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Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > From 1900

Only Cry for the Living (Hardcover): Hollie S Mckay Only Cry for the Living (Hardcover)
Hollie S Mckay
R527 Discovery Miles 5 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Politics of War - Canada's Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 (Paperback): Jean-Christophe Boucher, Kim Richard Nossal The Politics of War - Canada's Afghanistan Mission, 2001-14 (Paperback)
Jean-Christophe Boucher, Kim Richard Nossal
R935 Discovery Miles 9 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

When Canada committed forces to the military mission in Afghanistan after September 11, 2001, little did Canadians foresee that they would be involved in a war-riven country for over a decade. The Politics of War explores how and why Canada's Afghanistan mission became so politicized. Through analysis of the public record and interviews with officials, Boucher and Nossal show how the Canadian government sought to frame the engagement in Afghanistan as a "mission" rather than what it was - a war. This book analyzes the impact of political elites, Parliament, and public opinion on the conflict and demonstrates how much of Canada's involvement was shaped by the vagaries of domestic politics.

Ethics, Norms and the Narratives of War - Creating and Encountering the Enemy Other (Hardcover): Pamela Creed Ethics, Norms and the Narratives of War - Creating and Encountering the Enemy Other (Hardcover)
Pamela Creed
R4,203 Discovery Miles 42 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the ethics and values that render a war discourse normative, and features the stories of American soldiers who fought in the Iraq War to show how this narrative can change. The invasion of Iraq, launched in March 2003, was led by the United States under the now discredited claim that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, critical questions concerning what we may be able to learn from this experience remain largely unexplored. The focus of this book, therefore, is on soldiers as systems of war - and the internal battle many of them wage as they live a reality that slowly emerges as inconsistent with familiar beliefs and value commitments. This work offers a reflective study of identity struggle from the perspective of emotional psychology and delves into the 'narrative field' of socio-politics. Going beyond the political contestations over the U.S. military intervention in Iraq, the author analyses original research on the evolving beliefs and value-commitments of veterans of the war, exploring their faith in its 'just cause' and their personal sense of self and national identity. This book will be of much interest to students of the Iraq War, US foreign policy, military studies, discourse analysis, and IR in general.

Mao, Stalin and the Korean War - Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s (Hardcover): Shen Zhihua Mao, Stalin and the Korean War - Trilateral Communist Relations in the 1950s (Hardcover)
Shen Zhihua; Translated by Neil Silver
R4,362 Discovery Miles 43 620 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines relations between China and the Soviet Union during the 1950s, and provides an insight into Chinese thinking about the Korean War. This volume is based on a translation of Shen Zihua's best-selling Chinese-language book, which broke the mainland Chinese taboo on publishing non-heroic accounts of the Korean War.The author combined information detailed in Soviet-era diplomatic documents (released after the collapse of the Soviet Union) with Chinese memoirs, official document collections and scholarly monographs, in order to present a non-ideological, realpolitik account of the relations, motivations and actions among three Communist actors: Stalin, Mao Zedong and Kim Il-sung. This new translation represents a revisionist perspective on trilateral Communist alliance relations during the Korean War, shedding new light on the origins of the Sino-Soviet split and the rather distant relations between China and North Korea. It features a critical introduction to Shen's work and the text is based on original archival research not found in earlier books in English. This book will be of much interest to students of Communist China, Stalinist Russia, the Korean War, Cold War Studies and International History in general.

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War - Riot Control Agents in Combat (Paperback): D. Hank Ellison Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War - Riot Control Agents in Combat (Paperback)
D. Hank Ellison
R1,344 Discovery Miles 13 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War documents the use of antipersonnel chemical weapons throughout the Vietnam War, and explores their effectiveness under the wide variety of circumstances in which they were employed. The short, readable account follows the US program as it progressed from a focus on the humanitarian aspects of non-lethal weapons to their use as a means of augmenting and enhancing the lethality of traditional munitions. It also presents the efforts of the North Vietnamese to both counter US chemical operations and to develop a chemical capability of their own. Chemical Warfare during the Vietnam War is a comprehensive and thoroughly fascinating examination of riot-control agents during the Vietnam War.

Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement (Paperback): Simon Hall Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement (Paperback)
Simon Hall
R1,256 Discovery Miles 12 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Between 1965 and 1973, hundreds of thousands of ordinary Americans participated in one of the most remarkable and significant people's movements in American history. Through marches, rallies, draft resistance, teach-ins, civil disobedience, and non-violent demonstrations at both the national and local levels, Americans vehemently protested the country's involvement in the Vietnam War.

Rethinking the American Anti-War Movement provides a short, accessible overview of this important social and political movement, highlighting key events and key figures, the movement's strengths and weaknesses, how it intersected with other social and political movements of the time, and its lasting effect on the country. The book is perfect for anyone wanting to obtain an introduction to the Anti-War movement of the twentieth century.

America and the Vietnam War - Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Paperback): Andrew Wiest, Mary Kathryn... America and the Vietnam War - Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation (Paperback)
Andrew Wiest, Mary Kathryn Barbier, Glenn Robins
R1,543 Discovery Miles 15 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The Vietnam War was one of the most heavily documented conflicts of the twentieth century. Although the events themselves recede further into history every year, the political and cultural changes the war brought about continue to resonate, even as a new generation of Americans grapples with its own divisive conflict.

America and the Vietnam War: Re-examining the Culture and History of a Generation reconsiders the social and cultural aspects of the conflict that helped to fundamentally change the nation. With chapters written by subject area specialists, America and the Vietnam War takes on subjects such as women s role in the war, the music and the films of the time, the Vietnamese perspective, race and the war, and veterans and post-traumatic stress disorder. Features include:

  • chapter summaries
  • timelines
  • discussion questions
  • guides to further reading
  • a companion website with primary source documents and tools (such as music and movie playlists) for both instructors and students.

Heavily illustrated and welcoming to students and scholars of this infamous and pivotal time, America and the Vietnam War is a perfect companion to any course on the Vietnam War Era.

The Vietnamese War - Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (Hardcover): David Elliott The Vietnamese War - Revolution and Social Change in the Mekong Delta, 1930-1975 (Hardcover)
David Elliott
R3,688 Discovery Miles 36 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A monumental work of research and analysis, this is a history of the Vietnam War in a single province of the Mekong Delta over the period 1930-1975. More precisely, it is a study of the Vietnamese dimension of the "Vietnam War, " focusing on the revolutionary movement that became popularly known as the "Viet Cong." There are several distinctive features to this study: (1) it provides an explanation for the paradox of why the revolutionary movement was so successful during the war, but unable to meet the challenges of postwar developments; (2) it challenges the dominant theme of contemporary political analysis which assumes that people are "rational" actors responding to events with careful calculations of self-interest; (3) it closely examines province-level documentation that casts light on a number of important historical controversies about the war. No other history of the Vietnam War has drawn on such a depth of documentation, especially firsthand accounts that allow the Vietnamese participants to spea directly to us.

'I Made Mistakes' - Robert McNamara's Vietnam War Policy, 1960-1968 (Paperback): Aurelie Basha I Novosejt 'I Made Mistakes' - Robert McNamara's Vietnam War Policy, 1960-1968 (Paperback)
Aurelie Basha I Novosejt
R897 Discovery Miles 8 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Speaking to an advisor in 1966 about America's escalation of forces in Vietnam, Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara confessed: 'We've made mistakes in Vietnam ... I've made mistakes. But the mistakes I made are not the ones they say I made'. In 'I Made Mistakes', Aurelie Basha i Novosejt provides a fresh and controversial examination of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara's decisions during the Vietnam War. Although McNamara is remembered as the architect of the Vietnam War, Novosejt draws on new sources - including the diaries of his advisor and confidant John T. McNaughton - to reveal a man who resisted the war more than most. As Secretary of Defense, he did not want the costs of the war associated with a new international commitment in Vietnam, but he sacrificed these misgivings to instead become the public face of the war out of a sense of loyalty to the President.

Off Target - The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq (Hardcover, illustrated edition): Human Rights Watch Off Target - The Conduct of the War and Civilian Casualties in Iraq (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
Human Rights Watch
R250 Discovery Miles 2 500 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Siege at Hue (Paperback): George W. Smith The Siege at Hue (Paperback)
George W. Smith
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Charged with monitoring the huge civilian press corps that descended on Hue during the Vietnam War's Tet offensive, US Army Captain George W. Smith witnessed firsthand a vicious twenty-five day battle. Smith recounts in harrowing detail the separate, poorly coordinated wars that were fought in the retaking of the Hue. Notably, he documents the little-known contributions of the South Vietnamese forces, who prevented the Citadel portion of the city from being overrun, and who then assisted the US Marine Corps in evicting the North Vietnamese Army. He also tells of the social and political upheaval in the city, reporting the execution of nearly 3,000 civilians by the NVA and the Vietcong. The tenacity of the NVA forces in Hue earned the respect of the troops on the field and triggered a sequence of attitudinal changes in the United States. It was those changes, Smith suggests, that eventually led to the US abandonment of the war.

Killing the Killers - The Secret War Against Terrorists (Hardcover): Bill O'Reilly Killing the Killers - The Secret War Against Terrorists (Hardcover)
Bill O'Reilly
R789 R601 Discovery Miles 6 010 Save R188 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Vietnam War 1956-1975 (Hardcover, Hardback): Andrew Wiest The Vietnam War 1956-1975 (Hardcover, Hardback)
Andrew Wiest
R3,907 Discovery Miles 39 070 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


The Vietnam War was arguably the most important event for America in the twentieth century. The US entered the conflict with doctrines modelled for the Cold War and a mission to wipe out Communism, but the reality of war in Vietnam confounded all expectations. This book chronicles the bloody guerrilla warfare that ensued.

A Brief History of Korea - Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People... A Brief History of Korea - Isolation, War, Despotism and Revival: The Fascinating Story of a Resilient But Divided People (Paperback)
Seth
R318 Discovery Miles 3 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Exploring Korean history from its ancient roots to the present day, A Brief History of Korea is the story of a people with a rich and united culture that has become two Koreas in modern times--one isolated and secretive and the other among the world's most successful economies. Korean culture developed on a 600-mile-long peninsula, bordered on the north by mountains and three sides by the sea, set apart from the Asian mainland. Korea was one of the last countries in Asia to be visited by Westerners and its borders have remained largely unchanged since it was unified in the seventh century. Though it is one of the world's oldest and most ethnically homogeneous states, Korea was not born in a vacuum. Geographically isolated, the country was heavily influenced by powerful China and was often used as a bridge to the mainland by Japan. Calling themselves as "a shrimp among whales," Koreans borrowed elements of government, culture and religion all the while fiercely fighting to maintain independence from powerful neighbors. This fascinating book tells the story of Korean domestic dynasties, empires and states, as well as foreign conquest, occupation and division. Today, the two Koreas are starkly different--North Korea a nation closed to the world and South Korea an economic powerhouse and center of Asian democracy. Chronicling significant events right up through 2018's Singapore Summit, author Michael J. Seth presents a relevant, interesting and important history of Korea within a larger global context. Korea's history is a turbulent one, but ultimately the story of a resistant and resourceful people in search of lasting peace.

Collected Writings of R.P.Dore (Hardcover): R.P. Dore Collected Writings of R.P.Dore (Hardcover)
R.P. Dore
R2,556 Discovery Miles 25 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This work includes landmarks in social, economic and political development in post-war Japan.

Hunting the Viet Cong - Volume 2 - Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, 1961-1964 (Paperback): Darren Poole Hunting the Viet Cong - Volume 2 - Counterinsurgency in South Vietnam, 1961-1964 (Paperback)
Darren Poole
R598 R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Save R114 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days
US Marine Corps in Vietnam: Vehicles, Weapons and Equipment (Hardcover): David Doyle US Marine Corps in Vietnam: Vehicles, Weapons and Equipment (Hardcover)
David Doyle
R509 Discovery Miles 5 090 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The March 1965 landing of the US Marine Corps at Da Nang, South Vietnam, marked the first large-scale deployment of US forces to the region. From then on, the Marine Corps fought continuously until May 1975, when two Marines became the last US servicemen killed in that war during the Mayaguez battle. With over 200 archival photos, many never before published, the weapons, vehicles, and equipment of the Marines in theater are documented in this volume. Small arms, mortars and artillery, tanks, amphibious, armored and soft-skinned vehicles, helicopters, uniforms, and personal and specialist equipment are featured in superb-quality photos and detailed captions, including photos from such legendary Marine Corps battles as Hue and Khe Sanh.

An Inconvenient Death - How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair (Paperback): Miles Goslett An Inconvenient Death - How the Establishment Covered Up the David Kelly Affair (Paperback)
Miles Goslett 1
R339 R277 Discovery Miles 2 770 Save R62 (18%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR.

'A compelling, authoritative insight into possibly the most controversial death in Britain this century' Observer.

'Masterful ... This book made me proud of my trade as a journalist' Daily Mail.

'This searing excavation of the mysterious death of Dr David Kelly is investigative journalism at its best. It is brave, relentless, dazzlingly revealing' Peter Oborne.

In March 2003 British forces invaded Iraq after Tony Blair said the country could deploy weapons of mass destruction at 45 minutes' notice. A few months later, government scientist Dr David Kelly was unmasked by Blair's officials as the assumed source of a BBC news report challenging this claim. Within days, Dr Kelly was found dead in a wood near his home. Blair immediately convened the controversial Hutton Inquiry, which concluded Dr Kelly committed suicide.

Yet key questions remain: could Dr Kelly really have taken his life in the manner declared? And why did Blair's government derail the coroner's inquest into Dr Kelly's death? In this meticulous account, award-winning journalist Miles Goslett shows why we should be sceptical of the official story of what happened in that desperate summer of 2003.

The British Army in Afghanistan 2006-14 - Task Force Helmand (Paperback): Leigh Neville The British Army in Afghanistan 2006-14 - Task Force Helmand (Paperback)
Leigh Neville; Illustrated by Peter Dennis
R451 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R86 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Fighting an elusive and dangerous enemy far from home, the British army in Afghanistan has been involved in asymmetric warfare for the best part of a decade. The eight-year series of deployments jointly known as Operation Herrick, alongside US and other NATO contingents within the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, have been the longest continuous combat commitment of the British Army since World War II. Together with Operation 'Telic' in Iraq, which immediately preceded and overlapped with it, this conflict has shaped the British Army for a generation. Enemy threats have diversified and evolved, with a consequent evolution of British doctrine, tactics and equipment. This book provides a detailed analysis of those specifics within a clear, connected account of the course of the war in Helmand, operation by operation.

The Red Mirror - Children of China's Cultural Revolution (Paperback): Chihua Wen, Bruce Jones The Red Mirror - Children of China's Cultural Revolution (Paperback)
Chihua Wen, Bruce Jones
R1,140 Discovery Miles 11 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

These evocative stories bring to life the tragic personal impact of the Cultural Revolution on the families of China's intellectuals. Now adults, survivors recall their childhood during the tumultuous years between 1965 and 1976, when Mao's death finally drew a curtain on a bitterly failed social and political experiment.A series of first-person narratives eloquently describes the life-long influence of this seminal period on China's children. Those who were teenagers in the late 1960s joined the Red Guards and the revolutionary rebel groups, following Mao's directives to make revolution, often to their own undoing. Those who were too young to participate directly were even more vulnerable. Although they had little understanding of the political firestorm that engulfed their parents, they were old enough to understand and feel the terror it brought. Vividly capturing the emotional intensity of the time, these stories explore what it was like to be caught up in revolutionary fervor, to be sent to the countryside, to be separated--either ideologically or physically--from one's parents, often forever.By undermining families and family structure, the Cultural Revolution created a generation of Chinese who view politics, the Communist Party, and life itself with deep cynicism. Presenting a spectrum of individual stories of people who saw the Cultural Revolution through the eyes of a child, "The Red Mirror" offers rare insights for understanding the crippling legacy of the Cultural Revolution.

Dispatches (Paperback, Main Market Ed.): Michael Herr Dispatches (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
Michael Herr; Introduction by Kevin Powers 1
R265 R207 Discovery Miles 2 070 Save R58 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

With an introduction by Kevin Powers. A groundbreaking piece of journalism which inspired Stanley Kubrick's classic Vietnam War film Full Metal Jacket. We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop. Michael Herr went to Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire. He returned to tell the real story in all its hallucinatory madness and brutality, cutting to the quick of the conflict and its seductive, devastating impact on a generation of young men. His unflinching account is haunting in its violence, but even more so in its honesty. First published in 1977, Dispatches was a revolutionary piece of new journalism that evoked the experiences of soldiers in Vietnam and has forever shaped our understanding of the conflict. It is now a seminal classic of war reportage.

Dispatches (Paperback, 1st Vintage International ed): Michael Herr Dispatches (Paperback, 1st Vintage International ed)
Michael Herr
R473 R360 Discovery Miles 3 600 Save R113 (24%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre." . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."--Hunter S. Thompson.

Flc Legal - The War in Vietnam That Was Never Reported (Paperback): Richard Franks Flc Legal - The War in Vietnam That Was Never Reported (Paperback)
Richard Franks
R466 R393 Discovery Miles 3 930 Save R73 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Blood, Metal and Dust - How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq (Paperback): Ben Barry Blood, Metal and Dust - How Victory Turned into Defeat in Afghanistan and Iraq (Paperback)
Ben Barry
R560 R468 Discovery Miles 4 680 Save R92 (16%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON MEDAL FOR MILITARY HISTORY 2021, THE BRITISH ARMY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS A FINALIST FOR THE 2020 ARMY HISTORICAL FOUNDATION DISTINGUISHED WRITING AWARDS. FIRST RUNNER UP IN THE TEMPLER MEDAL BOOK PRIZE 2021. 'With a soldier's eye for telling operational details, Ben Barry offers an authoritative, compelling and inevitably bleak account of the American and British campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.' Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King's College London Newly revised and updated with in-depth analysis of the current situation in Afghanistan after American withdrawal, Blood, Metal and Dust is an authoritative account of how the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were played out, explaining their underlying politics and telling the story of what happened on the ground. From the high-ranking officer who wrote the still-classified British military analysis of the war in Iraq comes the authoritative history of two conflicts which have overshadowed the beginning of the 21st century. Inextricably linked to the ongoing 'War on Terror', the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan dominated more than a decade of international politics, and their influence is felt to this day. Blood, Metal and Dust is the first military history to offer a comprehensive overview of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, providing in-depth accounts of the operations undertaken by both US and UK forces. Brigadier Ben Barry explores the wars which shaped the modern Middle East, providing a detailed narrative of operations as they unfolded. With unparalleled access to official military accounts and extensive contacts in both the UK and the US militaries, Brigadier Barry is uniquely placed to tell the story of these controversial conflicts, and offers a rounded account of the international campaigns which irrevocably changed the global geopolitical landscape.

Making a Night Stalker (Paperback): David Burnett Making a Night Stalker (Paperback)
David Burnett; Edited by Kendra Middleton Williams; Foreword by George Diaz
R555 R493 Discovery Miles 4 930 Save R62 (11%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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