Category: Asian History

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Reference map of SE Asia in orange and blue

U.S. Bases in Thailand During the Vietnam War and Agent Orange

August 12, 2019

Over the years of this writer’s service at the Library of Congress, veterans and their families have sent me questions about maps that show the locations of U.S. forces in Thailand during the Vietnam War. Chief among the reasons that they have sought this information is because some American personnel were exposed to Agent Orange …

Posted in: Asian History, Military History

The Great Game and the Boundaries of Afghanistan

July 11, 2019

Posted by: Cynthia Smith

Letts’s bird’s eye view of the approaches to India by W.H. Payne was published in London during the early 1900s. Letts, Son & Co. sold stationary, maps and diaries, among them is this striking panoramic view that depicts Russian territory in the north marked with a red dotted line along the Amu Darya River. Mountain ranges, the …

Posted in: Asian History, Borders

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