World history is littered with tales of great conquests and catastrophic defeats, of the rise and fall of empires, armies and global corporate entities. Does man ever learn the lessons that history teaches him and is he doomed to continue making the same mistakes until at best, the lessons are learnt or at worst, he destroys his own means of survival?

This is a compelling book of many levels and is the result of one mans experiences garnered over nearly half a century living and working in the many different countries of the Far East, which will appeal equally to historians, travellers,...