The Halberd at Red Cliff
The Halberd at Red Cliff by Tian Xiao Fei (2018) is an excellent addition to my library of literature on The Three Kingdoms. Tian is…
Tariq Ali’s Book Recommendations
Tariq Ali is a polymath. Age 80 he was born in Lahore, British India. He studied in Oxford. He has written many history and political…
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China Alone – Part 2
Before the victors set up The Nuremberg trials to try the Germans and the Tokyo trials to try the Japanese, there are no crimes known…
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Nineveh
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city,” said the Lord to Jonah. The Scriptures have fascinated generations of explorers to dig in Mesopotamia. Here are…
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China Alone – Part 1
Before the Japanese attacked the US naval base in Pearl Harbour on 7 Dec 1941, which forced the US to action, China fought the Japanese…
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Truman and Global Conflicts
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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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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