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The Yakuza
- The History of the Notorious Japanese Crime Organization
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Since the beginning of civilization, crime and injustice has existed. At the same time, gangs in all shapes and sizes have been around, from rebels, dissidents, and rogue soldiers to the average circle of miscreants loitering in alleys and behind convenience stores. In Japan, a gang of a different breed would arise - one underscored by honor, respect, family, and a code of ethics. They are the Yakuza. The Yakuza claim to be the Robin Hoods of the Far East. While they may lean towards the other side of the law, justice is all they truly aim for.
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The Yakuza
- The History of the Notorious Japanese Crime Organization
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
- Release date: 06-03-17
- Language: English
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The Storyteller's Daughter
- By: Saira Shah
- Narrated by: Saira Shah
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
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Born in Britain, Saira Shah was inspired by her father's dazzling stories to rediscover the now lost life their forebears knew for 900 years within sight of orchards, snow-topped mountains, and the minarets of Kabul. This is Saira, part sophisticated and sensitive Western liberal, part fearless (even fierce) life-gulping Afghan, falling in love with her ancestral myth, chasing Afghanistan.
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A personal view of Afghanistan
- By C on 16-07-06
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The Storyteller's Daughter
- Narrated by: Saira Shah
- Length: 3 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-08-05
- Language: English
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Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma: Allies at War, 1943-1944
- American Military Studies Series, Book 3
- By: Jonathan Templin Ritter
- Narrated by: William Dupuy
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma explores the relationship between American General Joseph “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell and British Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten in the China-Burma-India Theater (CBI) and the South East Asia Command (SEAC) between October 1943 and October 1944, within the wider context of Anglo-American relations during World War II. Jonathan Templin Ritter discusses the military, political, and diplomatic aspects of Anglo-American cooperation, the personalities involved, and where British and American policies both converged and diverged over Southeast Asia.
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Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma: Allies at War, 1943-1944
- American Military Studies Series, Book 3
- Narrated by: William Dupuy
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-11-18
- Language: English
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Superpower Interrupted
- The Chinese History of the World
- By: Michael Schuman
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
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This global history as the Chinese would write it gives brilliant and unconventional insights for understanding China's role in the world, especially the drive to "Make China Great Again." In this colorful, informative story filled with fascinating characters, epic battles, influential thinkers, and decisive moments, we come to understand how the Chinese view their own history and how its narrative is distinctly different from that of Western civilization.
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Horrific narration
- By Furry Cheese on 06-08-22
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Superpower Interrupted
- The Chinese History of the World
- Narrated by: Shawn Compton
- Length: 13 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 09-06-20
- Language: English
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City of My Heart
- Accounts of Love, Loss and Betrayal in Nineteenth-Century Delhi
- By: Rana Safvi - translator and editor
- Narrated by: Honey Razza
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Through nuanced translations of four Urdu narratives spanning the period of turmoil that led to the Revolt of 1857, and culminated in the fall of the Mughal Empire, this compelling volume reveals the tragic and affecting story of a royalty in decline. Vividly documenting the twilight years of not just a historical era but also an entire way of life, these first-hand accounts - gleaned from princes and paupers alike - provide rare insight into how the royals and their subjects experienced life on either side of the cataclysm.
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City of My Heart
- Accounts of Love, Loss and Betrayal in Nineteenth-Century Delhi
- Narrated by: Honey Razza
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 08-12-20
- Language: English
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The End of India
- By: Khushwant Singh
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
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"I thought the nation was coming to an end", wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He believed then that he had seen the worst that India could do to herself. But after the violence in Gujarat in 2002, he felt that the worst, perhaps, is still to come. Analysing the anti-Sikh riots of 1984, the burning of Graham Staines and his children, the targeted killings by terrorists in Punjab and Kashmir, Singh confronts the absolute corruption of religion that has made us among the most brutal people on earth.
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The End of India
- Narrated by: Rajiv Dadia
- Length: 2 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 20-11-20
- Language: English
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The Origins of the Modern World
- A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, 2nd Edition (World Social Change)
- By: Robert B. Marks
- Narrated by: Michael Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
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This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles.
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The Origins of the Modern World
- A Global and Ecological Narrative from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-first Century, 2nd Edition (World Social Change)
- Narrated by: Michael Sears
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 24-03-14
- Language: English
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The Partition of British India
- The History and Legacy of the Division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
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Thanks to its commercial complexion and the power invested in a board of directors, British rule in India was characterized by economic monopolies, aggressive trade practices, punitive taxation, and the impoverishment of vast regions of India. Much of the company's industry was based on a policy of producing and exporting raw materials from India, and importing manufactured goods to satisfy an almost unlimited local market.
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Sound and Crisp
- By Anonymous User on 29-08-17
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The Partition of British India
- The History and Legacy of the Division of the British Raj into India and Pakistan
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 31 mins
- Release date: 02-08-17
- Language: English
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Our Man in Tokyo
- An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
- By: Steve Kemper
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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A gripping, behind-the-scenes account of the personalities and contending forces in Tokyo during the volatile decade that led to World War II, as seen through the eyes of the American ambassador who attempted to stop the slide to war.
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Our Man in Tokyo
- An American Ambassador and the Countdown to Pearl Harbor
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 08-11-22
- Language: English
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Rampage
- MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
- By: James M. Scott
- Narrated by: Jesse Einstein
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
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The 29-day battle to liberate Manila resulted in the catastrophic destruction of the city and a rampage by Japanese forces that brutalized the civilian population. Landmarks were demolished, houses were torched, suspected resistance fighters were tortured and killed, countless women were raped, and their husbands and children were murdered. American troops had no choice but to battle the enemy, floor by floor and even room by room, through schools, hospitals, and even sports stadiums. In the end, an estimated 100,000 civilians lost their lives in the massacre.
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Simply unfathomable
- By eric.rayner@btinternet.com on 29-03-23
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Rampage
- MacArthur, Yamashita, and the Battle of Manila
- Narrated by: Jesse Einstein
- Length: 21 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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The Battle of Sekigahara
- The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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On October 21, 1600, two massive Japanese armies, totaling an estimated 200,000 soldiers armed to the teeth with swords, yari (spears), arrows, muskets, and cannons, faced off on a battlefield near the town of Sekigahara. A bitter fight to the death ensued, and the results would determine the course of Japanese history for the next 250 years. On the battlefield was the warlord Leyasu Tokugawa, a man desiring domain over the entire island of Japan, but standing in his way was Ishida Mitsunari, a warlord controlling vast swaths of western Japan.
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The Battle of Sekigahara
- The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate
- Narrated by: Bill Hare
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
- Release date: 29-01-20
- Language: English
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Savarkar (Part 2) A
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- By: Vikram Sampath
- Narrated by: Pratik Sharma
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
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Decades after his death, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar continues to uniquely influence India's political scenario. An optimistic advocate of Hindu-Muslim unity in his treatise on the 1857 War of Independence, what was it that transformed him into a proponent of "Hindutva"? A former president of the All-India Hindu Mahasabha, Savarkar was a severe critic of the Congress's appeasement politics.
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Excellent read
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-24
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Savarkar (Part 2) A
- A Contested Legacy, 1924-1966
- Narrated by: Pratik Sharma
- Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 11-05-22
- Language: English
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India: What Can It Teach Us?
- By: Friedrich Max Müller
- Narrated by: Siddhanta Pinto
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
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A collection of the lectures of Max Muller, India: What it Can Teach Us portrays India, especially Vedic India, as an epitome of virtue and morality, whose glory is equal to classical Greek and Roman thought. Muller, in these essays, urges the West to abandon their superior colonial mind-set to adopt the multi-dimensional efficacy that is inherent to Indian culture.
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India: What Can It Teach Us?
- Narrated by: Siddhanta Pinto
- Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 21-05-24
- Language: English
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Life in India: Traditions Culture and Bollywood
- By: Tom Stewart
- Narrated by: Anand Bhatt
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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This is a complete guide for all ages of listeners out there who wish to know more about the glorious life in India, from its traditions to culture and even sacred acts that most of us never knew about! Have you ever looked deeper into the nitty gritty details of a certain or specific tradition? The history behind all the Indian myths? This is exactly what you'll be hearing about, and, soon enough, you'll be so engrossed in the book that you'll just want to keep listening. We'll be unveiling multiple unknown facts about Indian traditions that were thought to be true only in folktales.
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Life in India: Traditions Culture and Bollywood
- Narrated by: Anand Bhatt
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 12-01-16
- Language: English
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Check Six!
- A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific
- By: James C. Curran, Terrence G. Popravak Jr.
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
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There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James "Jug" Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter Group, the first P-47 Thunderbolt outfit in the Pacific. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Curran volunteered to try flying in the blue yonder and trained as an Army fighter pilot. He got his wish to fly the P-47 in the Pacific, going into combat in August 1943, in New Guinea, and later helping start the "Black Rams" fighter squadron.
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Check Six!
- A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific
- Narrated by: Joshua Saxon
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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On a Chinese Screen
- By: W Somerset Maugham
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
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Maugham spent the winter months of 1919 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places, he noted down acute and finely crafted sketches of those he met on countless scraps of paper. In the resulting collection we encounter Western missionaries, army officers and company managers who are culturally out of their depth in the immensity of the Chinese civilisation.
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On a Chinese Screen
- Narrated by: Richard Mitchley
- Length: 4 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 08-11-12
- Language: English
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- By: Anna Hariette Leonowens
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court, written in 1870, vividly recounts the experiences of one Anna Harriette Leonowens as governess for the sixty-plus children of King Mongkut of Siam, and translator and scribe for the King himself. Bright, young, and energetic, Leonowens was well-suited to her role and her writings convey a heartfelt interest in the lives, legends, and languages of Siam's rich and poor.
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The English Governess at the Siamese Court
- Narrated by: Nadia May
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 01-11-05
- Language: English
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Japan
- A BBC Documentary Collection
- By: Christopher Harding, Alex Bellos, Rana Mitter, and others
- Narrated by: Various
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
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Japan is a land of complexity, contrast and contradictions. The world's third-largest economy, it is a powerhouse of innovation and a pioneer in technology, fashion and pop culture. But it also has a rich, ancient heritage and a deep reverence for custom, ritual and tradition. This illuminating two-part radio collection traverses the different aspects of this fascinating country, from its famous historical figures to its diverse cultural landscape.
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Genghis Khan
- History’s Greatest Conquerors (Conquerors of the World, Volume 1)
- By: Walter Scott
- Narrated by: David Washington
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
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Genghis Khan was without a doubt one of the greatest conquerors of all time. He changed the course of history with his small army of horsemen as he built an empire that spread from China to Europe! We have heard many apocalyptic and dire descriptions, but who was he really? From his days as a poor and persecuted forager of the steppes to his years as world conqueror, this audiobook follows all the twists, turns, and gallops of Genghis Khan’s life.
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Genghis Khan
- History’s Greatest Conquerors (Conquerors of the World, Volume 1)
- Narrated by: David Washington
- Series: World's Conquerors, Book 1
- Length: 1 hr and 55 mins
- Release date: 27-06-18
- Language: English
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A History of Korea (Third Edition)
- By: Kyung Moon Hwang
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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This accessible and engaging new edition continues to be one of the leading introductory textbooks on Korean history. Fully revised throughout, the author takes a thematic and chronological approach to guide listeners from early state formation and the dynastic eras to the modern experience. Episodic accounts in each chapter are discussed in context with extensive examination of how the events and themes under consideration have been viewed up to the present day.
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A History of Korea (Third Edition)
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 08-03-22
- Language: English
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