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A History of Korea by Kyung Moon Hwang
$50.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: Macmillan Essential Histories Ser.
This accessible and engaging new edition continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Fully revised throughout, the author takes a thematic and chronological approach to guide readers from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience. Episodic acco ...Show more
The Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 by Efraim Karsh
$22.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
The Iran-Iraq War, which ended in August 1988, one month short of its eighth anniversary, was one of the longest, bloodiest and costliest Third World armed conflicts in the twentieth century. Professor Karsh addresses the causes of the Iran-Iraq War, unpacking the objectives of the two belligerents and ...Show more
The Korean War by Carter Malkasian
$22.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
The Korean War was a significant turning point in the Cold War. This book explains how the conflict in a small peninsula in East Asia had a tremendous impact on the entire international system and the balance of power between the two superpowers, America and Russia. Through the conflict, the West demons ...Show more
The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89 by Gregory Barnes; Gregory Fremont-Barnes
$22.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
The Soviet invasion of neighbouring Afghanistan in December 1979 sparked a bloody nine-year conflict with the Mujahideen until Soviet forces withdrew in 1988-89, dooming the communist Afghanistan government to defeat by Afghan popular resistance backed by the USA and other powers. The Soviet invasion ha ...Show more
The Vietnam War by Andy Wiest (Professor of History and Director, Vietnam Studies Program and Co-director, Center for the Study of War and Society, University of Southern Mississippi, USA)
$22.99 AUD
Category: War/Military | Series: Essential Histories Ser.
America entered the Vietnam War certain of its moral mission to save the world from the advance of communism. As this title explains, however, the war was not at all what the US expected. Outnumbered and outgunned the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces resorted to a guerrilla war.
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