Chronicles the turbulent history of Cambodia from the era of French colonialism in the first half of the twentieth century to the death of Pol Pot in 1998.

In the months after Appomattox, the South was plunged into a chaos that surpassed even the disorder of the last hard months of the war itself. Peace brought, if

In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year or

Using letters, diaries, and regimental newspapers to take us inside the minds of Civil War soldiers—black and white, Northern and Southern—as they fought an

Winner of the prestigious Pegasus Prize for Literature, "And the War Is Over" is a taut novel set in and around an Indonesian village as news of Japan's surrend