The world in WW2 wasn't just divided into two opposing sides - the Allies versus the Axis, there were those who chose to stay neutral ...

This is a short book (163 pages) on the life of a Kamikaze pilot and I mean life as in his whole life. The book is therefore not purely abou...

This book was almost in my 2-star list when I started. The author tried to trace the rise of pre-war Japanese militarism to the Russo-Japa...

This is quite an interesting book about how Taiwan suffered collateral damage in WW2 as a result of the US's plans in the Pacific. Taiwa...

I thought this book was the author's thesis on how the Third Reich is viewed in the current collective memory. It was not. It was a co...

I must first declare that I have met the author of this book. As the book is no longer on sale here, I purchased it directly from her and ...

Shanghai at the beginning of last century was a city bubbling with energy and exuberance. It was a strangely workable cohabitation of Brit...

The subtitle of this book "Athens, Sparta, and the Struggle for Ancient Greece" gives one the impression that this book is anoth...

This book, written by an admirer of Subhas Chandra Bose, attempts to draw a link between what the man did before his untimely death and wh...

In early 1945, occupied Holland was in a bad shape. The occupiers stopped providing food for the civilians in the occupied territories and...

This book carries great promise, if not responsibilities. Alas, it did not deliver on either. It was not that the author did a bad job, it...

This is the first time I read a first-hand account of a POW involved in the Malayan Campaign. I am greatly affected by it, despite being b...

This book was published in 1942, immediately after South-East Asia fell to the Japanese and when India and Australia were threatened. What...

How does one answer the question - Did Singapore have to fall? Was the final outcome a result of a breakdown in discipline in the Commonw...

Li Zongren (李宗仁) is an important person in the history of modern China. A member of the Kuomintang (KMT) government, he rose to the positi...

This is an award winning book which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2013. Written by Malaysian author Tan Twan Eng, the story ...

This is a book that explores why Japan went to war in China in the 1930s and got herself entangled in a war with the British, Dutch, and m...

This is a book that tries to address the problem with the frequent singular emphasis on individual theatres in the Pacific War. The Britis...

This monumental book on the SS is one I believe many will not want to miss. For the uninitiated like me who thinks that the SS is but a s...

In this very last instalment of Showa Shi, the author focused on the 'after post-war' period of Japan. The forty years between 195...