I served as an Infantry soldier with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. Much, but not all of the contents deal with my day to day experiences encountered during my time there. A good portion is a "bottoms up” perspective from my view as an enlisted soldier. The firefights we engaged in were vicious, deadly, with little time to reflect and absorb the experiences at the time. This book, to the degree it can, attempts to shed light and explain...

Surrounded by larger and more populous nations in the heart of the Muslim Malay world, Singapore has been acutely aware of its vulnerability since separating from the Malaysian federation in 1965. Singapore's government has met its defense needs with characteristic determination, building powerful, well-equipped and highly-trained armed forces based on a relatively small professional core and much larger numbers of conscript and reservist citizen...

Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de Camboya siga leyendo...¿Sabía que en Camboya se encuentra Angkor Wat, el edificio religioso más grande del mundo? En 2009, un historiador camboyano hizo varios recorridos a pie por el país devastado por la guerra. Tomó fotos, y una de ellas muestra una estatua budista rota y abandonada entre las verdes hierbas bajo sus pies. El artefacto data posiblemente del siglo I de nuestra era. Sin embargo, yacía...

Si desea descubrir la fascinante historia de Tailandia siga leyendo...¿Sabía que Tailandia es el único país del sudeste asiático que no ha sido colonizado por una potencia europea? Tailandia ha vivido su buena ración de luchas. En la actualidad, el gobierno tailandés lucha por encontrar su lugar en el mundo, oscilando entre la democracia y los regímenes autoritarios. Aunque su nombre se traduce como "Tierra de la Libertad", parece que el país...

¿Qué tanto sabe usted del Sudeste Asiático? ¿Le gustaría saber más? El Sudeste Asiático tiene una historia larga y complicada. Los múltiples elementos de su historia se encuentran a menudo enredados con muchas otras épocas, lugares y personalidades políticas. Puede ser un poco difícil desenredar los hilos de estas poderosas civilizaciones del Sudeste Asiático, pero este libro realmente ha recorrido toda la gama en lo que respecta a encontrar...

"Laos, 1981: When an unofficial mailman drops off a strange bilingual diary, Dr. Siri is intrigued. Half is in Lao, but the other half is in Japanese, which no one Siri knows can read; it appears to have been written during the Second World War. Most mysterious of all, it comes with a note stapled to it: Dr. Siri, we need your help most urgently. But who is 'we', and why have they left no return address? To the chagrin of his wife and friends, who...

The eccentric Mr. Hare, as he was, known to Sophia, the first, wife of Singapore founder, Thomas Stamford Raffles, and his Asian harem are brought vividly to life in this work of historical fiction set in Southeast Asia. Arthur Grimsby is an ageing expat in 1960s Singapore. Museum curator, ornithologist, freshly bereaved, he fears Singapore's looming independence and his redundancy and tries to complete one final piece of work: the life story of an...

A History of Overseas Chinese in Africa to 1911 explores early Chinese knowledge of and contacts with Africa through Chinese literature on Africa and current archeological evidence, suggesting Sino-African trade existed as early as the seventh century. Li provides readers with an uncomplicated history of Chinese in Africa, examining their story from multiple perspectives, using approaches and sources found in economic history, social history, international...

Recueil des contributions du colloque Images du Cambodge: mythe, histoire et mémoire. Ces contributions issues du colloque intitulé Images du Cambodge : mythe, histoire et mémoire, tenu à Paris en 2015, questionnent l'impact des processus mémoriels sur la constitution d'une identité culturelle en soulignant que l'histoire du Cambodge ne peut se réduire à la splendeur d'Angkor d'un cté et l'horreur des années khmères rouges de l'autre. Découvrez...