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The Necessary Aptitude: A Memoir

By Pam Ayres, Ayres, Pam

Ho Chi Minh (1890-1969)

By David LAN Pham

The Life and Times of Pol Pot

The Reluctant Communist: My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

By Charles Robert Jenkins, Jim Frederick

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew

By Lee Kuan Yew

Judy: A Dog in a Million: The Heartwarming Story of WWII's Only Animal Prisoner of War

By Damien Lewis

Pirates

By Ross Kemp

Surviving Tenko: The Story of Margot Turner

By Penny Starns

A Rumor Of War

By Philip Caputo

The Blue Door: A little girl's incredible story of survival in the Japanese POW camps of Java

By Lise Kristensen

The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule of Kim Jong Un

By Anna Fifield

The English Governess at the Siamese Court

By Anna Harriette Leonowens

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Khoo Thwe, Pascal

The "Daily Telegraph" Book of Naval Obituaries

By David Twiston Davies

Surviving the Killing Fields: Cambodian Odyssey

By Haing S. Ngor, Roger Warner

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

By Dinny McMahon

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

By Dinny McMahon

Behind The Wall: A Journey Through China

By Colin Thubron

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

From the Land of Green Ghosts: A Burmese Odyssey

By Pascal Khoo Thwe

Truman

By David McCullough

The Will to Survive: Three and a Half Years as a Prisoner of the Japanese

By Arthur Godman

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

By Loung Ung

Survivor on the River Kwai: The Incredible Story of Life on the Burma Railway

By Reg Twigg

Citizen Lord: Edward Fitzgerald 1763-1798

By Stella Tillyard

If I Die in a Combat Zone: Box Me Up and Ship Me Home

By Tim O'Brien

A Noble Life: Story of Aung San Suu Kyi

By Liam Gearon

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

By Attenborough, Sir David

Dadland: A Journey into Uncharted Territory

By Keggie Carew

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

By Barbara Victor