Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945, Hardcover - Steven K. Bailey

DescriptionBold Venture tells the nearly forgotten story of the American airmen who flew perilous combat missions over Hong Kong during the Second ...

DescriptionThis book gives an account of Hong Kong's medical and health development from the Second World War to the present day, investigates how ...

Reducere. Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American...

Reducere. In the late 1970s, at the close of the Cultural Revolution, a group of young, largely auto-didact artists in China endeavored to create artwork tha...

Reducere. "Letters to Imogene" provides detailed behind-the-scenes accounts of some of the well known and lesser known battles of World War II, including cam...

DescriptionChinese medicine has a rich history that has only been made more complex by its integration with "Western" biomedicine. Legitimization o...

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Like the other Sasek classics, this is a facsimile edition of the original book. The brilliant, vibrant illustrations have been meticulously preser...

Reducere. WHIRLWIND is the first book to tell the complete, awe-inspiring story of the Allied air war against Japan--the most important strategic bombing cam...

Mick and Margery Jennings's comfortable life in Singapore ended with the Japanese invasion in late 1941. Margery was captured in Sumatra after HMV ...

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Reducere. Baseball has been called America's true melting pot, a game that unites us as a people. Issei Baseball is the story of the pioneers of Japanese Ame...

Stepping away from the lights and into the shadows, one adventurous photographer embarks on an underground voyeuristic journey, documenting a curio...

Reducere. The book features a passionate and clinically relevant synthesis of Dr. Liu's discipleship with Yang Zhenhai ( 楊真海), one of the last remaining mast...

A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II.On Febru...

Reducere. Trope Hong Kong, the third volume in the Trope City Editions series, celebrates the juxtaposition of colorful chaos and architectural order of this...

DescriptionThe Darkest Year is acclaimed author William K. Klingaman's narrative history of the American home front from December 7, 1941 through t...

This is the previously untold story of the brave Lancastrians who endured the Fall of Singapore, and their subsequent incarceration at Keijo POW ca...

A comprehensive overview on the architecture of Hong Kong's transformative period featuring more than 300 buildings, with detailed background infor...

Rare account of the experiences of a Chindit operating deep behind enemy lines in Burma.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Daniel BerkeIllu...

Dan and the Hong Kong Mystery - Richard MacAndrew

At the end of the Second World War, Hong Kong lived up to its description as "the barren island." It had few natural resources, its trade and infra...

Reducere. NATIONAL BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE MOST INSPIRING BOOKS OF 2018 BY INC. The Messy Middle is the indispensable guide to navigating the volatility ...

As the waves of Occupy movements gradually recede, we soon forget the political hope and passions these events have offered. Instead, we are increa...

This textbook offers a reader-friendly overview of Hong Kong's legal system, covering both the origins in British law and the application of the Ba...

Reducere. Germany's fast-hitting Panzer divisions made history with their astonishing victories in the opening years of World War II, but the bulk of the Arm...

Four years of fear: escapes, resistance, internment, occupation and finally - liberation. Philip Cracknell brings his unrivalled knowledge of Hong ...

Reducere. The definitive history of American war reporting in the Pacific theater of World War II, from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the atomic bombings of ...

Reducere. Hong Kong without Us is a decentralized book of revolutionary poetry. Drawn directly from the voices of Hong Kong during its anti-extradition prote...

Through an interdisciplinary methodological approach, this book examines both online institutional representations and public views of Hong Kong an...

More than five thousand American civilian men, women, and children living in the Philippines during World War II were confined to internment camps....

Reducere. "The Scattered Flock, " the last volume of this new series of translations, contains chapters 91-120 that mark the disastrous end of the 108 heroes...

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In this new edition, Tim Summers brings his analysis of the politics of Hong Kong fully up to date and discusses the ramifications for the city of ...

At once a contemporary reflection on India's rich history and a biographical retellinp of E.M. Forster's travels through the country in the early 1...

Reducere. ?Iron Ox contains chapters 63-90 of the original and can be divided into four main sections. The first of these is very much concerned with the que...

Reducere. DescriptionIN NOVEMBER 1999, Hong Kong signed a US$3.2 billion deal with The Walt Disney Company to create China's first Disney resort. Six years l...

Reducere. As the Japanese economy languished in the 1990s Japanese government officials, business executives, and opinion leaders concluded that their econom...

A charming look at felines in a range of quirky and atmospheric shops in Hong Kong.Illustrations: 90 Illustrations, color

Evocative, funny and full of life, this is a beautifully written and well observed childhood memoir of growing up in colonial Hong Kong shortly aft...

Reducere. Ninety-nine years of colonial rule are ending as the British prepare to hand over Hong Kong to China. For Betty Mullard and her son, Bunt, it doesn...

One of the most explosive radicalisations of the twenty-first century swept Hong Kong in 2019-20 as a campaign against an extradition bill transfor...