Afghan Napoleon by Sandy Gall
The first biography in a decade of Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Shah Massoud. When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in...
China's Leaders: From Mao to Now
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates a...
City on Fire : the fight for Hong Kong
A long-term resident and expert observer of dissent in Hong Kong takes readers to the frontlines of Hong Kong's revoluti...
Eat the Buddha
A gripping portrait of modern Tibet told through the lives of its people, from the bestselling author of Nothing to Envy...
Countdown 1945 by Chris Wallace
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER * “Riveting.” —The New York Times * “Propulsive.” —Time * “Reads like a tense thril...
Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
*LONGLISTED FOR THE HWA NON-FICTION CROWN 2020*Meet the three women who helped shape the course of modern Chinese histor...
The Anarchy by William Dalrymple
In August 1765 the East India Company defeated and captured the young Mughal emperor and forced him to set up in his ric...
Taliban : A Critical History from Within
Taliban: A Critical History from Within by Abdul Hai Mutma'in offers an inside account of the Afghan movement and their ...
Remembering Shanghai
Outstanding Memoir winner and Book of the Year, second place, awarded by the Independent Author NetworkA high position b...
A Brief History of the Samurai
'Clements has a knack for writing suspenseful sure-footed conflict scenes: His recounting of the Korean invasion led by ...
Taliban Narratives
"Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than th...
The Taliban Revival
The true story of the Taliban's remarkable resurgence in Pakistan and war-torn Afghanistan more than a decade after the ...
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China
One of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, 'Wild Swans' is an epic true story of how one family lived...
Taliban : The Unknown Enemy
From a small group of religious students formed in 1994, the Taliban quickly grew into a national movement that occupied...
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE D...
(Download PDF) Tao Te Ching
The most widely translated work in world literature after the Bible, Tao Te Ching or The Book of the Way is the classic ...
My Life with the Taliban
This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pash...
Nothing To Envy : Real Lives In North Korea
"A satellite photograph of Asia by night shows a black hole where North Korea should be. There is not enough electricity...
Taliban by Ahmed Rashid
"The standard work in English on the Taliban" (Christopher de Bellaigue, New York Review of Books ), by "Pakistan's best...
Afghanistan by Stephen Tanner
For over 2,500 years, the forbidding territory of Afghanistan has served as a vital crossroads for armies and has witnes...
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces in modern history. A ragtag collection of clerics and madrasa students...
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
"The 1948 Palestine-Israel War is known to Israelis as 'The War of Independence', but for Palestinians it will forever b...
Palestine : Peace Not Apartheid
Following his #1 New York Times bestseller, Our Endangered Values, the former president, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize...
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
A re-evaluation of Genghis Khan's rise to power examines the reforms the conqueror instituted throughout his empire and ...
Orientalism by Edward W. Said
In this highly acclaimed work, Edward Said surveys the history and nature of Western attitudes towards the East, conside...
Before Taliban : Genealogies of the Afghan Jihad
In this powerful book, David B. Edwards traces the lives of three recent Afghan leaders in Afghanistan's history--Nur Mu...
First They Killed My Father
Soon to be a major film, co-written and directed by Angelina Jolie Pitt Until the age of five, Loung Ung lived in Phnom ...
From Third World to First
Few gave tiny Singapore much chance of survival when it was granted independence in 1965. How is it, then, that today th...
The Railway Man
During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Ja...