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Underground Front
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010; US$ 35.00Underground Front is a pioneering examination of the role that the Chinese Communist Party has played in Hong Kong since the creation of the Party in 1921, through to the present day. This book brings events right up to date and includes the results of a survey about the Hong Kong public's attitude towards the CCP. more...
Crisis and Crossfire
Potomac Books Inc. 2005; US$ 21.95Provides a concise and insightful introduction to the turbulent history of U.S.-Middle East relations more...
A Carpet Ride to Khiva
Icon Books 2010; US$ 11.65Chris Alexander originally travelled to Khiva, a remote walled city in Uzbekistan on the route of the ancient Silk Road, to write a guidebook. But he stayed, mesmerized by a world of silk and forgotten 15th-century carpet designs ? discovering indigo blue, madder red, pomegranate gold and the subtle shades of life in a desert oasis. Alexander?s... more...
Surviving the Angel of Death
Tanglewood Press 2011; US$ 8.95Eva Mozes Kor was just ten years old when she arrived in Auschwitz. While her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas chambers, she and her twin, Miriam, were herded into the care of the man known as the Angel of Death, Dr. Josef Mengele. Subjected to sadistic medical experiments, she was forced to fight daily for her and her twin's survival.... more...
Two Steps From Glory
Winning Strategy Press 2012; US$ 9.99African Americans enlisted by the hundreds of thousands during World War II, swelling the ranks of the U.S. military by more than a million strong. And as they had in every U.S. war from the Revolutionary War on, blacks signed up with two goals in mind: to fight for the country they loved and to earn, on the battlefield, the respect theyd been... more...
That Noble Dream
Cambridge University Press 1988; US$ 29.00Novick shows how the idea and ideal of objectivity were elaborated, challenged, modified, and defended over the last century. more...
The Sole Spokesman
Cambridge University Press 1985; US$ 32.00Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review more...
A Brief History of Ireland
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 13.11From the dawn of history to the decline of the Celtic Tiger - how Ireland has been shaped over the centuries. more...
A Short History of Europe
Oldcastle Books 2011; US$ 8.74What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different ideas, philosophies, religions and attitudes. Nonetheless, it has a common thread of history running through it, stitching the lands and peoples of its past and present together into one fabric and held together... more...
Richard III
The History Press 2011; US$ 18.94The story of the most vilified English king, from model of nobility to murderer and monster. Richard III has been written off in history as one of England's evil kings. His usurpation of the throne from his nephew, the story of the 'Princes in the Tower' and generations of pro-Tudor historians ensureed his fame as the disfigured murderer portrayed... more...









