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Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

By Lucy Birmingham, David McNeill

Hoolifan: 30 Years of Hurt

By Martin Knight, Martin King (Author)

The Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise: Pentimento Memories of Mom and Me

By Robert W Norris

I Sank The Bismarck

By John Moffat

Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich

By Shirer, William L

Devil at My Heels: A Heroic Olympian's Astonishing Story of Survival as a Japanese POW in World War II

By Louis Zamperini, David Rensin

Weary: The Life of Sir Edward Dunlop

By Ebury, Sue

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon: The Diary of a Courtesan in Tenth Century Japan

By Arthur Waley, Dennis Washburn

The First Heroes

By Craig Nelson

Georgia Diary: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus: A Chronicle of War and Political Chaos in the Post-Soviet Caucasus

By Thomas Goltz

The Stranger in the Mirror: A Memoir of Middle Age

By Jane Shilling

'Cherry' Ingram: The Englishman Who Saved Japan's Blossoms

By Naoko Abe, Yasuko Arakawa, Yu-Jou Chenn, Nicole Churchill, Rachael Levitan

Falling Blossom

By Peter Pagnamenta, Momoko Williams

Gurkha Tales: From Peace and War, 1945 u 2011

By John Cross

Bacterial Signalling

By Jung, Kirsten, Kramer, Reinhard

Shadows of Hiroshima

By Wilfred Burchett

The Day We Went to War

By Terry Charman

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

By Arthur Godman

The Hiroshima Maidens: A Story of Courage, Compassion and Survival

By Barker, Rodney

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

By Hellenbrand, Laura, Laura Hellenbrand

Upon This Rock: The Sacrifices of a Japanese Nurse for a Young Church

By Eric W. Gosden

Codebreaker in the Far East (Studies in Intelligence)

By Stripp, Alan

The Secrets of Mariko: A Year in the Life of a Japanese Woman and Her Family

By Bumiller, Elisabeth

Family Romance: A Memoir

By Lanchester, John

Attila The Hun: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome

By Man, John

Genghis Khan

By Man, John, John Man

The Forgotten Highlander: My Incredible Story of Survival During the War in the Far East

By Alistair Urquhart

The Second World War

By Beevor, Antony

The Last Kamikaze: The Story of Admiral Matome Ugaki

By P. Hoyt, Edwin

The Rough Guide to Japan (Travel Guide) (Rough Guides)

By Guides, Rough