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John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967. He volunteered for the Third Force Recon Company, whose job it was to locate and infiltrate enemy lines undetected and map their locations and learn details of their status. The duty was often painful both physically and mentally. He was stricken with malaria in November of 1967, wounded by a grenade in February of 1968, and hit by a bullet later that summer.

In 1841, Nigel Halleck left Britain as a clerk in the East India Company. He served in the colonial administration for eight years before leaving his post, eventually disappearing in the mountain kingdom of Nepal, never to be heard from again. A century-and-a-half later, Kief Hillsbery, Nigel's...

The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural order, placing man, tiger and nature on a collision...

John Masters was a soldier before he became a best-selling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of 18 and was commissioned into the Fourth Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent North-West Frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. Bugles and a Tiger is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War.

The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner’s The Flying Tigers uncovers the hidden story of the...

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought...

There is an ancient Chinese proverb that states, "Two tigers cannot share the same mountain." However, in East Asia, there are three tigers on that mountain: China, Japan, and Korea, and they have a long history of turmoil and tension with each other. In his latest entertaining and thought-provoking narrative travelogue, Michael Booth sets out to discover how deep, really, the enmity is between these three "tiger" nations and what prevents them from making peace.

സാമ്രാജ്യങ്ങള്‍ ഉയരും, തളരും, വീഴും. റോമന്‍, ഓട്ടോമാന്‍, ബ്രിട്ടീഷ് എന്നിങ്ങനെ ചരിത്രം ഈ ക്രമത്തിന് സാക്ഷ്യം വഹിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ട്. ആ സാമ്രാജ്യങ്ങളെല്ലാം തലകീഴായി മറിച്ചിടപ്പെട്ടു, നമ്മള്‍ ശ്രദ്ധിച്ചില്ലെങ്കില്‍ അടുത്തത് അമേരിക്കയായിരിക്കും! ഇന്നത്തെ മിക്ക എന്‍റര്‍പ്രൈസുകളും ഒരു പറ്റം ഫൈനാന്‍ഷ്യല്‍ എന്‍ജിനീയറിംഗ് തവളകളാണ്, അവയാകട്ടെ സദാ കടത്തില്‍ മുങ്ങി ചൂടേറിയ പാമ്പെണ്ണയില്‍ നീന്തിത്തുടിക്കാന്‍ വെമ്പുന്നവയും. നിര്‍ഭാഗ്യവശാല്‍, അവയില്‍ പലതും ഐപി (ബൗദ്ധികസ്വത്ത്) കഴുകന്മാരുടെ പിടിയിലകപ്പെട്ട് ചാകും.