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A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present
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In A Modern History of Japan, Andrew Gordon sets to do the ambitious - to give a bottom up approach to writing a historical narrative - without ignoring the big picture. Gordon intertwines several interrelated events in Japan's continuing history pertaining to social markers - from the Tokugawa era to the present. By doing this he brings to presence a ... »
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Ghost Soldiers: The Epic Account of World War II's Greatest Rescue Mission
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This was an outstanding book, about a real WW2 event. The author (Sides) does a terrific job of balancing the details of the raid itself, the personal story of a lot of the main figures, and the overall "big picture" of the Pacific war. He also addresses the cultural differences between the Empire of Japan and the USA that played so strong an underlyin... »
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Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War, 1939-1953
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Little by little we learn more about the war in the East in WWII. Until the Russians opened their archives to Western historians, most of the events were described through the eyes of German generals who had their own axes to grind. This remarkable volume by an Irish scholar attempts to see the victory through the mind of Stalin. If there are any diari... »
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A Concise History of the Middle East
I thought this book would have been a great source of information for personal use, however my professor used it as a text and it didn't work well for me.... »
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