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Jennings, Christian: Across the Red River: Rwanda, Burundi and the Heart of Darkness
Book Number: 28052
Gollancz 2000 8vo hardcover 350pp, b/w illus. good, wear to bottom edge / good d/w with wear to bottom edge. Amazon.co.uk Review: Christian Jennings is not a man to rest on his laurels. Not content with the rigours of the French Foreign Legion (documented in his first book, A Mouthful of Rocks, he flew to Rwanda in August 1994 with a rucksack of provisions, The Day of the Jackal, and a self-confessed ignorance of the country beyond the knowledge that 850,000 people had just been slaughtered in brutal acts of genocide. Also, he had a television producer on her way who wanted to find the people responsible within the five-day span of her trip. Apart from the miraculous completion of that programme, the other thing to emerge from this immersion into the landscape of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, was a fascination with Central Africa that saw Jennings return again and again. He was to report for Sunday Telegraph and Reuters in Rwanda, its sibling-in-horror Burundi, and the former Zaire with fearful bravery, but in the impressive Across the Red River he navigates the territory between reportage and memoir. Cleverly matching his learning curve to the reader's, he moves from his virtual ignorance of Rwanda and its mesh of tragedy to a deeper understanding of the weave and durability of that net, achieved with a flowing and refreshing candour. If there are two lines of war journalism, with writers such as Michael Ignatieff providing a more intellectual overview from the hills, Christian Jennings is on the frontline with souls such as Maggie O'Kane, Eve-Ann Prentice and Anthony Loyd. As with the latter's My War Gone By, I Miss It So, Jennings is able to unbridle his sense of self to stirring effect and show the mundane tedium as well as the brutal tension of reporting from, and surviving in, war. Occasionally angry, more often darkly funny, his book proves an unsettling yet riveting critique of the unimaginable effects of genocide, those who feed off its corpse and the few, like Jennings, who live to open our eyes. --David Vincent nn Book Descriptionn A devastating account of the Central African nightmare, in the tradition of Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English and We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Keywords: Society Politics Philosophy History Across the Red River Rwanda Burundi and the Heart of Darkness Jennings Christian
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Roeder, O. G.: The Smiling General: President Soeharto of Indonesia
Book Number: 28577
Djakarta: Gunung Agung 1970 8vo. hardcover, laminated boards. 290pp. b/w illus. very good, owner''s inscription on fep.' ' '
Keywords: The Smiling General: President Soeharto of Indonesia
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Dan, Nguyen Trieu: A Vietnamese Chronicle. Twelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River
Book Number: 28938
McFarland & Company, Inc. 1991 Large 8vo. red cloth hardcover. 390pp. index. very good+. Inscription on half title.
Keywords: Twelve Generations on the Banks of the Hat River Vietnamese Chronicle.
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Riboud, Marc: Face of North Vietnam
Book Number: 29158
Holt, Rinehart & Winston, n.d. 4to softcover 121 b/w photos. fair, water damage to bottom edge, mainly on text pages at rear. most plates very good. Scarce.
Keywords: Face of North Vietnam Riboud Marc war military photography
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Beg, Muhammad Abdul Jabbar.: Historic cities of Asia : an introduction to Asian cities from antiquity to pre-modern times
Book Number: 29832
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Percetakan Ban Huat Seng 1986 8vo softcover 320pp index, b/w illus. very good. Includes bibliographies.
Keywords: Cities and towns Asia History City planning Asia History Asia Civilization Beg Muhammad Abdul Jabbar Historic cities of Asia an introduction to Asian cities from antiquity to pre modern times Beg Muhammad Abdul Jabbar
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Shearer, Alistair: Thailand: The Lotus Kingdom
Book Number: 30815
John Murray, 1989. 8vo. hardcover. 278pp. index. b/w illus. very good. po. inscriptions on fep / very good d/w.' ' '
Keywords: thailand
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Thieman, Leann: This Must Be My Brother
Book Number: 31536
Chariot Victor Books 1995 8vo hardcover 173pp b/w illus. very good / very good d/w. Two housewives who had never been out of Iowa, Thieman and Dey were officers in the Iowa chapter of Friends of Children of Vietnam (an organization that, during the Vietnam War, raised money and supplies for Vietnamese orphans and also processed adoptions). In early April 1975, they were asked to fly into Vietnam and bring back six babies for adoption. As the fall of Saigon became imminent, however, President Ford approved a massive baby lift, and the six babies became two hundred.
Keywords: History Asia Vietnam General This Must Be My Brother Thieman Leann
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Winchester, Simon: Pacific Nightmare
Book Number: 31778
London Sidgwick & Jackson 1992 8vo hardcover 302pp index. very good / very good d/w. The year is 1999. As Hong Kong collapsed in the years leading up to 1997, Asia became dangerously unstable. Civil war breaks out in China between North and South, Shanghai against Szechuan. A new North Korean leader follows in his father's footsteps and invades the prosperous miracle country of South Korea. The Western allies, committed to defending South Korea, are reluctantly drawn into a conflict not of their own making. Watching patiently nearby is Japan, the giant that is not slow to see the imperial possibilities of this state of chaos. But if Japan strikes, the result will be a total and devastating "Pacific Nightmare". The way events in the Far East could develop towards a full-blown World war.
Keywords: Society Politics Philosophy History Pacific Nightmare Winchester Simon
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Casino, Eric S.: The Jama Mapun: a Changing Samal Society in the Southern Philippines
Book Number: 32208
Casino, Eric S 8vo. softcover. 160pp. index, colour illus. very good.
Keywords: The Jama Mapun: a Changing Samal Society in the Southern Philippines
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Williams, Maslyn: Faces of my neighbour: Three journeys into east Asia
Book Number: 33509
Sydney Collins 1979 8vo hardcover 312pp. very good / very good d/w.
Keywords: Philippines travel Faces of my neighbour Three journeys into east Asia Williams Maslyn
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