Phi Beta Iota: One of our colleagues serving in the wilderness has brought to our attention the reading selections and associated reviews of R. ARANT. 127 as of today, both the choice of books and the integrity inherent in the reviews are for our collective, an inspiration. We urge one and all to appreciate this individual's reviews with a vote.
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.
Reviews of special value to Public Intelligence (below the line)
Arabia
Setting the Desert on Fire: T. E. Lawrence and Britain's Secret War in Arabia, 1916-1918
Travels in Arabia Deserta: Selected Passages
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
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]
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]
Anghor: The Hidden Glories [Photographs]
Beyond the Killing Fields [Photographs]
Beyond the Horizon: Five Years with the Khmer Rouge
The Stones Cry Out: A Cambodian Childhood, 1975-1980
Children of Cambodia's Killing Fields: Memoirs by Survivors
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
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)
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
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]
Intelligence and Counterintelligence
Inside the Wire: A Military Intelligence Soldier's Eyewitness Account of Life at Guantánamo
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
Islam
The Crisis of Islam: Holy War and Unholy Terror
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]
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
Cambodian Literary Readers and Glossary
Thai Basic Course Level Two w/17 Cassettes
Thai-English Student's Dictionary
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 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
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
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
