Titres dans Asie

The complete story of the Imperial Japanese Army's stunning victory over the British forces during World War II For the British Empire it was a military disaster, but for Imperial Japan the conquest of Malaya was one of the pivotal campaigns of World War II. Giving birth to the myth of the...

Bloomsbury presents Tsushima 1905: Death of a Russian Fleet by Mark Lardas, read by Phillipe Bosher A highly illustrated study of the naval campaign of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–05, focusing on the decisive battle of Tsushima. Japan was closed to the world until 1854 and its technology...

Bloomsbury presents Java Sea 1942: Japan's conquest of the Netherlands East Indies by Mark Stille, read by Thomas Judd A study of the battle of the Java Sea, a key Japanese victory in their advance throughout Southeast Asia. The battle of the Java Sea, fought in February 1942, was the first...

百万都市を一手に支配した江戸町奉行所の「実働部隊」が，与力と同心だ．治安維持をはじめとする幅広い分野にわたる彼らの業務の実態と，組屋敷での生活，そして深い教養と豊かな人脈に裏打ちされた知られざる文化活動に光を当てる．

永遠に続くかに見えた「天下泰平」は，またたく間に崩れ去った．近世社会の骨格を作り上げていた世襲的身分制は根本から解体され，国民の政治参加までもがはじまる．しかし，その過程で流された血は，とても少なかった．

Bloomsbury presents The Frozen Chosen: The 1st Marine Division and the Battle of the Chosin Reservoir by Thomas Mckelvey Cleaver, read by Matthew Hendrickson. Based on unpublished first-hand accounts of the battle, this is a dramatic retelling of the desperate Battle of the Chosin Reservoir...

'Makes the freedom movement relevant to newer generations through excellently researched stories of popular culture, sports and the extraordinary deeds of ordinary people.' - Swapna Liddle 'Fifty unforgettable tales where revolution meets serendipity - ordinary people doing the most...

Bloomsbury presents Tidal Wave: From Leyte Gulf to Tokyo Bay by Thomas McKelvey Cleaver, read by John Chancer. Now publishing in paperback, this is a vivid narrative history of the final stages of the Pacific War, as the US Navy began to slowly approach the Japanese Home Islands against fearsome...

Brought to you by Penguin. Michael Palin’s latest adventure sees him exploring one of the most fascinatingly complex and contradictory countries on earth: the Philippines. It’s a popular tourist destination, but also a place of extreme poverty for many. It’s a nation where religious...

From the bestselling author of Dictatorland, this is the long and turbulent history of China’s growing influence over African states. People are increasingly fascinated by – and terrified of – the role of China in the modern world. In Africa, this role has become something akin to a new...

The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895 is a seminal event in world history, yet it has been virtually ignored in Western literature. In the East, the focus of Chinese foreign policy has been to undo its results whereas the focus of Japanese foreign policy has been to confirm them. Japan supplanted...

Written in 1645 by legendary samurai Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings is a timeless treatise on strategy, discipline, and mastery. Drawing from a lifetime of undefeated duels and battlefield experience, Musashi distills his philosophy into five sections—Earth, Water, Fire, Wind, and Void—each exploring a different dimension of combat and mindset.

"War Crimes: Japans' World War II Atrocities" demands a prominent place in military history. Mr. Thurman and his daughter, Christine Sherman, bring to life the atrocities which the tribunal was formed to prosecute. War crimes remain a part of world history, and the world should know about them.

In 17th century Japan, a masterless samurai with nothing but his sword and unwavering resolve defeated over sixty opponents in life-or-death duels. He died undefeated.

Irgendwann 2027. Ein chinesischer Kampfjet stürzt nach einem riskanten Manöver in taiwanischem Luftraum ab. Pekings Machthaber befehlen daraufhin den Angriff auf den Inselstaat. Die USA, innenpolitisch zerstritten, treten in den Krieg ein, aber viel zu spät: China hat Taiwan schon annektiert, unterstützt von Russland, Iran und Nordkorea. Die globalen geopolitischen und ökonomischen Folgen sind verheerend: Die USA und China ringen um die Weltherrschaft, es droht ein dritter Weltkrieg, die Wirtschaft in Europa schmiert ab.

आज़ाद हिन्द फ़ौज के संस्थापक और भारत के सबसे चहेते स्वतंत्रता सेनानी, नेताजी सुभाष चंद्र बोस का निधन ताइहोकू...

Five years before The Times and over seventy years before The New York Times, a four-page broadsheet appeared in Calcutta to become the first newspaper in India and all of Asia. This newspaper, started by an Irish expatriate on Indian soil under British patronage, soon became a lighthouse of...

छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज अत्यंत मुत्सद्दी होते. त्यांनी आपल्या अलौकीक बुद्धीचातुर्याने व पराक्रमाने...

ब्रिटीश भारतातून जात असताना इथे फाळणीची बीजं रोवून गेले. कालांतराने भारताची फाळणी होऊन पाकिस्तानची निर्मिती...

India, a culture that witnessed the dawn of civilisation. That witnessed the rise of other cultures and watched them turn to dust. It has been celebrated and attacked. Admired and vilified. But through all these millennia, after all the ups and downs of history, it's still here! And now, after a...