Popular Asian Historical Books

Find historical books written by authors from Asia for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (76)

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Tomorrow I'm Dead : How a Seventeen-year-old Killing Field Survivor Became the Cambodian Freedom Army's Greatest Soldier by Bun Yom EN

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Country: Asia / Cambodia flag Cambodia
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In 1975, US troops had withdrawn from Cambodia, leaving the people defenseless against Pol Pot’s army, the Khmer Rouge. As the army took over Cambodia, thousands of innocent people were ordered out of their homes. In April 1975, fourteen-year-old Bun Yom was forced at gunpoint, along with his family, to march toward the steaming jungle. After a soldier separated Yom from his family, he had no idea he would not see them again for nine years. In his account of his involuntary journey from a normal childhood to enslavement in conditions so inhumane it seemed only death could free him, Yom shares ... continue

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Walking Since Daybreak by Modris Eksteins EN

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Country: Asia / Latvia flag Latvia
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Part history, part autobiography, Eksteins relates the tragic story of the Baltic nations before, during, and after World War II through personal stories from his family. Photos and map.

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Warring Visions : Photography and Vietnam by Thy Phu EN

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Country: Asia / Vietnam flag Vietnam
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Thy Phu explores photographs produced by dispersed communities throughout Vietnam and the Vietnamese diaspora, both during and after the Vietnam War, to complicate prominent narratives of conflict and memory and to expand understandings of how war is waged, experienced, and resolved.

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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama EN

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Country: Asia / Nepal flag Nepal
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"In the wake of China's invasion of Tibet throughout the 1950s, Lhamo and her younger sister, Tenkyi, arrive at a refugee camp in Nepal. They survived the dangerous journey across the Himalayas, but their parents did not. As Lhamo--haunted by the loss of her homeland and her mother, a village oracle--tries to rebuild a life amid a shattered community, hope arrives in the form of a young man named Samphel and his uncle, who brings with him the ancient statue of the Nameless Saint--a relic known to vanish and reappear in times of need. Decades later, the sisters are separated, and Tenkyi is livi... continue

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When Broken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge by Chanrithy Him EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Country: Asia / Cambodia flag Cambodia
Description:
A survivor of the Cambodian genocide recounts a childhood in Cambodia, where rudimentary labor camps filled with death and illness were the norm and modern technology, such as cars and electricity, no longer existed. Reprint.

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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places : A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts EN

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Country: Asia / Vietnam flag Vietnam
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Le Ly recounts her childhood in Ky La and her return to Vietnam in 1986 to search for the family she had left behind.