Pin Yathay is a project engineer with the French Development Agency. David Chandler is Professor Emeritus of History at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His books include Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot”s Secret Prison.
22 Ebooks por John Man
Pin Yathay: Stay Alive, My Son
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of Pu …
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John Man: Samurai
The definitive history of the Samurai, by acclaimed author of Ninja: 1, 000 Years of the Shadow Warrior“One could ask for no better storyteller or analyst than John …
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Pin Yathay: Stay Alive, My Son
On April 17, 1975, the Khmer Rouge entered Phnom Penh to open a new and appalling chapter in the story of the twentieth century. On that day, Pin Yathay was a qualified engineer in the Ministry of …
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€192.24
John Man: Samurai
The name ‘Samurai’ is synonymous with the ultimate warrior. With their elaborate armour, fierce swordsmanship and code of honour, the samurai have become iconic figures whose influence can still be …
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John Man: Alpha Beta
The idea behind the alphabet – that language with all its wealth of meaning can be recorded with a few meaningless signs – is an extraordinary one. So extraordinary, in fact, that it has occurred …
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John Man: Attila The Hun
The name Attila the Hun has become a byword for barbarism, savagery and violence. His is a truly household name, but what do we really know about the man himself, his position in history and the …
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John Man: Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan – creator of the greatest empire the world has ever seen – is one of history’s immortals. In Central Asia, they still use his name to frighten children. In China, he is honoured as the …
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John Man: Great Wall
China’s Great Wall north of Beijing is one of the world’s most famous sights. Millions every year climb the line of stone snaking over mountains. We all feel we know the Wall. But we are wrong. It is …
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John Man: Gutenberg Revolution
In 1450, all Europe’s books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500 they were printed, and numbered in their millions. The invention of one man – Johann Gutenberg – had caused a …
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John Man: Leadership Secrets of Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan is history’s greatest conqueror. As a teenager he was an outcast fleeing enemies on a mountain in northern Mongolia, an exile, a nobody. Yet it took only twenty years for Genghis to …
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John Man: Terracotta Army
The Terracotta Army is one of the greatest, and most famous, archaeological discoveries of all time. 6, 000 life-size figures of warriors and horses were interred in the Mausoleum of the First …
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John Man: Xanadu
**A SOURCE FOR MARCO POLO, A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES**Marco Polo’s journey from Venice, through Europe and most of Asia, to the court of Kublai Khan in China is one of the most audacious in history. …
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John Man: Kublai Khan
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree Kublai Khan lives on in the popular imagination thanks to these two lines of poetry by Coleridge. But the true story behind this legend is even …
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John Man: Ninja
The Ninjas today are the stuff of myth and legend in comics, film and electronic games. But once they were real, the medieval equivalent of the SAS: spies, saboteurs, assassins. In their secrecy, …
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John Man: Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan is one of history’s immortals: a leader of genius, driven by an inspiring vision for peaceful world rule. Believing he was divinely protected, Genghis united warring clans to create a …
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John Man: Saladin
Saladin remains one of the most iconic figures of his age. As the man who united the Arabs and saved Islam from Christian crusaders in the 12th century, he is the Islamic world s preeminent hero. …
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John Man: Amazons
Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors. Equal to men in battle, legends claimed they …
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John Man: Barbarians at the Wall
‘Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.’ – Guardian The people of the first nomadic empire …
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James Waterson: Defending Heaven
‘;A very readable account of the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Song, Xia, and Jin dynasties to defend China from the Mongols.’Strategy Page Defending Heaven brings together, …
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James Waterson: Defending Heaven
“A very readable account of the protracted and ultimately unsuccessful efforts of the Song, Xia, and Jin dynasties to defend China from the Mongols.”—Strategy Page Defending …
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€5.08
John Man: D-Day Atlas
An Illustrated Guide to One of the Greatest Events of World War IIThe Allied landing in German-occupied Normandy on June 6, 1944 was the greatest amphibious operation in military history. In the …
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€22.29
John Man: Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan is one of history’s immortals, alive in memory as a scourge, hero, military genius and demi-god. To Muslims, Russians and westerners, he is a murderer of millions, a brutal oppressor. …
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