 | Red Azalea by Anchee Min
Buy new: $9.36 / Used from: $5.00 She speaks with a very truthful voice. She experienced the cultural revolution in China.
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 | Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $4.00 Wonderful!
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 | Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Buy used from: $0.01 Understanding how she came to power out of poverty & held
onto her identity even in prison.
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 | POLAND by MICHNER
Buy used from: $32.95 Changes your entire point of view in understanding Poland.
Especially how the aristocrats destroyed their future.
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 | Peter the Great by Robert K. Massie
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.00 To fully appreciate Russia this book is crucial.
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 | Nicholas and Alexandra by Robert K. Massie
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $3.90 The complicated end of the royal family and how they had a part in doing themselves in.
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 | Catherine the Great by Henri Troyat
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $4.70 Helps to appreciate her spending viewed in the Museums.
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 | Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia by Orlando Figes
Buy new: $14.96 / Used from: $6.49 Truely a magnificent book!
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 | One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch (Signet Classics) by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Buy used from: $0.01 Learn about the Gulags before you go.
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| The Ship of Widows (European Classics) by I. Grekova
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $2.00 Very powerful.
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 | Wolves Eat Dogs (Arkady Renko Novels) by Martin Cruz Smith
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $0.01 On a lighter note with Arkady Renko as a gritty detective
whom it's easy to love. Try Stalin's Ghost also.
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 | Marie Antoinette: The Journey by Antonia Fraser
Buy used from: $0.01 It is very helpful when you visit Versailles.
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 | The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Duong Van Mai Elliott
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $4.49 The historical perspective of 4 generations is truly
breathtaking.
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 | Daughters of the River Huong by Uyen Nicole Duong
Buy new: $14.00 / Used from: $9.95 Very lovely & unforgetable.
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| The Things They Carried by Tim O'BRIEN
Buy used from: $14.00 One of the best books ever written about Vietnam & the
American soldier.
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 | A Vietcong Memoir: An Inside Account of the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath by Truong Nhu Tang
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $4.99 Excellant perspective & moving autobiography.
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 | When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace (Plume) by Le Ly Hayslip
Buy used from: $0.01 A woman's perspective,very powerful.
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 | First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers (P.S.) by Loung Ung
Buy new: $10.07 / Used from: $4.20 Painful truth.
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 | Stalking the Elephant Kings: In Search of Laos (Latitude 20 Book) by Christopher Kremmer
Buy used from: $36.50 Historical perspective of Royalty.
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 | The Coroner's Lunch by Colin Cotterill
Buy new: $8.64 / Used from: $0.93 On a lighter note a detective in Laos.
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 | Jar City: A Reykjavik Thriller by Arnaldur Indridason
Buy new: $10.08 / Used from: $3.22 An Icelandic detective that creates the right atmosphere.
I traveled there in January & this is dead on.
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 | Bangkok 8: A Novel by John Burdett
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 Learn about Thailand & Buddhism in a most delightful way!
A detective with a Thai sensibility. Really wonderful to
read all three.
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 | Pretty Birds: A Novel by Scott Simon
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $0.77 A female sniper in Sarevjo. My favorite book found in 2008.
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