Boy Hero is the riveting tale of Mr. Hai Lee, a Taiwan mango grower who continues to be traumatized by experiences he had as a ten-year-old boy during World War II. A terrible secret from the war has been tormenting him even more since his wife recently died. She was the only one he trusted with the secret. Adding more difficulties to his life, Hai Lee's grandson Curtis, an orphan and a delinquent, arrives to live with him with psychological troubles of his own. Written in a lean and poetic style, Boy Hero also celebrates the love of the land and the healing powers of nature as this unique...

In 1914 almost one quarter of the earth's surface was British. When the empire and its allies went to war in 1914 against the Central Powers, history's first global conflict was inevitable.

It is the social and cultural reactions to that war and within those distant, often overlooked, societies which is the focus of this volume. From Singapore to Australia, Cyprus to Ireland, India to Iraq and around the rest of the British imperial world, further complexities and interlocking themes are addressed, offering new perspectives on imperial and colonial history and theory, as well as...