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Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II
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Embracing Defeat tells the story of the transformation of Japan under American occupation after World War II. When Japan surrendered unconditionally to the Allied Forces in August 1945, it was exhausted; where America's Pacific combat lasted less than four years, Japan had been fighting for 15. Sixty percent of its urban area lay in ruins. The c... »
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Hezbollah: A Short History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics)
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This book is terribly concerned with the idea most people seem to have with Hezbollah, that it is a terrorist organization. The fact that Hezbollah commits murders, kidnappings and launches random rocket attacks at civilians may have led to this unfortunate perception. The author attempts to correct this by pointing out that Hezbollah (with Iranian mon... »
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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
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In the 1980s, Israel's "new historians" challenged a Zionist narrative that had been publicly unquestioned in Israel and the United States. Among these historians and those of us who have followed their work, Israel could never again be viewed as an underdog David challenged by an Arab Goliath. Since then, much of the debate among those who are increa... »
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Freedom at Midnight
This book inspired Miguel Sousa Tavares own book,
Equador, apparently, but only conceptually (I didn't
read the latter.)
There's ... »
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Palestine
Palestine puts a very human face on the ongoing tragedy of the people living in their own country, specifically those areas that have not been claimed by ... »
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