Books most popular in the United States●Asia

Check out the latest list of books that people in the United States are enjoying the most right now. The list is ordered by popularity and the genre of the list is History > Asia.

1. Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa

Release date: 2019-01-15 $1.99
Comments

1. Phenomenal - This is THE best book I’ve ever read. It is a true masterpiece. I highly recommend it. It’s a very long book, but the way it is written made me want to savor every chapter. I could see the entire story in my mind and it was like watching an amazing movie based on a true story and real people. I’ve never been so immersed in a story and so touched by its characters. This book has something for every reader. Philosophy, action, drama, romance, and history.
2020-07-22
2. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World - Jack Weatherford

Release date: 2004-03-16 $13.99
Comments

1. Concise but thorough and very interesting - Articulate with keen observations littered throughout - very accessible and not academic and made to be both educational and entertaining - not in the least bit dry. Truly is comprehensive in its scope and evaluations on both historic and modern society and what we have to thank the mongols for - I strongly encourage you to read this book
2021-04-25

2. A new look at an old story - “Fate did not hand Chinnguis Khan [aka Gengis Khan]his destiny. He made it himself. It seemed highly unlikely that he would have ever had enough horses to create a Spirit Banner, much less that he would follow it all over the world.” This fascinating overview of the life and times of Gengis Khan is well worth the time to track down and read. Jack Weatherford has presented Khan as a unifier of the scattered Mongols as well as a shaper of his own future. Based upon the divergence of friendship and enmity, Khan developed what we now see as modern warfare techniques and the skelton of a government not see previously . Weatherford contends Gengis Khan May have changed the world, but did not let the world change him, returning to his roots for rest, reflection and recharging. With each chapter, the author brings us deeper into the life of a man who changed the world to save others from being abused as he was. In this way, he helped to change the aspects and safety of his people far beyond his lifetime. This is a book to read and return to. Highly recommended / [disclaimer: I read this library ebook after hearing an author I follow talk about it. I have chosen to read and review it, and I hope someday to own a copy]
2019-03-15

3. Names Mispronounced In Audio Version - I agree it’s a well written book and well researched. Unfortunately, after speaking to a native Mongolian, I learned the company that created the audio version mispronounce most, if not all, of the names. I would have been easy to find a Mongolian to coach the narrator on the proper pronuciations of the people and places so that the wrong sound is not etched into the listener's memory.
2015-07-13
3. The Way of the Samurai - Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo & Inazo Nitobe. The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: Book of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan

Release date: 2013-08-28 $2.99
4. The Last Kings of Shanghai - Jonathan Kaufman. The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

Release date: 2020-06-02 $12.99
5. Vietnam - Max Hastings. An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

Release date: 2018-10-16 Genre:History $14.99
Comments

1. History according to Military Industrial complex - Another biased and mostly pro-Western narratives. Yes, there are atrocities & sufferings on all sides. But the big question, why did US went there in first place to prop up faltering French occupation, instead of supporting independence of Vietnam? This is not history, this is a perversion of history to absolve US military industrial complex.
2023-02-02
6. The Rape Of Nanking - Iris Chang. The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II

Release date: 2014-03-11 $14.99
Comments

1. We Are A Sick Bunch - In December , the Japanese army swept into Nanjing. Within weeks, (hundreds of?) thousands of Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered. As a history teacher who is half Japanese and living in China, I felt it was essential to better educate myself on this brutal massacre. The Rape of Nanking is at times a very gruesome read, and the pictures are absolutely shocking, but it's an account that is of fundamental importance. Unfortunately, many historians have found numerous mistakes in Iris Chang's book. Although some of those mistakes have been corrected in the updated edition, the book has still been a source of controversy. Despite that, I have been made aware of a tragic event that I before knew very little about. Upon completion of the book, my wife and I visited the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall where a bronze statue stands in Iris Chang's honor. She passed away in .
2017-12-25
7. Whispers in the Tall Grass - Nick Brokhausen. Back Behind Enemy Lines with Macv–Sog

Release date: 2019-10-19 Genre:History $2.99
Comments

1. One of the very best - If you read any book about the Vietnam War read this of “We Few” both by Brokhausen. These Special Forces recon units within MACSOG were the most decorated and their units had the highest casualty rate, over %. But apart from the combat, there is the futility of the US decision to turn the war over to the South Vietnamese, basically abandoning the country to the communists after losing so much. Prescient of the subsequent wars where the US fights until the liberal media decides its time to quit, then we leave the Iraqis or Afghans to reap the whirlwind, gaining only dead and damaged heroes as reminders of our country’s lack of backbone! Our enemies see this weakening, as they grow stronger, so a time of reckoning is coming and one day we will have to fight for survival.
2023-01-11
8. 140 Days to Hiroshima - David Dean Barrett. The Story of Japan's Last Chance to Avert Armageddon

Release date: 2020-04-07 $11.99
Comments

1. Excellent - Well written account covers what the Japanese government was thinking and doing, what what the U.S. government and military was doing during the days. Also details the long list of atrocities perpetrated by the Japanese military. The author provides a thorough debunking of many of the accusations that try to make the case dropping the bomb was not needed to get the Japanese to surrender.
2022-06-17
9. Last Boat Out of Shanghai - Helen Zia. The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

Release date: 2019-01-22 $11.99
10. Formosa Betrayed - George H. Kerr

Release date: 2017-05-24 $5.99
11. Never Turn Back - Julian Gewirtz. China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s

Release date: 2022-10-18 $32.99
12. The Rising Sun - John Toland. The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945

Release date: 1970-10-12 Genre:History $13.99
13. Daughters of the Samurai: A Journey from East to West and Back - Janice P. Nimura

Release date: 2015-05-04 $12.99
Comments

1. Daughters of the Samuri - My earliest memories are about my families travel by rail and ship from Ohio to Japan. Our home was filled with Japanese dolls, flower arrangements, furniture and more. This book immediately grabbed my attention and held it from cover to cover. Every woman, regardless of Eastern or Western orientation should read this book. It is inspiring.
2017-12-30
14. Holding onto animals while releasing the Lady Kieu (Part 2) - richard butow

Release date: 2023-03-09 $12.99
15. Special Men - Dennis Foley. A LRP's Recollections

Release date: 2022-06-14 Genre:History $2.99
16. The Chinese in America - Iris Chang. A Narrative History

Release date: 2003-04-28 Genre:History $14.99
Comments

1. Something missing - This articulate and thoughtful book is marred in this edition only by the omission of the photographs found in the hardcover print edition. The same omission in The Rape of Nanking leaves the reader with an incomplete experience in reading these fine works. Come on, Apple. Many of your other books have the photos and text. These two books deserve to be presented in their entirety.
2017-04-12

2. An Important Work in American History - Iris Chang's 'The History of Chinese in America' is an important work and should be required reading for any modern American history class. It reads with a smooth flow and covers great range of contributions and triumphs, as well as too many tragedies to speak of. It is just as much about the powerful taking advantage of the less powerful, in general, as it is about the plight of various generations and groups of emigres. Even though the author reminds the reader that the conditions most left were far far worse than their plight in America, it is still an ugly realization for the reader that the ideal of America isn't a given at all for the Chinese immigrant, and frankly most groups of immigrants in general. It's a great read, and fills gaps in knowledge formed by the little coverage Asia and Asian Americans received in history classes over the years. Read it. You'll be happy you did.
2011-12-03
17. Bach Nhat Huyen Tieu - RINI SHAJI

Release date: 2023-03-08 $16.99
18. Musashi - Eiji Yoshikawa

Release date: 2017-08-30 $1.99
19. Implacable Foes - Waldo Heinrichs & Marc Gallicchio. War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

Release date: 2017-05-01 Genre:History $16.99
20. Cambodia's Curse - Joel Brinkley. The Modern History of a Troubled Land

Release date: 2011-04-12 $2.99
21. 紅太陽是怎樣升起的 - 高華. 延安整風運動的來龍去脈

Release date: 2000-02-01 $6.99
22. The Sextants of Beijing: Global Currents in Chinese History - Joanna Waley-Cohen

Release date: 2000-04-17 $17.99
23. China After Mao - Frank Dikötter. The Rise of a Superpower

Release date: 2022-11-15 $20.99
24. History of the Philippines - Luis H. Francia. From Indios Bravos to Filipinos

Release date: 2013-09-18 $11.99
25. Kieu Kieu Vo Song (Part 4) - Laura Lloyd

Release date: 2023-03-04 $24.99
26. The Confucian-Legalist State - Dingxin Zhao. A New Theory of Chinese History

Release date: 2015-09-22 $48.99
27. Liberty or Death - Patrick French. India's Journey to Independence and Division

Release date: 2016-06-21 $12.99
28. SHANHAI FLOURISHES - Eric Adams

Release date: 2023-03-20 $12.99
29. The Story of Life - Jacquelin Mazenko

Release date: 2023-03-10 $14.99
30. My husband has vegetative disease - Michele Hakun

Release date: 2023-03-02 $9.99
31. Can't Wan Wan (Absolutely Not) - Catherine Aulenbach

Release date: 2023-03-01 $14.99
32. Keeping the Jewel in the Crown - Walter Reid. The British Betrayl of India

Release date: 2016-05-19 $1.99
33. The Origins of the Modern World - Robert B. Marks. A Global and Environmental Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century

Release date: 2019-07-05 Genre:History $35.99
34. The First Emperor - Sima Qian, Raymond Dawson & K. E. Brashier. Selections from the Historical Records

Release date: 2007-07-12 $9.99
35. Blood Letters - Lian Xi. The Untold Story of Lin Zhao, a Martyr in Mao's China

Release date: 2018-03-20 $19.99
36. Defining a Nation - Ainslie T. Embree & Mark C Carnes. India on the Eve of Independence, 1945

Release date: 2022-07-01 $19.99
37. Nixon and Mao - Margaret MacMillan. The Week That Changed the World

Release date: 2007-02-13 $15.99
38. In the Shadow of Angkor - Unknown Temples of Ancient Cambodia - George Groslier, Pedro Rodriguez & Kent Davis

Release date: 2021-07-04 $9.99
39. Superpower Interrupted - Michael Schuman. The Chinese History of the World

Release date: 2020-06-09 $12.99
40. Thai Stick - Peter Maguire & Mike Ritter. Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade

Release date: 2013-11-12 $11.99
41. God's Chinese Son: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Hong Xiuquan - Jonathan D. Spence

Release date: 1996-12-17 $14.99
42. A Brief History Of Bali - Willard A. Hanna. Piracy, Slavery, Opium and Guns: The Story of a Pacific Paradise

Release date: 2016-10-11 $15.99
43. TANG CHAU - Gary Miller

Release date: 2023-03-14 $12.99
44. Younghusband - Patrick French. The Last Great Imperial Adventurer

Release date: 2016-06-21 $4.99
45. U.S.S. Seawolf: Submarine Raider of the Pacific - Gerold Frank, James D. Horan & J. M. Eckberg

Release date: 2017-02-20 $0.99
46. North Korea - Paul Moorcraft. Warring with the World

Release date: 2020-04-06 $11.99
47. Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden: Two Sisters Separated by China's Civil War - Zhuqing Li

Release date: 2022-06-21 $14.99
48. Last Stand at Khe Sanh - Gregg Jones. The U.S. Marines' Finest Hour in Vietnam

Release date: 2014-04-22 Genre:History $2.99
49. A Brief History of Japan - Jonathan Clements. Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun

Release date: 2017-08-01 $15.99
50. The Fall of Japan - William J. Craig. The Final Weeks of World War II in the Pacific

Release date: 2015-09-29 Genre:History $11.99