Vice President Truman played an outsize role in world history due to the untimely demise of FDR towards the end of WWII. Unfortunately, he was…
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Month: October 2023
Lim Kit Siang
These 2 biographies took the writer, according to him, 2 years each to write. 2nd volume is just released. Both narrates the story briskly. Written…
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Malaysia: The Making of a Nation – Part 2
Malaysia The Making of a Nation was published in 2002. CBK provides concise pen portraits of our first 4 Prime Ministers as well as on…
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Malaysia: The Making of a Nation
Malaysia The Making of a Nation is the first of a 5-volume series of Nation Building histories of Southeast Asia. Published in 2002, it is…
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Fiction vs. Fact: Lust, Caution and the Real-Life Story
Most people assume the 2007 movie Lust, Caution directed by Ang Lee is based on a real- life assassination in World War 2 Shanghai as…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific – Part 3
There are 3 incidents that are major indictments on the record of Chiang Kai Shek. The torching of the city of Changsha in 1938, the…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific – Part 2
Storm Clouds over the Pacific 1931-1941 by Peter Harmsen is the first volume of a planned trilogy on the war in the East. Harmsen narrates…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific – Part 1
Storm Clouds over the Pacific 1931-1941 by Peter Harmsen is the first volume of a planned trilogy on the war in the East. Peter writes…
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Storm Clouds Over the Pacific
Hanjian is a Mandarin word used to refer to Chinese traitors who work with the enemies. Its literal meaning is Han traitor. In Cantonese the…
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Revisiting the Boxer Uprising
10 Oct commemorates the start of the Wuchang Uprising on 10 October 1911 which ultimately led to the collapse of the imperial Qing dynasty and…
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