In Lowell Thomas, Jr.'s 1959 book The Silent War in Tibet, Tibet’s turbulent history in the 1950s is told with the pressing excitement of a narrator who wants readers to understand the confluence of local, regional, and global forces at work in the People Republic of China's occupation and annexation of Tibet.
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Reading “The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent since Independence” by Martin Meredith
Martin Meredith's The Fate of Africa: A History of the Continent since Independence is an unparalleled resource for introducing the major issues, figures, and periods of post-independence African history, but is severely marred by its failure to engage the devastating legacies of colonialism on the continent.
Sean Guynes 