Nonfiction - Asian Reads
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In the skies over Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and became immortal as the Flying Tige...
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Samurai!
HardcoverOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Editorial Reviews Product Description This text documents the chivalry and valour of the combat aviator, Saburo Sakai, who fought American fighte...
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Lolas' House: Filipino Women Living with War
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /During World War II more than one thousand Filipinas were kidnapped by the Imperial Japanese Army. Lolas’ House tells the stories of sixteen surv...
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The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945--The Last Epic Struggle of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /The Ultimate Battle is the full story of the last great clash of World War II as it has never before been told.With the same “grunt's-eye-view” n...
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A World Destroyed: Hiroshima and Its Legacies, Third Edition / Edition 3
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the Americ...
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Japan at War in the Pacific: The Rise and Fall of the Japanese Empire in Asia: 1868-1945
HardcoverOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /"A lucid history of the rise and fall of militarism in Japan…" —New York Journal of BooksJapan at War in the Pacific recounts the dramatic story ...
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Implacable Foes: War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /May 8, 1945, Victory in Europe Day—shortened to "V.E. Day"—brought with it the demise of Nazi Germany. But for the Allies, the war was only half-...
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Hiroshima Notes
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Hiroshima Notes is a powerful statement on the Hiroshima bombing and its terrible legacy by the 1994 Nobel laureate for literature. Oe’s account ...
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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Pr...
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The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $17.99 - Original price $17.99Original price $17.99$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /As the Imperial Japanese Army swept across China and South Asia at World War II's outset, closing all of China's seaports, more than 200,000 Chin...
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A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /First-rate military history, A War of Frontier and Empire retells an often forgotten chapter in America's past, infusing it with commanding conte...
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Samurai!
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Editorial Reviews Product Description This text documents the chivalry and valour of the combat aviator, Saburo Sakai, who fought American fighte...
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Tarawa: The Incredible Story of One of World War II's Bloodiest Battles
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$15.99$15.99 - $15.99Current price $15.99| /In the summer of 1943, at the height of World War II, battles were exploding all throughout the Pacific theater. In mid-November of that year, th...
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Midnight in Broad Daylight: A Japanese American Family Caught Between Two Worlds
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99Original price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Meticulously researched and beautifully written, the true story of a Japanese American family that found itself on opposite sides during World Wa...
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To Hell and Back: The Last Train from Hiroshima
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /This book offers readers a stunning, "you are there" time capsule. Pellegrino's scientific authority and relationship with the A-bomb survivors m...
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Japan's Spy at Pearl Harbor: Memoir of an Imperial Navy Secret Agent
PaperbackOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Takeo Yoshikawa (1912-1993) was an ensign in the Imperial Japanese Navy and a naval intelligence officer assigned the task of spying on the U.S....
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As Good As Dead: The Daring Escape of American POWs From a Japanese Death Camp
PaperbackOriginal price $16.00 - Original price $16.00Original price $16.00$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“[A] truly uplifting tale of deliverance from certain death . . . A deeply personal read, in which the reader is drawn into the highs and lows of...
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The Rising Sun: The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /“[The Rising Sun] is quite possibly the most readable, yet informative account of the Pacific war.”—Chicago Sun-TimesThis Pulitzer Prize–winning ...
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The Airmen and the Headhunters: A True Story of Lost Soldiers, Heroic Tribesmen and the Unlikeliest Rescue of World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /November 1944: Their B-24 bomber shot down on what should have been an easy mission off the Borneo coast, a scattered crew of Army airmen cut the...
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Frustrated Ambition: General Vicente Lim and the Philippine Military Experience, 1910-1944
HardcoverOriginal price $36.95 - Original price $36.95Original price $36.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Vicente Podico Lim (1888–1944) was once his country’s best-known soldier. The first Filipino to graduate from West Point and a graduate of the U...
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India at War: The Subcontinent and the Second World War
HardcoverOriginal price $68.00Original price $68.00 - Original price $68.00Original price $68.00Current price $63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /World War II was a global catastrophe. Far broader than just the critical struggle between Allies and Axis, its ramifications were felt throughou...
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Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima
PaperbackOriginal price $69.00 - Original price $69.00Original price $69.00$80.99$80.99 - $80.99Current price $80.99| /In Japan, "hibakusha" means "the people affected by the explosion—specifically, the explosion of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in 1945. In this cl...
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One Square Mile of Hell: The Battle for Tarawa
PaperbackOriginal price $12.99 - Original price $12.99Original price $12.99$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /For Dutton Caliber's American War Heroes series, the riveting true account of the Battle of Tarawa, an epic World War II clash in which the U.S. Ma...
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The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /This masterful history encompasses the heart of the Pacific War--the period between mid-1942 and mid-1944--when parallel Allied counteroffensives n...
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