Marshall Cavendish International: 630 books
Operation Matador
World War II—Britain’s Attempt to Foil the Japanese Invasion of Malaya and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2010
When Singapore fell to the Japanese in February 1942, Churchill called it the “largest capitulation in British history.” Till today, the myth persists that this was due to the British forces’ being caught off-guard, with their guns facing the wrong direction—towards the sea. This book offers...
CultureShock! Venezuela
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Lovers of Barbecues, music and baseball can find themselves right at home at Venezuela. CultureShock! Venezuela shows the traveller or armchair-traveller how to get there, what to do there, and how to mingle with the people. Discover the reason behind why the locals have such a strong pride in their...
Giants of Asia: Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew (2nd Edition)
Citizen Singapore: How to Build a Nation (WITH NEW PREFACE AND AFTERWORD)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Political genius is never without controversy, or without mystery. This is what makes it so interesting and so rare. Is Lee Kuan Yew the feral, authoritarian figure that Western critics claim? Or a stoic pioneer in new approaches to developing a nation—uncorrupt, modern, almost scientific? American...
by Alex Josey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Lee Kuan Yew: The Critical Years (197178) is a facsimile edition of Alex Joseys second masterful account of Singapores formidable prime minister, first published in 1980 and simply titled Lee Kuan Yew Vol 2. In this volume, Josey tells the continuing story of Singapores remarkable development from the...
Singapore at War
Secrets from the Fall, Liberation and the Aftermath of WWII
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This volume brings together for the first time three of Romen Bose’s major historical works Secrets of the Battlebox, The End of the War, and Kranji in a panoramic account of Singapore’s experience in WWII. Sealed off and forgotten until the late 1990s, the Battlebox beneath Fort Canning served...
Between 2 Oceans (2nd Edn)
A Military History of Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Many books have been written about Singapore’s much vaunted position as a crucial maritime centre along the East-West trading route, but one aspect of its history—the military perspective—has, for the most part, escaped serious scholarly attention. Between Two Oceans plugs this historical gap....
Giants of Asia: Conversations with Thaksin
From Exile to Deliverance: Thailand’s Populist Tycoon Tells His Story
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Going home is an iconic theme of literature and music that touches everyone’s heart. Bur rarely has that journey looked more like an impossible dream than for Thaksin Shinawatra, the much loved and much hated former prime minister of Thailand. Expelled from the former Siam by a military coup in...
Bizarre Thailand
Tales of Crime, Sex and Black Magic
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2010
Bizarre Thailand takes readers off the well-rutted road of tourist hotspots into the darkest and sexiest hinterlands. Welcome to a twilight zone where travellers become soldiers and cowboys, a black magician courts politicians and film stars, sacred tortoises mate on the streets of a small town, and...
Tsunami Alert
Beating Asia’s Next Big One
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
After the 2004 Asian Tsunami wiped out whole communities on the Indian Ocean, Indonesia’s West Sumatra province learnt a startling reality—they were next. A loosely allied bunch of scientists, students and ordinary citizens struggle to make sense of this suddenly precarious location, centering on...
CultureShock! Russia
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
CultureShock! Russia is the all-essential guide to help you understand and integrate into the largest country in the world. Discover how Russia’s political and cultural histories and other influences have shaped the country and its people. Learn about the values, attitudes and lifestyle of the Russians...
Crossroads (2nd Edn)
A Popular History of Malaysia and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
In this fully updated, second edition of Crossroads, Jim Baker adds two new chapters that bring Malaysia and Singapore into the middle of the first decade of the 21st century. The original text (which traces the complex currents of history and politics of Malaysia and Singapore—neighbours with a...
CultureShock! Cambodia
A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
CultureShock! Cambodia provides all the essential information one needs to make settling into this once war-torn country as painless as possible. Benefit from the practical advice provided including how to find accommodation and employment, which schools to put your children in as well as the documentation...
The Answers: North Korea
How do you solve a problem like North Korea?
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
How do you solve a problem like North Korea? Much has been written about the deaths of North Korea’s first two leaders, Kim Il-Sung and Kim Jong-Il, and the implications for the country and its people, but what about the future? Is the Korean peninsula doomed to an unstable, insecure future, or does...
The Tiger and the Trojan Horse
Flashes of red in early Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
“Some mug had to do it,” said Lee Kuan Yew, explaining what appeared to be an act of pure folly—the decision of a politically puny group of young nationalists to take on the powerful communist movement in a crucial struggle for the strategic gateway to the East—Singapore. In the first phrase,...