Learn about the history of India through a treasure trove of visually vibrant timelines packed with information on famous people and key events. Take a journey of the history of the Indian subcontinent from prehistory to the colonial period and the modern era through more than 80 timelines. 'Timelines from Indian History' navigates the history of India, through the formation of kingdoms, the establishment of empires, the struggle for Independence,...

This atlas is not just a document of conflict and war, it also shows the moves towards peace and the efforts to bring the fighting to an end through negotiation and boundary proposals. Using a series of 148 maps, this atlas provides a exposition of the course of the tangled conflict.

Learn all about the Indus Valley in this book, including its people and the story of a civilization that goes back some 5000 years. The Indus Valley was one of the first and biggest civilizations. It settled between modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, India, and China. There were more than 1400 towns and cities that made up the Indus Valley. The Indus people carved figures in clay, which tell us about their lives. We see the clothes they wore and the fact...

Former Tornado navigator John Nichol tells the incredible story of the RAF Tornado force during the First Gulf War in 1991; the excitement and the danger, the fear and the losses. It is an extraordinary account of courage and fortitude.

This title provides a major history of the Himalaya. The book is an epic story of peoples, cultures, and adventures among the world's highest mountains. Spanning millennia, from its earliest inhabitants to the present conflicts over Tibet and Everest, Himalaya is a soaring account of resilience and conquest, discovery and plunder, oppression and enlightenment at the 'roof of the world'.

Robinson forms a reign-by-reign record of the sultans, shahs, emperors and khans who all shared the Muslim persianate high civilization that flourished from Iran and Central Asia through Afghanistan to India from the 13th to the 20th centuries.

In 'The Bookseller of Kabul', Seierstad studied life in Afghanistan before and after the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001. Now twenty years later, the Taliban is back in power, and Seierstad returns with 'The Afghans', a book to help us understand Afghanistan's past, present and future, told through the lives of three unforgettable people: - Jamila, Bashir and Ariana - as well their families, friends, foes and co-fighters. Jamila is a women's rights...

It's been a while since Jake Adelstein was the only gaijin crime reporter for the Yomiuri Shimbun. The global economy is in shambles, Jake is off the police beat but still chain-smoking clove cigarettes, and Tadamasa Goto, the most powerful boss in the Japanese organised-crime world, has been banished from the yakuza, giving Adelstein one less enemy to worry about - for the time being. Adelstein has a new gig these days: due-diligence work, or using...

In March 2022, Michael Palin travelled the length of the River Tigris through Iraq to get a sense of what life is like in a region of the world that once formed the cradle of civilisation, but that in recent times has witnessed turmoil and appalling bloodshed. It was a journey of sharp, often brutal contrasts. At one moment he would be exploring the old streets of Baghdad or the ancient ruins of Babylon. At the next he would be visiting the war-torn...

The definitive account of the Tokyo war crimes trials of 1946-8, WWII and the beginning of the end of the European empires in Asia and the impact the settlement has had on post-war China and Japan, the wider history of East and South Asia - and of the world - to this day.