Reviews by R. Arant of Lanesville, Indiana USA

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Air Force officer, former NGO staffer in Thailand and translator for the United Nations in Cambodia, with interests in the Thai, Khmer and Lao languages.

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Arabia

Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918

Travels in Arabia Deserta: Selected Passages

The Battle of Algiers [DVD]

Arabian Sands: Revised Edition [Wilfred Thesiger]

Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

Cambodia & Vicinity

Cambodia Communism and the Vietnamese Model. Volume 1: Imitation and Independence, 1930-1975

China, Cambodia, Vietnam Triangle

Rice People [DVD]

521 The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine [DVD]

Why Did They Kill?: Cambodia in the Shadow of Genocide

A Very Short War: The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang

Sideshow, Revised Edition: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia

The Living Mekong [Photographs]

The Flower of Isan: Songs and Music from Northeast Thailand

Angkor: Celestial Temples of the Khmer [Photographs]

The Gate [Francois Bizot]

Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation Building

First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

Inherited Risk: Erol Flynn and Sean Flynn in Hollywood and Vietnam

My Wicked Wicked Ways [Erol & Sean Flynn, Latter Captured in Cambodia]

Cambodia 1975-1982

Anghor: The Hidden Glories [Photographs]

The Killing Fields [VHS]

The Eagle Mutiny

Propaganda, Politics, and Violence in Cambodia: Democratic Transition Under United Nations Peace-Keeping

Four Days of Mayaguez

Beyond the Killing Fields [Photographs]

Beyond the Horizon: Five Years with the Khmer Rouge

A History of Cambodia 3E

The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, 1975-1980

Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors

My Village at Sunset [VHS]

When Borken Glass Floats: Growing Up Under the Khmer Rouge

Last Days of Colonel Savath [VHS]

Cambodia: Report from a Stricken Land

When the War Was Over: Cambodia and The Khmer Rouge Revolution

Forty Days with the Enemy

Voices from S-21: Terror and History in Pol Pot's Secret Prison

A Cambodian Prison Portrait, One Year in the Khmer Rouge's S-21

Forces

The Tank Killers: A History of America's World War II Tank Destroyer Force

Patton's Panthers: The African-American 761st Tank Battalion In World War II

Purple Sun: An epic tale of war and redemption

An Army at Dawn: The War in Africa, 1942-1943, Volume One of the Liberation Trilogy

Great Men Lawrence of Arabia

Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia

A Prince of Our Disorder: The Life of T. E. Lawrence

The Diary Kept by T. E. Lawrence While Travelling in Arabia During 1911 (Folios Archive Library)

Lawrence of Arabia [DVD]

Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

Great Men Other

Orientations [Ronald Storrs, Military Governor of Jerusalem]

Safety Last [Col W. F. Stirling]

Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer

Khartoum Journal

The Life of My Choice [Wilfred Thesiger]

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant

Reaching for Glory: Lyndon Johnson's Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965 [Six CD Audio]

Bogart

Flags of Our Fathers

Intelligence and Counterintelligence

The Fight for the High Ground: The U.S. Army and Interrogation During Operation Iraqi Freedom, May 2003 – April 2004

Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantánamo

A Spy's Journey: A CIA Memoir

The Interrogators: Inside the Secret War Against al Qaeda

Iraq

Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq

Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco

In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat

Iraq Road Map by ITMB

Islam

The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror

Khartoum {DVD]

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil, and Fundamentalism in Central Asia

Jihad: the Rise of Militan Islam in Central Asia

Languages

Mastering Arabic Script: A Guide to Handwriting

Arabic Practical Dictionary: Arabic-English English-Arabic

A BASIC COURSE IN IRAQI ARABIC with MP3 Audio Files

Iraq Phrasebook: The Complete Language Guide for Contemporary Iraq

English-Arabic Arabic-English Dictionary & Phasebook

Rosetta Stone Arabic Level 1 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version]

Basic Stone: Arabic Explorer

The Oxford English-Arabic Dictionary of Current Usage

Fun with Arabic: Learn Arabic the Fun and Easy Way

English-Spoken Khmer Dictionary

The Arabic Alphabet: How to Read & Write It

Alif Baa: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds

Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader with Drills and Glossary

Lao-English Dictionary

Cambodian Literary  Readers and Glossary

English-Khmer Dictionary

Thai Basic Course Level Two w/17 Cassettes

Thai System of Writing

Thai-English Student's Dictionary

Lao Basic Course

The Cambodian Alphabet: How to Write the Khmer Language

Cambodian System of Writing and Beginning Reader

Colloquial CambodianKhmer Basic Course Vol 2 FSI (29 audiocassettes & text)

Laos

Tragedy in Paradise: A Country Doctor at War in Laos

At War in the Shadow of Vietnam

Miscellaneous

The Good Soldier Svejk: and His Fortunes in the World War

The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States

The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, An Inside Account

Page After Page [Memoires from Southeast Asia]

Viet-Nam

Leave No Man Behind: Bill Bell and the Search for American POW/MIAs from the Vietnam War

Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers

In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam

We Were Soldiers [VHS]

The Palace File

The Dust of Life: America's Children Abandoned in Vietnam

Another Vietnam: Pictures of the War from the Other Side

Lost Years: My 1,632 Days in Vietnames Reeducation Camps

Code-Name Bright Light: The Untold Story of U.S. POW Rescue Efforts During the Vietnam War

Secret Army, Secret War: Washington's Tragic Spy Operation in North Vietnam

The Last Battle: The Mayaguez Incident and the End of the Vietnam War

Glory Denied: The Saga of Jim Thompson, America's Longest Held Prisoner of War

Two of the missing: A reminiscence of some friends in the war

Derailed in Unclo Ho's Victory Garden

In the Jaws of History

Shadows and Wind: A View of Modern Vietnam

River of Time: A Memoir of Vietnam

Following Ho Chi Minh: The Memoirs of a North Vietnamese Colonel

Requiem: By the Photographers Who Died in Vietnam and Indochina

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