From the land of lost content: The Dalai Lama's fight for Tibet

History

BARBER, Noel.

Asia

Collins

Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independence - but on British, not on Chinese or Communist terms. Here is the war as it was. Here are the planters and their wives on their remote rubber estates, the policemen, the generals and the soldiers, the Malays, Chinese and Indians of a polyglot country, all fighting an astute, ruthless, and well organized enemy. REVIEWS "..paints a journalistic profile of the modern mercenary. The author traveled to Sierra Leone, Bosnia, Lebanon, the Congo, Angola, and elsewhere in order to give the reader insight into who takes on the role of the mercenary in contemporary times and their role in the world's conflicts." Book News, 06/2008

The war of the running dogs: How Malaya defeated the communist guerrillas, 1948-60

Military

Sinister Twilight: Fall of Singapore

Fontana Press

Depicts the confinement of British prisoners in the Black Hole military jail in 1756 and examines the events that led up to their imprisonment

The Black Hole of Calcutta

Americas

Collier Books

Set in a South Sea island paradise on the eve of the Second World War, this novel follows the adventures of Kit Masters, an exiled young English doctor, and his love, Aleena, a Polynesian princess

The Other Side of Paradise

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Macmillan Pub. Co.

This exotic drama sets the love affair of Mark Holt and Serena Sirry against the backdrop of World War II and the rule of Egyptian King Farouk

Sakkara

A Farewell to France

Separated by the German invasion, Sonia Riccardi and Larry Astell, lovers before the war, must each help restore their country's freedom and their own chance for happiness

Contemporary

Chronicles the passion and forced separation of John Dexter, heir to a financial empire, and Julie Soong, daughter of Singapore's most powerful Chinese family, and the lives of three generations of their descendants, from the 1930s to Malaysian independence

Tanamera

In a colorful saga set against the broad sweep of history and the many figures that people it, the Korolev family flees the chaos of the Russian Revolution and settles in France, where they live and love under the shadow of a new war

The Weeping and the Laughter

McGraw=Hill

A voluptuous history of the glories and evils of the mighty Ottoman empire from the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent in the mid-sixteenth century to the death of Kamal Ataturk.

LORDS OF GOLDEN HORN (RP

RANDOM HOUSE UK

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