Dalam buku ini, Pak Mayjen. (Purn) Samsudin secara jeli dan cerdas membedah leadership para pimpinan PKI yang menjadi salah satu penyebab kegagalan gerakan pemberontakan tersebut. Analisisnya mengatakan bahwa kegagalan pemberontakan itu bermuara dari kepemimpinan top leader PKI, DN Ardit, yang dianggapnya tidak mampu dan salah mengambil putusan pada saat-saat kritis pelaksanaan kudeta, dengan k…
Driving a very old jeep, George McT. Kahin crossed the status quo line separating the Dutch and the Republican forces. He succeeded. But how could he face the angry, suspicious civilians and armed forces who believed that he was a Dutch intruder? A very helpful officer, who believed that he was just a graduate student trying to gather material for dissertation on Indonesian Revolution, advised …
A biography of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, one of the world’s most renowned freedom fighters and advocates of non-violence, and the figurehead for Burma’s struggle for democracy. Recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, she has dedicated her life to the liberation of her country.
Peristiwa yang terjadi hari ini, tidak berdiri sendiri. Namun, punya kaitan dengan masa lalu dan ada tali-temali- nya dengan masa depan. Dalam konteks inilah, hiruk-pikuk- nya peristiwa politik tahun 1993 yang melanda Indonesia dapat ditempatkan. Sebut misalnya, kemunculan Megawati sebagai figur menguatnya "arus bawah", tampilnya Harmoko sebagai orang sipil pertama yang jadi Ketua Gol- kar, ata…
Emergency and confrontation is the first sustained and scholarly account of Australia's, waged againts the armed forces of the Malayan communist party between 1948 and 1960, and in confrontation, an undeclared war initiated by Indonesia to destabilise the emergent federation of Malaysia and fought largely along the common border in the northern part of Borneo between 1962 and 1966.
Without neglecting political history, it contains more social history than any other book of similar size. It treats of popular sports and pastimes, such as shooting, fishing, horse racing, and sail- ing: eating and drinking customs; devel- opments in fine arts, music, and medicine; deals with the revolution in sexual mores, and pays particular attention to the American Indian. The parallel his…
This third volume of a unique reference provides the only detailed survey of Australia's relations with the countries of Asia. Updated annually, it provides expert coverage of the special relationship with each Asian country through a mix of facts, figures and empirical analysis.
I was tired after six and one-half tumultuous years, and I felt that memoirs couldeasily be self-serving. Turn over the documents to the historians, I thought. Soon my energy returned and, as I looked into my record, I felt a renewed sense of excitement about what had happaned on my watch, and a desire to set out the flow of events as they appeared from my own point of view.
This book tells of the events and personalities that shaped Cambodian history during the thirteen-year period between the overthrow of the Khmer Rouge regime in 1979 and the signing of the 1991 peace accords that resulted in U.N.-administered elections. The first study of this turbulent era, it offers a nuanced understanding of complex questions concerning human rights, economic reconstruction,…
In Between Hope and History, President Bill Clinton offers the American people his vision for the country as we enter the twenty-first century. The President sees the nation poised on the edge of what he calls "the age of possibility. With elo quence and clarity, he details the broad values of opportunity, responsibility, and community that he regards as critical to helping America meet our cha…