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Showing posts with label World War 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label World War 2. Show all posts
Tuesday 22 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part II

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author  Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworth...
Wednesday 16 February 2022

Indie-Spotlight: Selling Books with Asian Main Characters - Part I

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  Indie Spotlight   is a column by WWII historical fiction author Alexa Kang . The column regularly features hot new releases and noteworthy...
Sunday 5 September 2021

The Japanese Home Front 1937 - 1945 by Philipp Jowett & Adam Hook

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As I’ve stated many times, there’s long been a blind spot about the Asian Theater of World War II. You can stack the books written about Naz...
Monday 5 July 2021

The China Mission by Daniel Kurtz-Phelan - Chinese History at a Crossroads

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The question of “Who Lost China to the Communists?” became a political flashpoint in American politics. It gave rise to the McCarthy Era and...
Sunday 6 June 2021

The Girl Who Played Go by Shan Sa

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The Girl Who Played Go is a historical novel by Chinese author Shan Sa, originally published in French, translated into English. With that ...
Sunday 4 April 2021

Message to Adolf - Osamu Tezuka's Underrated Manga

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Between 1983 – 1985, the celebrated artist Osamu Tezuka created one of his most underpraised manga. Adolf , also known as Message to Adolf ...
Wednesday 18 November 2020

A translated novel: a team effort

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  Nicky Harman reads Zhang Ling’s latest historical novel, A Single Swallow (Amazon Crossing, 2020 .) One of the best-written novels I’ve...
Thursday 6 August 2020

Japan's Asian Allies - A Look at the Collaborationist Regimes of World War II

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Compared to Nazi Germany, the Japanese Empire during World War II receives little to no coverage in Western media. Even more obscure, are ...
Sunday 3 May 2020

Japan's Greatest Victory, Britain's Worst Defeat - A Memoir of the Battle of Singapore

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It’s often said “history is written by the victors,” and this only half true. While the narrative of World War II is definitely constructe...
Thursday 13 February 2020

Japanese Destroyer Captain - A Memoir of The Pacific War

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Japanese Destroyer Captain is the postwar memoir of Tameichi Hara, a Japanese Navy officer who earned the nickname the “Miracle Captain.”...
Monday 2 December 2019

Indie Spotlight: The Scent of Frangipani - Dollarbird's first book launched

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Last month on Indie Spotlight, Phil Tatham, publisher at Monsoon Books, told us about their exciting new hybrid imprint, Dollarbird . This m...
Sunday 29 September 2019

Indie Spotlight - Myanmar - A Daughter's Promise - Ann Bennett

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In my first blog post as Indie Spotlight contributor, I wrote about The Foundling’s Daughter , set partly in India in the days of the B...
Friday 24 May 2019

500 words from Andrew Lam

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500 words from …is an occasional series in which novelists talk about their latest novels. Andrew Lam’s second historical novel, Repentanc...