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Shogun
- The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
- By: A.L. Sadler, Stephen Turnbull - foreword, Alexander Bennett - foreword
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
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For 700 years, Japan was ruled by military commanders who waged war against one another incessantly. Shogun tells the fascinating story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who finally unified and brought lasting peace to the nation. He established a new central government which enabled his descendants to rule Japan for the next 260 years—a period in which Japanese culture as we know it today flourished.
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Not as good as I expected
- By Marc Fearby on 15-03-2024
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Shogun
- The Life and Times of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Japan's Greatest Ruler
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-11-2023
- Language: English
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The Japanese
- A History in Twenty Lives
- By: Christopher Harding
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
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Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of 20 remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take the listener from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life of the current empress, Masako. We encounter shamans and warlords, poets and revolutionaries, scientists, artists and adventurers - each offering insights of their own into this extraordinary place.
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The Japanese
- A History in Twenty Lives
- Narrated by: Christopher Harding
- Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 05-11-2020
- Language: English
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China Marine
- An Infantryman's Life After World War II
- By: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine in the First Division, traces his company's movements and charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific. He reflects on his duty in the ancient city of Peiping (now Beijing) and recounts the difficulty of returning to his hometown of Mobile, Alabama, and resuming civilian life haunted by the shadows of close combat.
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China Marine
- An Infantryman's Life After World War II
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 20-07-2017
- Language: English
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Miyamoto Musashi
- The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Most Legendary Samurai
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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Little may have been known about Musashi at the time, but centuries later, he is the most infamous and renowned warrior in Japanese history. As a veteran of the Battle of Sekigahara (1600), Naiwa (1615), and the Shimabara Rebellion in Hizen (1637-1638), Musashi was a seasoned battlefield soldier, who went undefeated in over 60 duels, and authored an essential book on strategy Go Rin No Sho (The Book of Five Rings).
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Miyamoto Musashi
- The Life and Legacy of Japan’s Most Legendary Samurai
- Narrated by: Jim Johnston
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- By: Katherine Boo
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
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Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption.
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Fascinating!
- By Benjamin on 22-07-2017
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Behind the Beautiful Forevers
- Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity
- Narrated by: Sunil Malhotra
- Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2013
- Language: English
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The Wisdom of Tea
- Life Lessons from the Japanese Tea Ceremony
- By: Noriko Morishita
- Narrated by: Minhee Yeo
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
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For more than 25 years Noriko Morishita has studied and practised the intricate rules of the famous Japanese Tea Ceremony, trying to master its complexities in order to find inner peace. In this vivid account of her experience of the universal trials and triumphs of adulthood, Morishita connects the core tenets of this ancient art with leading a fulfilling life, showing how we too may use mindfulness to achieve happiness.
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Absolutely LOVED it.
- By Hayley on 17-03-2023
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The Wisdom of Tea
- Life Lessons from the Japanese Tea Ceremony
- Narrated by: Minhee Yeo
- Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 18-12-2020
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- By: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of Northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,000 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
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Entering an Unknown Reality
- By Pukumahi on 13-05-2023
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2017
- Language: English
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Red Memory
- The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- By: Tania Branigan
- Narrated by: Tania Branigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
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More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence.
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A Good Listen
- By Jennifer Wilkinson on 02-11-2024
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Red Memory
- The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution
- Narrated by: Tania Branigan
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 31-01-2023
- Language: English
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- By: Declan Walsh
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
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Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals.
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Factually incorrect account of events
- By Usama on 20-07-2023
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- Narrated by: Roger Clark
- Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 16-02-2021
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
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Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new republican China, a hero of the Second World War, and a faithful ally of the United States. Simultaneously a Christian and a Confucian, Chiang dreamed of universal equality yet was a perfidious and cunning dictator responsible for the deaths of over 1.5 million innocent people. This critical biography is based on Chiang Kai-shek's unpublished diaries, his extensive personal files from the Russian archives, and the Russian files of his relatives, associates, and foes.
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 01-08-2023
- Language: English
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- By: Andrei Lankov
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state.
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-05-2014
- Language: English
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Bugles and a Tiger
- My Life in the Gurkhas
- By: John Masters
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
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John Masters was a soldier before he became a best-selling novelist. He went to Sandhurst in 1933 at the age of 18 and was commissioned into the Fourth Gurkha Rifles in time to take part in some of the last campaigns on the turbulent North-West Frontier of India. John Masters joined a Gurhka regiment on receiving his commission, and his depiction of garrison life and campaigning on the North-West Frontier has never been surpassed. Bugles and a Tiger is a matchless evocation of the British Army in India on the eve of the Second World War.
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Bugles and a Tiger
- My Life in the Gurkhas
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 03-11-2022
- Language: English
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Indian Sun
- The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
- By: Oliver Craske
- Narrated by: Sohm Kapila
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
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The definitive biography of Ravi Shankar, one of the most influential musicians and composers of the 20th century, told with the cooperation of his estate, family, and friends.
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Indian Sun
- The Life and Music of Ravi Shankar
- Narrated by: Sohm Kapila
- Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 07-04-2020
- Language: English
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The Banished Immortal
- A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
- By: Ha Jin
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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In his own time (701-762), Li Bai's poems - shaped by Daoist thought and characterized by their passion, romance, and lust for life - were never given their proper due by the official literary gatekeepers. Nonetheless, his lines rang out on the lips of court entertainers, tavern singers, soldiers, and writers throughout the Tang dynasty. The Banished Immortal is an extraordinary portrait of a poet who both transcended his time and was shaped by it and whose ability to live, love, and mourn without reservation produced some of the most enduring verses.
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Entrancing
- By Joe Blow on 23-01-2023
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The Banished Immortal
- A Life of Li Bai (Li Po)
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 15-01-2019
- Language: English
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Ghost Flames
- Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
- By: Charles J. Hanley
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
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The war that broke out in Korea on a Sunday morning 70 years ago has come to be recognized as a critical turning point in modern history - as the first great clash of arms of the Cold War, the last conflict between superpowers, and the root of a nuclear crisis that grips the world to this day. In this vivid, emotionally compelling, and highly original account, Charles J. Hanley tells the story of the Korean War through the eyes of 20 individuals who lived through it.
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Ghost Flames
- Life and Death in a Hidden War, Korea 1950-1953
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 25-08-2020
- Language: English
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Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret
- American War Heroes
- By: Stephen L. Moore
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
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Robert Howard grew up in poverty in a small town in Alabama, with a strong sense of faith and determination. When he enlisted in the army at age seventeen, his Granny Callie’s words echoed in his head, and he pledged to follow them to the bitter end. In the most dire of combat experiences, Howard ran directly toward his opponents, sacrificing his body to protect others and to complete the mission above all else. Time and time again, he survived battles that should have claimed his life, suffering countless bullets, a spinal injury, and shrapnel and blast wounds.
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Beyond the Call of Duty: The Life of Colonel Robert Howard, America's Most Decorated Green Beret
- American War Heroes
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Series: American War Heroes
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 03-12-2024
- Language: English
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Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End
- One Hour History: Military Generals, Book 3
- By: Henry Freeman
- Narrated by: Richard Peterson
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
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Genghis Khan was the most unlikely of conquerors. An orphan of the Mongolian Steppes, his rise went all but unnoticed by all the great powers around him. His people had been divided and discounted by the Chinese dynasties to his south and completely dismissed by the encroaching Islamic empires to his west. Known as little more than bandits and nomads, Genghis Khan and his Mongolian horde would shake kings and emperors to their very core as they descended like locusts upon all four corners of the known world.
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Genghis Khan: A Life from Beginning to End
- One Hour History: Military Generals, Book 3
- Narrated by: Richard Peterson
- Series: One Hour History Military Generals
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 08-11-2017
- Language: English
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The Pillow Book
- By: Sei Shōnagon
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon is a fascinating, detailed account of Japanese court life in the closing years of the 10th century. Written by a lady of the court at the height of Heian culture, this book enthrals with its lively gossip, witty observations and subtle impressions. Lady Shōnagon was an erstwhile rival of Lady Murasaki, whose novel, The Tale of Genji, fictionalized the elite world Lady Shōnagon so eloquently relates.
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A superb time capsule
- By L. White on 23-12-2023
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The Pillow Book
- Narrated by: Georgina Sutton
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 19-03-2022
- Language: English
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Ask a North Korean
- Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
- By: Daniel Tudor, Andrei Lankov - foreword
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the "Hermit Kingdom." This book sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what you may think.
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Ask a North Korean
- Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 20-03-2018
- Language: English
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- By: Martha Sherrill
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
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In the snow country of Japan during World War II, we meet Morie Sawataishi, a fierce individualist who has chosen to break the law by keeping an Akita dog hidden in a shed on his property. By the time of the Japanese surrender in 1945, there are only sixteen Akitas left in the country. The survival of the breed becomes Morie's passion and life. Devoted to the dogs, Morie is forever changed.
In beautiful prose that is a joy to read, Sherrill opens up the world of the Dog Man and his wife, providing a profound look at what it is to be an individualist in a culture that reveres conformity, and what it means to live.
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 23-05-2008
- Language: English
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