"Based on an incredible true story, a young Marine fights an unbelievable battle in the abyss of Vietnam. Get a front row seat to the intense action, courage, and sacrifice that he and other Marines endured.
Experience the ferocity of battle, the deep bonds of brotherhood, and the stinging sweat of fear that hangs persistently over the jungle canopy. Imagine lying in a foxhole when a “Broken Arrow” goes into effect as the enemy sappers overtake their position, forcing these young soldiers to fight the enemy hand to hand.
This is the gripping story of Marine Corporal Danny Lane and other young Marines that stood in faith with God and the Marine Corps during the most agonizing times that no one would want to endure.
Instead of a hero’s welcome, he and other survivors came home to a country that didn’t honor their sacrifices.
“War is hell” but for some, surviving is worse.
Note: A share of the proceeds from this book will be donated to Kickstarter Kids—Character through Karate."
"Über den Verlust unserer Gewissheiten in chaotischen Zeiten
China, Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Eine christliche Aufstandsbewegung überzieht das Kaiserreich mit Terror und Zerstörung. Ein junger deutscher Missionar, der bei der Modernisierung des riesigen Reiches helfen will, reist voller Idealismus nach Nanking, um sich ein Bild von der Rebellion zu machen. Dabei gerät er zwischen die Fronten eines Krieges, in dem er am Ende alles zu verlieren droht, was ihm wichtig ist. An den Brennpunkten des Konflikts – in Hongkong, Shanghai, Peking – begegnen wir einem Ensemble so zerrissener wie faszinierender Persönlichkeiten: darunter der britische Sonderbotschafter, der seine inneren Abgründe erst erkennt, als er ihnen nicht mehr entgehen kann, und der zum Kriegsherrn berufene chinesische Gelehrte, der so mächtig wird, dass selbst der Kaiser ihn fürchten muss.
In seinem packenden neuen Buch erzählt Stephan Thome eine Vorgeschichte unserer krisengeschüttelten Gegenwart. Angeführt von einem christlichen Konvertiten, der sich für Gottes zweiten Sohn hält, errichten Rebellen in China einen Gottesstaat, der in verstörender Weise auf die Terrorbewegungen unserer Zeit vorausdeutet. Ein großer und weitblickender Roman über religiösen Fanatismus, über unsere Verführbarkeit und den Verlust an Orientierung in einer sich radikal verändernden Welt."
"It begins to dawn on the nine-year-old Sambhaji that his father has fled from the clutches of the Mughal badshah Aurangzeb and left him behind. He must now find his way back home with the help of strangers . . .
Under the shadow of an illustrious father, Sambhaji finds himself thrust into the Maratha-Mughal conflict from a tender age. His mistakes cost him dearly and when his father suddenly dies and he becomes the chhatrapati, it is as if he has inherited a crown of thorns.
In the nine years that follow, he faces a constant battle-internally, as palace intrigues simmer to kill him, and externally, as Aurangzeb descends on the Deccan with full military force.
Even Chhatrapati Shivaji had never faced a full-blown Mughal aggression.
Will he be able to protect the Maratha nation and Swaraj that was his father's dream? Will he prove to be a worthy son to his father-in life as well as in death?
History has been unfair to Sambhaji, but it can't deny that he inspired a generation of Maratha warriors, who eventually ensured the end of Aurangzeb's jihad."
"സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യാനന്തര ഭാരതത്തിന്റെ കുതിപ്പും കിതപ്പും വസ്തുനിഷ്ഠമായി രേഖപ്പെടുത്തുകയാണ് പ്രശസ്ത ചരിത്രകാരനായ രാമചന്ദ്ര ഗുഹ തന്റെ ഈ കൃതിയിലൂടെ. വിഭജനാനന്തരകലാപങ്ങളും അയല്‍ രാജ്യങ്ങളുമായുണ്ടായ യുദ്ധങ്ങളും ഗോത്രകലാപങ്ങളും രാഷ്ട്രീയ വടംവലികളും എന്നിങ്ങനെ ഭാരതം പിന്നിട്ട ഓരോരോ ഘട്ടങ്ങളും തന്റെ അനുപമമായ ശൈലിയില്‍ അദ്ദേഹം വിവരിക്കുമ്പോള്‍ വായന ക്കാരനു ലഭിക്കുന്നത് ചരിത്രവായനയുടെ അതുല്യമായൊരു അനുഭ വമാണ്. രാമചന്ദ്ര ഗുഹയുടെ ദീര്‍ഘകാലത്തെ ഗവേഷണങ്ങള്‍ക്കും അന്വേഷണങ്ങള്‍ക്കുമൊടുവില്‍ പിറവിയെടുത്ത കൃതി. ഭാരതത്തിന്റെ പുനര്‍ജ്ജന്മത്തെ ആധികാരികമായി അടയാളപ്പെടുത്തുന്ന അത്യ പൂര്‍വ്വമായ രചന."
"‘Impressive … Fascinating’ Sunday Times
‘An authoritative history’ Financial Times
‘Gripping and richly researched’ Rana Mitter
A superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule.
The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness reporting over three decades, interviews with key figures and documents from archives in China and the West.
The story sweeps the reader from the earliest days of trade through the Opium Wars of the 19th century to the age of globalisation and the handover of Hong Kong from Britain to China. It ends with the battle for democracy on the city’s streets and the ultimate victory of the Chinese Communist Party.
How did it come to this? We learn from private papers that Margaret Thatcher anguished over the fate of Hong Kong, sought secret American briefings on how to handle China and put her trust in an adviser who was torn between duty and pride. The deal they made with Beijing did not last.
The Chinese side of this history, so often unheard, emerges from memoirs and documents, many new to the foreign reader, revealing how the party’s iron will and negotiating tactics crushed its opponents. Yet the voices of Hong Kong people – eloquent, smart and bold – speak out here for ideals that refuse to die.
Sheridan’s book tells how Hong Kong opened the way for the People’s Republic as it reformed its economy and changed the world, emerging to challenge the West with a new order that raises fundamental questions about progress, identity and freedom. It is critical reading for all who study, trade or deal with China."
"How do Enslaved People Today Win (and Sometimes Lose) their Freedom?
A community of rock quarry miners in a village in Uttar Pradesh, India gave their tiny cluster of thatched roofed houses the name Azad Nagar. Freedomville. But it hasn't always been identified by that auspicious moniker. The miners renamed their village in 2000, after they staged a revolt that overthrew the profit-driven landowners who held their families in debt bondage for generations. Non-profits celebrated their tenacity; a film promoted their non-violent grassroots efforts; their success inspired other villages to fight for their own freedom. But the complex story of Freedomville, the murder that these revolutionaries nearly got away with, and the short-lived freedom its inhabitants created for themselves has never before been told until now.
Laura T. Murphy, a leading scholar of contemporary global slavery, spent years following the story of a small group of transgenerationally-enslaved men and women who fought to liberate themselves from their overseers, wrest control of the rock quarry in which they worked, and become masters of their own fates. Their journey reveals the precarity of that hard-won freedom, as those rock quarry miners fight to sustain their freedom after liberation without the literal and figurative tools necessary to run their own businesses, develop their village, and improve the opportunities available to their children. Their struggle suggests that the effort to sustain freedom after liberation is as much about successful revolution as it is about the stories we tell about societal change. In the process of capturing the constantly changing narrative that emerged, Murphy reveals how it is that slavery continues to exist in the twenty-first century, how the slow and possibly interminable dissolution of the caste system has led to a veritable class war in India, and how the global construction boom has contributed to the continued alienation of impoverished people around the world."
"In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war.
Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles. Its unique political regime—a complex power-sharing arrangement among the khan and the nobility—rewarded skillful administrators and diplomats and fostered an economic order that was mobile, organized, and innovative. From its capital at Sarai on the lower Volga River, the Horde provided a governance model for Russia, influenced social practice and state structure across Islamic cultures, disseminated sophisticated theories about the natural world, and introduced novel ideas of religious tolerance.
The Horde is the eloquent, ambitious, and definitive portrait of an empire little understood and too readily dismissed. Challenging conceptions of nomads as peripheral to history, Favereau makes clear that we live in a world inherited from the Mongol moment."
"In early 1942, the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating Allied forces throughout the Pacific. In a matter of months, Japan had conquered an area larger than Hitler's empire at its apex. Hawaiians and Australians feared a future under Hirohito. The fate of half of mankind was hanging in the balance.
But by the end of 1943, the tables had turned entirely. The American-led military machine had kicked into gear, and the Japanese were fighting a defensive battle along a frontline that crossed thousands of miles of land and sea. In Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943, historian Peter Harmsen details the astonishing transformation that took place in that period, setting the Allies on a path to ultimate victory over Japan.
The second installment of Peter Harmsen's three-part history, Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 continues his comprehensive chronicle of the Pacific Theater during the Second World War. Giving due emphasis to the Japanese-American struggle, Harmsen also sheds light on the other peoples involved, including the British, Australians, Soviets, Filipinos, Indians, and Koreans. Above all, the central importance of China is highlighted in a way that no previous general history of the war against Japan has achieved."
"The last installment of the War in the Far East trilogy, Asian Armageddon 1944–1945, continues and completes the narrative of the first two volumes, describing how a US-led coalition of nations battled Japan into submission through a series of cataclysmic encounters. Leyte Gulf, the biggest naval battle ever, was testimony to the paramount importance of controlling the ocean, as was the fact that the US Navy carried out the only successful submarine campaign in history, reducing Japan's military and merchant navies to shadows of the former selves. Meanwhile, fighting continued in disparate geographic conditions on land, with the chaos of Imphal, the inferno of Manila, and the carnage of Iwo Jima forming some of the milestones on the bloody road to peace, sealed in Tokyo Bay in September 1945. It was a world where the stage was set for the Cold War and for international rivalries that last to this day, and a new constellation of powers emerged.
War in the Far East is a trilogy of books comprising a general history of World War II in the Asia Pacific. Unlike other histories on the conflict it goes into its deep origins, beginning long before Pearl Harbor, and encompasses a far wider group of actors to produce the most complete account yet written on the subject and the first truly international treatment of this epic conflict."
"Arising out of Naipaul’s lifelong obsession and passion for a country that is at once his and totally alien, India: A Million Mutinies Now relates the stories of many of the people he met traveling there more than fifty years ago. He explores how they have been steered by the innumerable frictions present in Indian society—the contradictions and compromises of religious faith, the whim and chaos of random political forces. This book represents Naipaul’s last word on his homeland, complementing his two other India travelogues, An Area of Darkness and India: A Wounded Civilization."
"സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തിനു വേണ്ടിയുള്ള ചെറുത്തുനില്‍പുകളില്‍ ഏറ്റവും പഴക്കമവകാശപ്പെടാവുന്ന കേരളം ദേശീയ നേതാക്കന്മാരുടെ കീഴില്‍ ദേശീയ പ്രസ്ഥാനങ്ങളോട് അണിചേര്‍ന്നു പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചതിന്റെ കഥ. ആദ്യകാല ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് ആധിപത്യം മുതല്‍ വൈക്കം സത്യാഗ്രഹം, കേരളത്തിലെ ഉപ്പുസത്യാഗ്രഹം, നിസ്സഹകരണപ്രസ്ഥാനം എന്നിങ്ങനെ കേരളസംസ്ഥാനം രൂപംകൊള്ളുന്നതുവരെയുള്ള രാഷ്ട്രീയ വിമോചനചരിത്രം. സ്വാതന്ത്ര്യത്തെ കേന്ദ്രമാക്കി ഇന്ത്യാചരിത്രം പ്രതിപാദിക്കുന്ന പുസ്തക പരമ്പരയില്‍ മലയാളികള്‍ക്ക് വിസ്മരിക്കാനാകാത്ത ചരിത്രം."
"The Shogun's Last Samurai Corps tells the thrilling story of the Shinsengumi—the legendary corps of Samurai warriors tasked with keeping order in Kyoto during the final chaotic years of the Tokugawa Shogunate (1600–1868).
This book recounts the fascinating tales of political intrigue, murder, and mayhem surrounding the fearsome Shinsengumi, including:
● The infamous slaughter at Ikidaya Inn where, after learning of a plan to torch the city, a group of Shinsengumi viciously attacked and killed a group of anti-Tokugawa plotters
● The bloody assassination of Serizawa Kamo, the Shinsengumi leader, under highly suspicious circumstances
● The final tumultuous battles of the civil war in which the Shinsengumi fought and died in a series of doomed last stands"
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