Korea: Traces of a Forgotten War: Traces of a Forgotten War, James Butcher

Автор: Riedel Bruce
Название: JFK`s Forgotten Crisis: Tibet, the CIA, and Sino-Indian War
ISBN: 0815726996 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780815726999
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 25870.00 T
Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: Bruce Riedel provides new perspective and insights over Kennedy's forgotten crisis in the most dangerous days of the cold war.The Cuban Missile Crisis defined the presidency of John F. Kennedy. But the same week the world stood transfixed by the possibility of nuclear war between the United States and the Soviet Union, Kennedy was also consumed by a war that has escaped history's attention, yet still reverberates significantly today: the Sino-Indian conflict.As well-armed and equipped troops from the People's Republic of China surged into Indian-held territory in October 1962, Kennedy ordered an emergency airlift of supplies to the Indian army. At the same time, he engaged in diplomatic talks that kept the neighboring Pakistanis out of the fighting. The conflict came to an end with a unilateral Chinese cease-fire, relieving Kennedy of a decision to intervene militarily in support of India.Bruce Riedel, a CIA and National Security Council veteran, provides the first full narrative of this crisis, which played out during the tense negotiations with Moscow over Cuba. He also includes another, nearly forgotten episode of US espionage during the war between India and China: covert US support of Tibetan opposition to Chinese occupation of Tibet. He details how the United States, beginning in 1957, trained and parachuted Tibetan guerrillas into Tibet to fight Chinese military forces. The covert operation to help precipitate the conflict but the United States did not end its support of it until relations between the United States and China were normalized in the 1970s.Riedel tells this story of war, diplomacy, and covert action with authority and perspective. He draws on newly declassified letters between Kennedy and Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru along with the diaries and memoirs of key players and other sources make this the definitive account of JFK's forgotten crisis. This is, Riedel writes, Kennedy's finest hour as you have never read it before.

Автор: Glantz David M.
Название: Battle for Belorussia: The Red Army`s Forgotten Campaign of October 1943 - April 1944
ISBN: 0700623299 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700623297
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 44350.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Continuing his magisterial account of the Eastern Front campaigns, David M. Glantz focuses here on the Red Army`s operations from the fall of 1943 to April 1944. Glantz chronicles the Soviet Army`s efforts to further exploit their post-Kursk gains and accelerate a counteroffensive that would eventually take them all the way to Berlin.

Автор: Ken Small & Mark Rogerson
Название: The Forgotten Dead
ISBN: 1472834496 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472834492
Издательство: Osprey
Рейтинг:
Цена: 10880.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Bestselling true story of the fiasco of the D-Day landings exercise in Devon in 1944 in which over 1,000 soldiers were killed

Автор: Ihab Hassan
Название: Between the Eagle and the Sun: Traces of Japan
ISBN: 0817358358 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817358358
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 29220.00 T
Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка.
Описание: An invitation to voyage east leads Ihab Hassan to reflect on his origins in Egypt, on his home in America, and on his host country, Japan. Part memoir, part cultural perception, Between the Eagle and the Sun records a journey, echoing the "wanderers of eternity." The result is not a book about "them," some alien people living on a distant island, but rather a book about the author himself, living among others, living and seeing himself sometimes as another, assaying always to read the hieroglyphs of his past in the scripts of Japan.Lucid as it is intensely felt, at once lyrical and critical, the work offers a beguiling vision of Japan and, by tacit contrast, of America. For writing, the author says, is more than praise or blame, it is also knowledge, empathy, and delight. These attributes are evident in Hassan's treatment of Japanese culture, its people and scenes. Indeed, the people, rendered in vibrant portraits throughout the book, abide when all the shadows of romance and exasperation have fled.True to its moment, the work also reinvests the forms of memoir, travel, and quest. Cultural essays, travel anecdotes, autobiographical meditations, portraits of Japanese friends, a section titled "Entries, A to Z," fit into a tight frame, with clear transitions from one section to another. The style, however, alters subtly to suit topic, occasion, and mood.Japan may not hold the key to this planet's future; no single nation does. Yet the continuing interest in its history, society, and people and the incresed awareness of its recent trends and growing global impact engage an expanding audience. Avoiding cliches, sympathetic to its subject yet analytical, unflinching in judgment, and withal highly personal, Between the Eagle and the Sun offers a unique image of its subject by a distinguished and well-traveled critic, at home in several cultures.

Автор: Harrison Rachel V., Jackson Peter A.
Название: The Ambiguous Allure of the West: Traces of the Colonial in Thailand
ISBN: 0877276072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780877276074
Издательство: Cornell University Press
Цена: 44560.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present.

Автор: Ming, Ding Choo
Название: Traces of the ramayana and mahabharata in javanese and malay literature
ISBN: 9814786578 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789814786577
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Рейтинг:
Цена: 25080.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Local renderings of the two Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata in Malay and Javanese literature have existed since around the ninth and tenth centuries. In the following centuries new versions were created alongside the old ones, and these opened up interesting new directions. They questioned the views of previous versions and laid different accents, in a continuous process of modernization and adaptation, successfully satisfying the curiosity of their audiences for more than a thousand years. Much of this history is still unclear. For a long time, scholarly research made little progress, due to its preoccupation with problems of origin. The present volume, going beyond identifying sources, analyses the socio-literary contexts and ideological foundations of seemingly similar contents and concepts in different periods; it examines the literary functions of borrowing and intertextual referencing, and calls upon the visual arts to illustrate the independent character of the epic tradition in Southeast Asia.

Автор: Csaba B. Stenge
Название: Forgotten Heroes: Aces of the Royal Hungarian Air Force in the Second World War
ISBN: 1911512684 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781911512684
Издательство: Marston Book Services
Рейтинг:
Цена: 79130.00 T
Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Prior to the beginning of the Second World War, the Royal Hungarian Armed Forces - including the Air Force - prepared to engage the Little Entente forces; however, after a short skirmish prior to the war with the Slovaks, during the war, their opponents became the Soviet and American aviators. The Hungarian aces fought gallantly against such heavy odds and, after the war’s end, the new Hungarian communist regime turned against them as well; this book is the unique story of the 38 Hungarian air aces of the Second World War. The overwhelming majority of the related materials have been lost or destroyed, so the author has demonstrated truly Herculean efforts during his 23-year-long extensive research to write this monumental work. The book is based mostly on previously unpublished primary sources from Hungarian, German, Russian and American Archives, and also on the preserved documents of the aces and their families. The text is not limited to the highly detailed biographies of the 38 Hungarian aces; it also covers some important and related aspects such as air victory confirmation systems, air combat tactics and obtained awards. Besides this, the book contains more than 350 rare images - many of them are previously unpublished - and a selection of superb colour profiles, which show camouflage and markings for the aircraft of the aces.