Colonel John Biddulph (25 July 1840 – 24 December 1921) was a British soldier, author and naturalist who served in the government of British India.He was educated at Westminster School, and at…
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"Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company" is a culturally and socially significant 1860 novel by Multatuli (the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker) which was to play…
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The oceans can be a dangerous place; Captain Richard Phillips knew this. Still he never imagined what would happen to him or his crew on April 8, 2009, when Somalian pirates boarded and captured his…
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Editor’s note … There is certainly no dearth of literature on Philippine History. Quite a lot has been written on the different eras of Philippine History by some Filipinos and Americans writers like…
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A firsthand report on contemporary Vietnam presents a portrait of a nation that is struggling under the hold of Communism and places the Vietnam war in the perspective of a four-thousand-year-old…
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With Love, From Malaysia is an intimate look at Malaysia in the 1970s, through a series of letters home by a young Canadian mother. With two toddlers and her Malaysian surgeon husband, she adjusts to…
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An American woman plays a redeeming role amidst America's duplicity and betrayal of the Philippine struggle for independence during the revolution against Spain, which culminated in the…
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"A History of the Philippines" by Dr. Samuel K. Tan offers a conceptual framework of what he calls the story of man in the Philippines in the context of the specific ecological system and distinctive…
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In the spring of 1942, Noel Bacon returned from China, one of Claire Chennault's "Flying Tigers" who had won fame as the defenders of Burma. He was credited with three air-to-air…
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A true story of World War II: how Indian soldiers in the British army became Prisoners of War and were shipped by their Japanese captors in "torture ships" to Papua New Guinea, and how a…
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