These are books mentioned in my talks on Seabourn Sojourn’s cruise to Thailand and Vietnam.
Fall of Fortress Singapore
Forgotten Armies, Christopher Bayly and Tim Harper
The Honourable Company, John Keay
The Second World War, John Keegan
Decline and Fall of the British Empire, Piers Brendon
The Singapore and Melaka Straits, Peter Borchberg
Singapore: A Biography, Ravinder Frost and Yu_mei Balasingamchow
The Hinge of Fate, Winston Churchill
The Mutiny in Singapore, Sho Kuwajima
The Narrow Road to the Deep North, Richard Flanigan
Embassy to the Eastern Courts
The Empire of Tea, Alan MacFarlane and Iris MacFarlane
When America First Met China, Eric Jay Dolin
A Splendid Exchange, William J. Bernstein
American Lion, Jon Meacham
Sea of Glory, Nathaniel Philbrick
Embassy to the Eastern Courts, Andrew C.A. Jampoler
European Exploration and Mapping South East Asia
The Fourth Part of the World, Toby Lester
Empire of Cotton, Sven Beckert
The Embarrassment of Riches, Simon Schama
Batavia’s Graveyard, Mike Dash
French Indochina and the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Street Without Joy, Bernard B. Fall
Hell in a Very Small Place, Bernard B. Fall
Vietnam: A History, Stanley Karnow
The Angel of Dien Bien Phu, Genevieve Galard
Valley of Death, Ted Morgan
The United States and Vietnam
The Best and the Brightest, David Halberstam
Reporting Vietnam, William M. Hammond
We Were Soldiers Once and Young, Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway
Pentagon Papers, Neil Sheehan et al