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Samurai! is the gripping autobiography of Saburō Sakai, one of Japan’s most renowned fighter pilots during World War II. Co-written with Fred Saito and Martin Caidin, the book chronicles Sakai’s rise from a poor rural upbringing to becoming an elite Zero pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy.

The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world. Long after the last helicopter evacuated Saigon, Americans have continued to battle over whether it was ever a winnable war.

ROT BENEATH THE BLOSSOMS — HISTORY THAT BLEEDS, NOT BOWS This isn’t your grandmother’s cherry-blossom scrapbook. It’s a war drum. A blade. A book thick enough to bruise, and sharp enough to cut. Myths don’t die gently—they get dissected. I’m here for that. You should be too. I wrote a foreword so long it could legally qualify as Part I. I refuse to shorten it. It’s my polite throat-clearing before I start flaying national myths like they owe me money. After that, you’ll find essays—more like battlefield autopsies—on Aizu loyalty, 47 Rōnin propaganda, Nakano Takeko’s...

The Jōshitai: Unsung Heroines of the Boshin War – Expanded Edition By Sumiko Nakano They weren’t supposed to exist. Not officially. Not in the histories written by men with ink and authority. But when the Tokugawa order crumbled and war came to Aizu, the women of the Jōshitai didn’t wait for permission. They armed themselves with naginata, short swords, and resolve—and stepped into the fire. This newly updated edition of The Jōshitai is more than a tribute. It’s a reclamation. An excavation of names, faces, and legacies that history tried to erase. Based on deeper research, ...

Buddhism was once a thriving and proselytizing religion, which competed with Hinduism and Jainism in its birthplace of India. Today, it accounts for less than 0.7 percent in South Asia. What went wrong? Why is it declining in popularity? Dr. Siddiqui surveys history to find the root causes of its decline in South Asia. He also recommends prudent methods to reclaim Buddhism.

The author examines the minority Rohingya issue tracing their history of settlement in Arakan state of Burma (Myanmar) and shows that far from the propaganda of the Myanmar regime and racist propagandists within the Burmese and Rakhine society, the Rohingyas are the Bhumiputras (Adibashis) – the genuine children of the land of Arakan. The author opines that the only way Myanmar can survive and evolve into a civilized state is not through the brutal and savage arms of injustice, denial, xenophobia, abuse and oppression of the minorities but a federal democratic framework that genuinely ...

Stories are stories. When a powerful story takes root in a child’s heart, that story may shape and guide that tiny heart to imagine, to hope, to love, to conquer, and live an extraordinary life. Some among us who have lived by magnificent stories, have themselves gone on to be storied. Such is the magic of stories. Stories can be fun. They may be blood-curdling. They can be funny. The stories we tell and the ones we dare not, in turn, they tell a story about us. While on a teaching mission to South America, I saw boys there had no books of the stories I know and live by. The book I wrote ...

Las historias son historias. Cuando una historia poderosa se arraiga en el corazón de un niño, esa historia puede moldear y guiar ese pequeño corazón para imaginar, tener esperanza, amar, conquistar y vivir una vida extraordinaria. Algunos quienas han vivido éstas historias magníficas, se han hecho dignos de ser recordados y celebrados. Así es la magia de las historias. . Las historias pueden ser divertidas. Pueden ser espeluznantes. Pueden ser graciosas. Las historias que contamos y las que no nos atrevemos a contar, a su vez, cuentan una historia sobre nosotros. Durante una misión...

Imagine that you are living in a country that does not recognize you as a citizen in spite of the fact that your people have maintained a continuous existence there for several centuries. If that was not enough of a traumatic experience, consider that because of your racial, ethnic and religious identity other ethnic groups that are fighting the brutal military regime in your country for their self-determination and human rights consider you as “settlers” from a neighboring country. It must be your worst nightmare when you realize that half of your people (almost 2 million) have been ...

The Arghandab River Valley is known for its lush vegetation from its grape furrows and its pomegranate orchards. It's also known as the birthplace of several Taliban leaders such as Mullah Omar and Akhtar Mohammad Mansour, and was a major crossing route for weapons coming from Pakistan into Kandahar. This hostile environment had already claimed the lives of many seasoned infantrymen.

What really lies in the forest’s depths? Aokigahara is a mystery. Born out of an explosion, its roots twist and turn, the dense trees seeming to swallow anything that enters it whole. In recent years it has gained renown as a “suicide forest,” but it wasn’t always this way. Aokigahara: The Truth Behind Japan’s Suicide Forest is fully researched from Japanese sources and looks at the history of the Sea of Trees, how it came to be, and why it became known worldwide as a popular suicide spot.

During the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese state sought to eradicate religious life throughout the country. But by 1978, two years after the death of Mao Zedong, the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping cautiously embraced the revival of religion. At the same time, the newly elected Pope John Paul II made a point of renewing outreach to China. Paul P. Mariani tracks the fate of Chinese Catholicism in the wake of these transformative leadership changes, focusing on the influential Catholic community in Shanghai.

Pumps? Power plants? Chemical Plants? ALL OF THE ABOVE! Examine the chemical factory theory proposed by Geoffrey Drumm and others—the only theory that explains the need for the gigantic size and weight of the pyramids, as well as the bizarre architecture of their internal cavities. The theory integrates “competing” theories as possible physically assistive components of the chemical processes, giving more credibility to these other theories which seem to lack purpose on their own. “Recent LIDAR discoveries have revealed that vast swaths of the Amazon Rainforest are hiding an ...

This newly published book chronicles the first thirty year history of the Cold War from a third party narrative perspective while also following the careers of five key CIA agents involved in various world hotspots during that time period. First hand accounts and true stories are included not only by the clandestine agents but also others allowing the reader to fully experience those tumultuous decades. Decades which began with the conclusion of the Chinese Civil War and ending with the fall of Vietnam. To a lesser extent, the authors recount their own experiences growing up as members of ...

This book is a general introduction to the History of Iran/Persia from the start of history till the end of Pahlavis. Iran's history started with the Medes in 700s BC and continues till today, with the Pahlavis being the last of the ruling dynasties which ruled Iran. Over the history, Iran alternated between Iran and Persia as the names. At times, it was represented by the names of tribes it ruled - Media after the Medes, Persia after the Persians, Parthia after the Parthians and even Zandiyeh after the Zand. However, Persia was the most dominant name representing the greatest two of the ...

« Par une nuit sans lune, une ombre glisse sous de rares lampadaires. Le faubourg nord de Tokyo s'assoupit dans l'air glacial, bercé par le ronronnement des trains. Adossé aux gratte-ciels, il se réduit à des maisons basses, des trottoirs déserts et à quelques vélos en liberté posés contre des voitures bâchées. Le lieu idéal pour se cacher, disparaître, s'évader. » Chaque année, quelque 100 000 Japonais, hommes et femmes de tous âges, s'évaporent sans laisser de traces… Un récit immersif sur un phénomène unique au monde.

In the grand sweep of Chinese history, the woman warrior is both ever-present and curiously obscured. She appears in poems and operas, in dynastic chronicles and martial folklore, yet she is rarely centered in the official narratives of empire. She is often remembered not by name, but by role: the filial daughter, the loyal wife, the grieving mother, the rebel widow. And yet, she endures. From the legendary Hua Mulan to the pirate queen Ching Shih, from the drum-beating general Liang Hongyu to the revolutionary matron Mother Lü, Chinese history is threaded with women who took up arms—not...

Dans ce livre unique, qui propose des réflexions personnelles, spirituelles et historiques – dont certaines n'ont jamais été partagées auparavant –, Sa Sainteté le dalaï-lama raconte l'histoire de sa lutte contre la Chine pour sauver le Tibet et son peuple pendant plus de soixante-quinze ans. Le dalaï-lama a dû lutter contre la République populaire de Chine toute sa vie.

With all eyes on Ukraine and the Middle East, Taiwan is emerging as the next geopolitical tinderbox. Despite sitting at the heart of the tense relationship between China and the US, Taiwan’s history and its people have long been overlooked and misunderstood. In Ghost Nation, Taiwan-based journalist Chris Horton tells their stories and explores why this diplomatically isolated country has become such an important player on the world stage. As China’s military preparations continue apace, the stakes have never been higher.

東大での講義をもとに歴史のポイントを語る。人気教授の授業を再現！　武家政権成立をはじめ歴史上の大きな転換点を題材に、日本史に流れる「ルール」をわかりやすく解き明かす。