Torbay in Devon with a force of twenty thousand men. Five months later, William and his wife, Mary, were jointly crowned king and queen after forcing James II to abdicate. Yet why has history recorded this bloodless coup as an internal Glorious Revolution rather than what it truly was: a full-scale invasion ... Read more

    S$ 16.88 SGD

  • The First Asians in the Americas

    A Transpacific History

    by Diego Javier Luis ...
    The definitive account of transpacific Asian movement through the Spanish empire—from Manila to Acapulco and beyond—and its implications for the history of race and colonization in the Americas.Between 1565 and 1815, the so-called Manila galleons enjoyed a near-complete monopoly on transpacific trade between Spain’s Asian and American colonies. Sailing from the Philippines to Mexico and back, ... Read more

    S$ 26.26 SGD

  • The Glorious First of June 1794

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 340 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated account of the first and largest fleet action between the navies of Great Britain and France during the French Revolutionary Wars.As 1794 opened, Revolutionary France stood on a knife's edge of failure. Its army and navy had been shaken by the revolution, with civil war and famine taking its toll on their resources. Seeking to bring a revitalizing supply of food from its ... Read more

    S$ 26.48 SGD

  • The War on Music

    Reclaiming the Twentieth Century

    by John Mauceri ...
    A prominent conductor explores how aesthetic criteria masked the political goals of countries during the three great wars of the past centuryThis book offers a major reassessment of classical music in the twentieth century. John Mauceri argues that the history of music during this span was shaped by three major wars of that century: World War I, World War II, and the Cold War.Probing why so few ... Read more

    S$ 28.11 SGD

  • Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden

    Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War

    by Zhuqing Li ...
    **Sisters separated by war forge new identities as they are forced to choose between family, nation, and their own independence."Exceptional…[A] gripping narrative of one family divided by the 'bamboo curtain.'" —Deirdre Mask, New York Times Book ReviewA BookBrowse Best Nonfiction for Book Clubs in 2024**Jun and Hong were scions of a once great southern Chinese family. Each other’s best friend, ... Read more

    S$ 18.08 SGD

  • Armed Combat

    Defending yourself against hand-held weapons

    by Martin J Dougherty ...
    Series series SAS & Elite Forces Handbook
    Overhead block, upward stab, step-through lunge, bayonet slash; knife fighting, handgun shooting, sword play. If your enemy is armed, you need to know how to deal with him. SAS and Elite Forces Guide Armed Combat teaches a huge range of armed close combat techniques, including tips on fighting stances and postures, movement and evasions, quick draws, parries, fend-offs, blocks, cuts, thrusts, ... Read more

    S$ 9.15 SGD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • D-Day 1944

    The deadly failure of Allied heavy bombing on June 6

    by Stephen Bourque ...
    Series Book 28 - Air Campaign
    An illustrated study of the little-known history of the failed Allied bombing campaign designed to shatter German defenses on D-Day.D-Day is one of the most written-about events in military history. One aspect of the invasion, however, continues to be ignored: the massive pre-assault bombardment by the Allied Expeditionary Air Force (AEAF), reinforced by RAF Bomber Command and the US Eighth Air ... Read more

    S$ 25.50 SGD

  • A Kim Jong-Il Production

    The Incredible True Story of North Korea and the Most Audacious Kidnapping in History

    by Paul Fischer ...
    A Kim Jong-Il Production by Paul Fischer - love, films and kidnapping in North Korea, the world's wildest regimeBefore becoming the world's most notorious dictator, Kim Jong-Il ran North Korea's film industry. He directed every film made in the country but knew they were nothing compared to Hollywood. Then he hit on the perfect solution: order the kidnapping of South Korea's most famous actress ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • To the End of Revolution

    The Chinese Communist Party and Tibet, 1949–1959

    by Xiaoyuan Liu ...
    The status of Tibet is one of the most controversial and complex issues in the history of modern China. In To the End of Revolution, Xiaoyuan Liu draws on unprecedented access to the archives of the Chinese Communist Party to offer a groundbreaking account of Beijing’s evolving Tibet policy during the critical first decade of the People’s Republic.Liu details Beijing’s overarching strategy toward ... Read more

    S$ 43.92 SGD

  • Auschwitz Testimonies

    1945-1986

    by Primo Levi, Leonardo De Benedetti ...
    Translated by Judith Woolf ...
    In 1945, soon after the liberation of Auschwitz, Soviet authorities in control of the Kattowitz (Katowice) camp in Poland asked Primo Levi and his fellow captive Leonardo De Benedetti to compile a detailed report on the sanitary conditions they witnessed in Auschwitz. The result was an extraordinary testimony and one of the first accounts of the extermination camps ever written. Their report, ... Read more

    S$ 18.99 SGD

  • Zhou Enlai

    The Enigma Behind Chairman Mao

    by Professor Michael Dillon ...
    Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' – these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career in the Chinese Communist Party from the 1920s to 1970s.Born in 1898, Zhou witnessed several of the most important events in China's modern history and was a close associate of both the nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek and communist leader Mao Zedong, ... Read more

    S$ 40.65 SGD

  • The 9/11 Commission Report

    Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

    by Thomas Kean ...
    This edition has been designated as the only official U.S. Government edition of the 9-11 Commission’s Final Report. It provides a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks, including preparedness for and the immediate response to the attacks. It also includes recommendations designed to guard against future attacks. ... Read more

    S$ 10.02 SGD

  • The Penguin History of the World

    6th edition

    by J M Roberts, Odd Arne Westad ...
    This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World.For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human endeavour laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain in a single authoritative book. Now, for the ... Read more

    S$ 26.80 SGD

  • Diasporic Cold Warriors

    Nationalist China, Anticommunism, and the Philippine Chinese, 1930s–1970s

    by Chien-Wen Kung ...
    Series series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
    In Diasporic Cold Warriors**, Chien-Wen Kung explains how the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang) sowed the seeds of anticommunism among the Philippine Chinese with the active participation of the Philippine state.**From the 1950s to the 1970s, Philippine Chinese were Southeast Asia's most exemplary Cold Warriors among overseas Chinese. During these decades, no Chinese community in the region ... Read more

    S$ 55.91 SGD

  • RAF Tornado Units in Combat 1992-2019

    by Michael Napier ...
    Series Book 142 - Combat Aircraft
    After the Gulf War of 1990, No Fly Zones (NFZ) were established over northern and southern Iraq and the Tornado GR 1 force stepped up to operations over the southern NFZ.The Tornado GR 4 took responsibility for RAF combat air operations in Afghanistan from the Harrier force in 2009, and in 2011 was involved in missions against the Gaddafi regime in Libya. The unique multirole capabilities of the ... Read more

    S$ 26.48 SGD

  • Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire

    Europe and the Transformation of the Tropical World

    by Corey Ross ...
    Ecology and Power in the Age of Empire provides the first wide-ranging environmental history of the heyday of European imperialism, from the late nineteenth century to the end of the colonial era. It focuses on the ecological dimensions of the explosive growth of tropical commodity production, global trade, and modern resource management-transformations that still visibly shape our world today-and ... Read more

    S$ 42.72 SGD

  • Apollo's Legacy

    Perspectives on the Moon Landings

    by Roger D. Launius ...
    An all-encompassing look at the history and enduring impact of the Apollo space programIn Apollo's Legacy, space historian Roger D. Launius explores the many-faceted stories told about the meaning of the Apollo program and how it forever altered American society. The Apollo missions marked the first time human beings left Earth's orbit and visited another world, and thus they loom large in our ... Read more

    S$ 28.11 SGD

  • The Book Collectors of Daraya

    A Band of Syrian Rebels, Their Underground Library, and the Stories that Carried Them Through a War

    by Delphine Minoui ...
    Translated by Lara Vergnaud ...
    **'**The Book Collectors of Daraya celebrates the political and therapeutic power of the written word . . . defiant and cautiously optimistic' Financial Times**'**[An] incredible chronicle . . . The book tells the kind of story that often gets buried beneath images of violence' LitHubIn 2012 the rebel suburb of Daraya in Damascus was brutally besieged by Syrian government forces. Four years of ... Read more

    S$ 15.90 SGD

  • The Dragon in the Jungle

    The Chinese Army in the Vietnam War

    by Xiaobing Li ...
    Western historians have long speculated about Chinese military intervention in the Vietnam War. It was not until recently, however, that newly available international archival materials, as well as documents from China, have indicated the true extent and level of Chinese participation in the conflict of Vietnam. For the first time in the English language, this book offers an overview of the ... Read more

    S$ 38.90 SGD