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A Noble Life: Story of Aung San Suu Kyi

By Liam Gearon

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Pascal Khoo Thwe

Burma: The Longest War, 1941-45

By Louis Allen

Katya and the Prince of Siam

By Eileen Hunter, Narisa Chakrabongse

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

The Lady: Aung San Suu Kyi: Nobel Laureate and Burma's Prisoner

By Barbara Victor

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Keggie Carew

Adventures of a Young Naturalist: SIR DAVID ATTENBOROUGH'S ZOO QUEST EXPEDITIONS

By Attenborough, Sir David

The Admiral's Baby

By Laurens Van Der Post

Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West

By Blaine Harden

A Name on a Wall: Two Men, Two Wars, Two Destinies

By Mark Byford

The Jungle Journal: Prisoners of the Japanese in Java 1942-45

By Frank Williams, Ronald Williams

In the Footsteps of Stamford Raffles

By Nigel Barley

Home Was the Land of Morning Calm: A Saga of a Korean-American Family

By K.Connie Kang

The Jungle is Neutral: The World Famous True Story of Guerilla Warfare Against the Japanese in Malaya

By Chapman F Spencer

Stolen: Escape from Syria

By Louise Monaghan

A Child at Arms

By Patrick Davis

A History of the World in 47 Borders: The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller

By Jonn Elledge

You Got Nothing Coming

By Jimmy Lerner

A Servant of Sarawak: Reminiscences of a Crown Counsel in 1950s Borneo

By Peter Mooney

Chinese Hordes and Human Waves

By Brigadier Brian Parritt, CBE CN

Dear Leader: North Korea's senior propagandist exposes shocking truths behind the regime

By Jang Jin-Sung

From Biplanes to Fast Jets: A pilot's life in the Royal Air Force 1942-1973

By Ken Aedy

Raffles and the British Invasion of Java

By Tim Hannigan

The Edge of the Sword

By Anthony Farrar-Hockley

Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam

By Neil Sheehan

Mad Mike: the Life of Brigadier Michael Calvert

By David Rooney

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

China's Great Wall of Debt: Shadow Banks, Ghost Cities, Massive Loans and the End of the Chinese Miracle

By Dinny McMahon

Surviving the Killing Fields: Cambodian Odyssey

By Haing S. Ngor, Roger Warner