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A haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland...

A "close-up look at the cloistered country" (USA Today), See You Again in Pyongyang is American writer Travis Jeppesen's "probing" and "artful" (New York Times Book Review) chronicle of his travels in North Korea--an eye-opening portrait that goes behind the headlines about Trump and Kim...

The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the barriers to women covering war Kate Webb, an Australian iconoclast, Catherine Leroy, a French daredevil photographer, and Frances FitzGerald, a blue-blood American intellectual, arrived in Vietnam with...

Follow author Robert Whiting (The Chrysanthemum and the Bat, You Gotta Have Wa, Tokyo Underworld) as he watches Tokyo transform during the 1964 Olympics, rubs shoulders with the Yakuza and comes face to face with the city’s dark underbelly, interviews Japan’s baseball elite after publishing his first best-selling book on the subject, and learns how politics and sports collide to produce a cultural landscape unlike any other, even as a new Olympics is postponed and the COVID virus ravages the nation.

From Alamein to Barbarossa, the war on China to Stalingrad, Al Murray and James Holland's We Have Ways of Making You Talk: New Histories of World War Two will capture readers with the most up to date and pioneering academic research on a host of WWII-related topics. The book will trace the...

Learn something new with each episode of Did You Know. This is a podcast where each episode is a short knowledge nugget that will give you five lesser-known or surprising facts on one topic.

The Tatas have a legacy of nation-building over 150 years. Dancing across this long arc of time are thousands of beautiful, astonishing stories, many of which can inspire and provoke us, even move us to meaningful action in our own lives. A diamond twice as large as the famous Kohinoor pledged...

Making sense of today's world can often seem like a daunting task, especially when it comes to understanding cultures and societies seemingly diametrically opposed to one another, such as China and the United States. Fact-dense and charmingly insightful, Kaleidoscope of the East focuses on Chinese history, culture, societal development, politics, religion, and arts. This expansive collaboration introduces Western audiences to aspects of China usually forgotten by media seeking sensationalized stories.

This “engrossing” (The Wall Street Journal) national bestseller and true “heartbreaking tale of tragedy and redemption” (Hampton Sides, bestselling author of Ghost Soldiers) reveals how a discovered diary—found during a brutal World War II battle—changed our war-torn society’s...