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Officers in Flight Suits
The Story of American Air Force Fighter Pilots in the Korean War
Explores the culture of fighter pilots during the Korean War, drawing on memoirs, diaries, letters, novels, unit records, and interviews with some 50 veterans who served in the Air Force in Korea. Details their training, their backgrounds, and their encounters during battle, demonstrating how their
ISBN-13: 9780814780381 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
John Darrell Sherwood
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AUD $184.00
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Local release date: 30/09/1996
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]History of the Americas [HBJK]Postwar 20th century history, from c1945 to c2000 [HBLW3]Air forces & warfare [JWG]History of engineering & technology [TBX]Aircraft: general interest [WGM]China [1FPC]Korea [1FPK]USA [1KBB]c 1945 to c 1960 [3JJPG]

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Street without Joy
This classic account of the French War in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia is back in hardcover.
ISBN-13: 9780811717007 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: STACKPOLE BOOKS
Bernard B. Fall
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AUD $56.99
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Local release date: 30/07/1994
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]Warfare & defence [JW]

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Christians and Muslims in Ottoman Cyprus and the Mediterranean World, 15
Wrested from the rule of the Venetians, the island of Cyprus took on cultural shadings of enormous complexity as a new province of the Ottoman empire. This title uncovers the island society as seen through local law courts, public works, and charitable institutions.
ISBN-13: 9780814741818 (Hardback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Ronald C. Jennings
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AUD $193.00
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Local release date: 30/05/1992
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Categories: European history [HBJD]Asian history [HBJF]Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]Social & cultural history [HBTB]Cyprus [1DVC]Mediterranean Sea [1QSM]c 1500 to c 1600 [3JB]c 1600 to c 1700 [3JD]

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Hidden Power
The Palace Eunuchs of Imperial China
A significant role in Chinese history was played by the palace eunuchs, castrated men who developed a concealed subcaste that manipulated monarchs and caused the downfall of immense dynasties. This book chronicles the history of the imperial eunuchs.
ISBN-13: 9780879755744 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Mary M. Anderson
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AUD $72.99
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Local release date: 30/05/1990
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Categories: General & world history [HBG]Asian history [HBJF]China [1FPC]

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African Perspectives on Colonialism
This history deals with the twenty-year period between 1880 and 1900, when virtually all of Africa was seized and occupied by the Imperial Powers of Europe. Eurocentric points of view have dominated the study of this era, but in this book, one of Africa's leading historians reinterprets the colonial experiences from the perspective of the ......
ISBN-13: 9780801839313 (Paperback)
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
A. Adu Boahen
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AUD $58.99
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Local release date: 14/11/1989
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Categories: Asian history [HBJF]

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Tibet in Pictures
A Journey into the Past
One of the last records of the vanished art and culture of Old Tibet. Over 200 stunning b&w photographs of Buddhist images, religious sites, and people, taken in central and western Tibet during 1947-1949.
ISBN-13: 9780913546581 (Paperback)
Publisher: DHARMA PUBLISHING
Imprint: DHARMA PUBLISHING
Li Gotami Govinda
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AUD $75.99
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Local release date: 30/03/1980
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Categories: Photographs: collections [AJC]Asian history [HBJF]Tibet [1FPCT]

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Great Road
Life and Times of Chu Teh
Chu Teh, one of the legendary figures of the Chinese Revolution, was born in 1886. He was commander in chief of the People's Revolutionary Army, and this is the story of the first sixty years of his life. As a supreme commanding general, he was probably unique; surely there has never been another commander in chief who, during his years of ......
ISBN-13: 9780853452065 (Paperback)
Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: MONTHLY REVIEW PRESS
Agnes Smedley
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Local release date: 13/10/1972
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Categories: Biography: historical, political & military [BGH]Asian history [HBJF]Warfare & defence [JW]China [1FPC]