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Red Odyssey: A Journey Through the Soviet Republics

By: Akchurin, Marat

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harpercollins: 1992-05-01

Seller ID: N3-703ri

ISBN: 0060183357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

An evocative tour of the Soviet Union's outer provinces by a Soviet writer. Marat Akchurin vividly describes his journey through the Soviet republics in their last days under Soviet domination. The result is rich with history, legend, and compelling anecdotes, a personal portrait of an empire in the midst of a new revolution.
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Japan At War In Color

By: Batty, David

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Carlton Publishing Group: 2004-11-01

Seller ID: V2-208ri

ISBN: 1844426408

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Until recently it had been assumed that no color photographs existed in Japan until the victorious US forces arrived in 1945. However, following a yearlong research project, an extraordinary color record began to emerge. Now in Japan's War in Color, rare and never-before-seen photographs reveal imperial Japanese troops in Manchuria in 1931, preparations for war in 1939, occupation troops in 1940 and the Japanese war machines in action throughout the second World War including extremely rare color photographs of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture

By: Benedict, Ruth Fulton

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Mariner Books: 1989-06-01

Seller ID: Q8-10001f

ISBN: 0395500753

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

A classic of cultural anthropology that traces the development of Japanese ideology over thirteen centuries.
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An Eye for the Dragon: Southeast Asia Observed: 1954-1970

By: Bloodworth, Dennis

Price: $5.37

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1970-06-01

Seller ID: B3-479

ISBN: 0374151296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Book is like new. Dust jacket has light shelf wear. BCE.
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An Eye for the Dragon: Southeast Asia Observed: 1954-1970

By: Bloodworth, Dennis

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1970-06-01

Seller ID: N7-405ri

ISBN: 0374151296

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Tournament of Shadows: The Great Game and the Race for Empire in Central Asia

By: Brysac, Shareen Blair

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Basic Books: 1999-10-28

Seller ID: N7-406ri

ISBN: 1582430284

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

The original Great Game (1800-1917), the clandestine struggle between Russia and Britain for mastery of Central Asia, has long been regarded as one of the greatest geopolitical conflicts of the nineteenth century. The prize, control of the vast Eurasian heartland, was believed by some to be key to world dominion. Teeming with improbable drama and exaggerated tensions, the conflict featured soldiers, mystics, archeologists, and spies, among them some of history's most colorful characters.
-- Russia's greatest explorer, Nicholas Przhevalsky, who died trying to shoot his way to Lhasa
-- Nic...
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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

By: Chang, Jung

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1991-09-01

Seller ID: N4-320w

ISBN: 0671685465

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear aroun

Japanese Mind: The Goliath Explained

By: Christopher, Robert C.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1983-05-01

Seller ID: C4-322f

ISBN: 0671449478

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Inscription by author
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A Day in the Life of China

By: Cohen, David [Editor]

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Collins Pub San Francisco: 1989-09-01

Seller ID: Z2-702w

ISBN: 0002153211

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Some scratches on back cover.

The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden End of a Long War

By: David Butler

Price: $20.85

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1985-04-01

Seller ID: P1-202ri

ISBN: 0671466755

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

The Fall of Saigon: Scenes from the Sudden End of a Long War

By: David Butler

Price: $20.85

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: 1985-04-01

Seller ID: Q1-8018f

ISBN: 0671466755

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

India Through the Lens: Photography 1840 - 1911

By: Dehejia, Vidya [Editor]

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Prestel: 2001-01-01

Seller ID: H6-720w

ISBN: 379132408X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Dust jacket has light wear aroun

Outstanding works from the pioneers of Indian photography.
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Banaras: City of Light

By: Eck, Diana L.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Princeton University Press: 1983-09-21

Seller ID: W5-720f

ISBN: 069102023X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The description for this book, Banaras: City of Light, will be forthcoming.

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Offspring of Empire: The Koch'Ang Kims and the Colonial Origins of Korean Capitalism, 1876-1945 (Korean Studies of the Henry M. Jackson School of in)

By: Eckert, Carter J.

Price: $42.29

Publisher: Univ of Washington Pr: 1991-08-01

Seller ID: L5-310

ISBN: 0295970650

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Armies of the Raj: From the Great Indian Mutiny to Independence, 1858-1947

By: Farwell, Byron

Price: $10.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: 1991-10-17

Seller ID: C1-350f

ISBN: 0393308022

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Like New

The stories are glorious and told with zest and verve. Washington Times
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Bhutan

By: Francoise Pommaret-Imaeda; Yoshiro Imaeda; Guy Van Strydonck

Price: $30.33

Publisher: Shambhala: 1985-03-12

Seller ID: C8-428

ISBN: 087773321X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

New book. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover.
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Soldiers of the Sun: The Rise and Fall of the Imperial Japanese Army

By: Harries, Meirion

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Random House: 1992-04-21

Seller ID: Q6-208ri

ISBN: 0394569350

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Very Good

Soldiers of the Sun traces the origins of the Imperial Japanese Army back to its samurai roots in the nineteenth century to tell the story of the rise and fall of this extraordinary military force.
Meirion and Susie Harries have written the first full Western account of the Imperial Japanese Army. Drawing on Japanese, English, French, and American sources, the authors penetrate the lingering wartime enmity and propaganda to lay bare the true character of the Imperial Army.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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China: 100 Years of Revolution

By: Harrison E. Salisbury; J-c Suar

Price: $17.95

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston: 1983-01-01

Seller ID: H10-709ri

ISBN: 003056073X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used: Like New

Warriors of the Steppe: A Military History of Central Asia, 500 B.C. to A.D. 1700

By: Hildinger, Erik

Price: $17.31

Publisher: Da Capo Press: 2001-11-06

Seller ID: N4-209L

ISBN: 0306810654

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

The nomadic peoples of central Asia--Huns, Bulgars, Magyars, Mongols--are still known to us for their legendary fighters Attila, Genghis Khan, and Timur Lenk (Tamerlane), as well as for their feats of calculated brutality. (Timur Lenk would leave piles of severed heads in his conquered cities; another tribe sent nine sacks of ears to their khan.) Less studied is the remarkable effectiveness of their battle techniques: For two thousand years, these horse-archer armies were an unstoppable force to sedentary peoples, be they Romans, Crusaders, Chinese, or medieval. Erik Hildinger introduces th...
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None Braver: U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen in the War on Terrorism

By: Hirsh, Michael

Price: $38.43

Publisher: NAL Hardcover: 2003-09-02

Seller ID: B3-702

ISBN: 0451209834

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

New book.
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