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Inside Back Cover We Are Pleased to Welcome Library of American Landscape History is the leading publisher of books that advance the study and practice of American landscape architecture—from gardens and parks to city plans. LALH books educate the public, motivating stewardship of significant places and the environment, and they inspire new designs that connect people with nature. PAGE 138 CHECK OUT FEATURED TITLES FROM NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK PAGE 49 PAGE 60 PAGE 61 PAGE 69 PAGE 84 PAGE 110 PAGE 112 PAGE 121 PAGE 125 3 CHECK OUT FEATURED TITLES FROM NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK PAGE 130 PAGE 158 PAGE 160 PAGE 167 PAGE 181 PAGE 186 PAGE 215 PAGE 222 PAGE 251 4 Biography/History Ayo Gorkhali Destination Peking The True Story of the Gurkhas BY PAUL FRENCH BY TIM I. GURUNG New York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking) “Ayo Gorkhali!”/“The Gurkhas are upon you!” is the battle cry of one returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating of the world’s most famous fighting forces. Yet the Gurkha story is not people—many Americans among them—who visited the city in the only about bravery in combat. It is also a story of tragedy. first half of the 20th century. In WWI alone, 200,000 Gurkhas out of Nepal’s five million people From the ultra-wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton and took up arms for the British cause. A further 250,000 Gurkhas fought her husband the Prince Mdivani, to the poor “American girl” Mona alongside the British in WWII. In their 200-year history, the Gurkhas Monteith, who worked in the city as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis have served in places such as Malaya, Singapore, Borneo, East Timor, Simpson and novelist JP Marquand, who held court on the rooftop of Hong Kong, Cyprus, the Falklands, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Kosovo. the Grand Hôtel de Pékin, to Hollywood screenwriter Harry Hervey, Although the British Empire’s reign in Asia has ended, some 3,500 who sought inspiration walking atop the Tartar Wall; from Edgar Gurkhas are currently serving in the British Army in the UK. and Helen Foster Snow—Peking’s “It” couple of 1935—to Martha Sawyers, who did so much to aid China against Japan in World War II; Written by a Gurkha, this book tells the Gurkhas’ story from the Destination Peking brings a lost pre-communist era back to life. very beginning to the present day. It deals with their history and its ramifications on the nation of Nepal. Born and currently based in London, Paul French lived and worked in China for many years. After a career as a widely published analyst and Tim I. Gurung joined the British Gurkhas at the age of 17, as his commentator on China he is now a full-time author, focusing on China grandfathers and uncles had before him. He served for 13 years and and Asia in the first half of the twentieth century. retired as an army corporal. He then became a businessman in Hong Kong before making a life-changing decision to become a full-time His true crime book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times writer on his 50th birthday. To research this book, he spent the best bestseller, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Mystery Writers’ of part of two years traveling through Nepal, Britain, Myanmar, Malaysia, America Edgar award winner for Best Fact Crime, and a Crime Writers’ and Singapore. Association (UK) Dagger award for nonfiction. Both Midnight in Peking and City of Devils are being adapted for film and television. June 2021 • History/Military June 2021 • Biography & Autobiography/Historical 280 Pages • 30 B/W Photos • 5½ x 8½ 320 Pages • 80 B/W Photos • 5½ x 8½ 978-988-796390-5 • $17.95 • Paper • [Trade] 978-988-796396-7 • $17.95 • Paper • [Trade] BLACKSMITH BOOKS 5 Biography/History Hong Kong Volunteers in Battle Stories from the Royal Hong Kong Police December 1941 Fifty Accounts from Officers of Hong Kong’s Colonial-era BY EVAN STEWART, REVISED BY R.D. TAYLOR Police Force BY THE ROYAL HONG KONG POLICE ASSOCIATION On the same day as the assault on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese army attacked the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Among the colony’s Fighting to survive on a police patrol launch during a typhoon, garrison were regiments from Britain, Canada and India as well as men and investigating a murder by a Vietnamese gangster in a refugee from the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, better known as “The camp. Battling riots during the Cultural Revolution, countering drug Volunteers.” smuggling and pimping by the triads, and dealing with bank robbers When the battle began on December 8, 1941, the HKVDC deployed in a hostage situation. These are just some of the stories told in this a total fighting strength of 1,900 officers and men. These were riveting compilation of personal experiences of former Royal Hong mustered into seven infantry companies, five artillery batteries and a Kong Police officers. single armored car platoon with a full range of support units. In 1997, Hong Kong returned to Chinese sovereignty after 156 years Over the next 17 days, until the surrender on Christmas Day 1941, the of British rule. This collection of no-holds-barred accounts by some men of “The Volunteers” saw action all over Hong Kong. This is the 50 individual police officers, put together by three former colleagues, story of their battle. illustrates the last decades of the colony’s colorful history. This is what life was really like on the front line. Evan George Stewart was born in Bedford, England, in 1892. He was educated in Dublin and at Wellington College. On leaving school Founded in 1938, the Royal Hong Kong Police Association brings he taught at St. Paul’s College in Hong Kong and joined the Hong together former serving police officers. In this book, 50 members of Kong Volunteers before returning to Dublin to read History. Before the association share their real-life accounts of policing the streets, completing his degree he was commissioned into the Middlesex housing estates and harbors of colonial Hong Kong. Regiment and served in France during the First World War. In 1920 he returned to teach at St. Paul’s College. He took over as headmaster in 1930, and remained headmaster, with the break of wartime, until his death. During the Battle for Hong Kong in December 1941 he commanded the Eurasian HKVDC No. 3 (Machine-Gun) Company. After the capture of Wong Nei Chong Gap by the enemy, he organized the escape of the six survivors and, although wounded, found his own way back alone through the enemy lines. His actions resulted in the award of the Distinguished Service Order. Following the war he joined the Hong Kong Regiment, the successor unit to the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps. He led the Regiment’s contingent in Queen Elizabeth’s coronation procession in London in 1953, and was awarded the OBE in 1955. He served as honorary colonel of the Hong Kong Regiment from March 1958 until his death later that year. April 2021 • History/Military/World War II February 2021 • Biography & Autobiography/Law Enforcement 144 Pages • 6 x 8½ 300 Pages • 30 B/W Photos • 5½ x 8½ 978-988-796384-4 • $17.95 • Cloth • [Trade] 978-988-796388-2 • $17.95 • Paper • [Trade] BLACKSMITH BOOKS 6 Biography/History Women, Crime and the Courts Marietta Wetherill Hong Kong 1841-1941 Life with the Navajos in Chaco Canyon BY PATRICIA O’SULLIVAN THIRD EDITION EDITED BY KATHRYN GABRIEL LOVING, Kwan Lai-chun was sick of being made to feel second-class by her INTRODUCTION BY ELIZABETH JAMESON husband’s concubine; sick of her mother-in-law’s endless carping about the money she spent; sick of the whole family really. Late one “Your head is round, not flat like ours,” a Navajo told Marietta Palmer sticky, humid night something snapped in her—and she grabbed the Wetherill. “You will remember and tell our story to the white man.” In meat chopper. Within minutes, three people were dead: the concubine the years after she moved to Chaco Canyon in