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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Jack Weatherford
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Durée: 14 h et 20 min
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Great story, annoying music
- Écrit par Rob Smith le 2020-07-18
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A Brief History of Japan
- Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Clements
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 8 h et 41 min
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This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....
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History need not be dry.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-04-03
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Hiroshima
- Auteur(s): John Hersey
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 5 h et 23 min
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through...
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Destiny Disrupted
- A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
- Auteur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Narrateur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Durée: 17 h et 29 min
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“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle) In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim...
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- Auteur(s): John Toland
- Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
- Durée: 41 h et 9 min
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This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....
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A compelling, very informative book
- Écrit par Armstrong le 2023-05-07
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Under Assault
- Interference and Espionage in China's Secret War Against Canada
- Auteur(s): Dennis Molinaro
- Narrateur(s): Taylor Price
- Durée: 8 h et 12 min
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A Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Book in 2025 FOREWORD BY CHERIE WONG National security expert Dennis Molinaro reveals the shocking details of Beijing’s five-decades-long effort to influence and interfere in Canadian political life. From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the...
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Auteur(s): Jack Weatherford
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Durée: 14 h et 20 min
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Au global604
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Performance500
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Histoire497
The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....
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Great story, annoying music
- Écrit par Rob Smith le 2020-07-18
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A Brief History of Japan
- Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Clements
- Narrateur(s): Julian Elfer
- Durée: 8 h et 41 min
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Au global80
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Performance65
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Histoire65
This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....
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History need not be dry.
- Écrit par Amazon Customer le 2020-04-03
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Hiroshima
- Auteur(s): John Hersey
- Narrateur(s): George Guidall
- Durée: 5 h et 23 min
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Au global10
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Performance8
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Histoire8
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through...
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Destiny Disrupted
- A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
- Auteur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Narrateur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Durée: 17 h et 29 min
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“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle) In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim...
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The Rising Sun
- The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
- Auteur(s): John Toland
- Narrateur(s): Tom Weiner
- Durée: 41 h et 9 min
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Au global66
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Performance48
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Histoire48
This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....
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A compelling, very informative book
- Écrit par Armstrong le 2023-05-07
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Under Assault
- Interference and Espionage in China's Secret War Against Canada
- Auteur(s): Dennis Molinaro
- Narrateur(s): Taylor Price
- Durée: 8 h et 12 min
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A Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Book in 2025 FOREWORD BY CHERIE WONG National security expert Dennis Molinaro reveals the shocking details of Beijing’s five-decades-long effort to influence and interfere in Canadian political life. From cultivating future political leaders at the end of the...
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In Order to Live
- A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom
- Auteur(s): Yeonmi Park
- Narrateur(s): Eji Kim
- Durée: 9 h et 37 min
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“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park “One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into...
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An Amazing Story of Survival and Resilience
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2021-07-24
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The Aquariums of Pyongyang
- Ten Years in the North Korean Gulag
- Auteur(s): Chol-hwan Kang, Pierre Rigoulot
- Narrateur(s): Stephen Park
- Durée: 7 h et 22 min
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"Destined to become a classic" (Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking), this harrowing memoir of life inside North Korea was the first account to emerge from the notoriously secretive country -- and it remains one of the most terrifying. Amid escalating nuclear tensions, Kim Jong-un and...
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Dog Man
- An Uncommon Life on a Faraway Mountain
- Auteur(s): Martha Sherrill
- Narrateur(s): Laural Merlington
- Durée: 6 h et 18 min
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Martha Sherrill brings us to a world that Americans know very little about---the snow country of Japan during World War II....
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We Few
- US Special Forces in Vietnam
- Auteur(s): Nick Brokhausen
- Narrateur(s): George Spelvin
- Durée: 14 h et 7 min
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A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....
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Incredible book
- Écrit par Jonny le 2020-07-03
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Escape from Camp 14
- One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West
- Auteur(s): Blaine Harden
- Narrateur(s): Blaine Harden
- Durée: 5 h et 44 min
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A New York Times bestseller, the shocking story of one of the few people born in a North Korean political prison to have escaped and survived. Blaine Harden's latest book, King of Spies, will be available from Viking in Fall 2017. North Korea is isolated and hungry, bankrupt and belligerent...
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Ghosts of Hiroshima
- Auteur(s): Charles Pellegrino
- Narrateur(s): Martin Sheen
- Durée: 8 h et 58 min
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From the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Her Name and Titanic, this masterpiece of nonfiction arrives in time to honor the eightieth anniversary of the bomb dropping on Hiroshima.
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A Brief History of the Samurai
- Brief Histories
- Auteur(s): Jonathan Clements
- Narrateur(s): Jonathan Keeble
- Durée: 12 h et 1 min
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From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....
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Defending Heaven
- China's Mongol Wars, 1209-1370
- Auteur(s): James Waterson, John Man - Foreword
- Narrateur(s): Derek Perkins
- Durée: 8 h et 54 min
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Defending Heaven brings together, for the first time in one volume, a complete history of the Jin, Song, and Ming dynasties' wars fought against the Mongols....
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The Vietnam War
- A Military History
- Auteur(s): Geoffrey Wawro
- Narrateur(s): Andy Ingalls
- Durée: 22 h et 51 min
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The Vietnam War cast a shadow over the American psyche from the moment it began. In its time it sparked budget deficits, campus protests, and an erosion of US influence around the world.
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Games Without Rules
- The Often-Interrupted History of Afghanistan
- Auteur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Narrateur(s): Tamim Ansary
- Durée: 14 h et 40 min
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Today, most Westerners still see the war in Afghanistan as a contest between democracy and Islamist fanaticism.....
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Very Interesting!
- Écrit par Graham Osadczuk le 2024-01-10
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The Art of War
- Auteur(s): Sun Tzu
- Narrateur(s): Lawrence Clarke
- Durée: 1 h et 24 min
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The Art of War is a renowned ancient Chinese military treatise written by Sun Tzu, a military strategist and philosopher. Composed around the fifth...
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Hell in a Very Small Place
- The Siege of Dien Bien Phu
- Auteur(s): Bernard B. Fall
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 19 h et 40 min
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Like Gettysburg, Stalingrad, Midway, and Tet, the battle at Dien Bien Phu - a strategic attack launched by France against the Vietnamese in 1954 - marked a historic turning point....
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Very Good
- Écrit par Trevor le 2019-10-29
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The Finest Hotel in Kabul
- A People's History of Afghanistan
- Auteur(s): Lyse Doucet
- Narrateur(s): Lyse Doucet
- Durée: 13 h et 52 min
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A NATIONAL BESTSELLER A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE The story of a hotel. The story of a nation. When the Inter-Continental Kabul opened in 1969, Afghanistan’s first luxury hotel symbolised a dream of a modernising country connected to the world. More than fifty years on...
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Immersive experience for the ages
- Écrit par andrew le 2025-12-10
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Hue 1968
- A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
- Auteur(s): Mark Bowden
- Narrateur(s): Joe Barrett
- Durée: 18 h et 45 min
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Huế 1968 is the story of the centerpiece of the Tet Offensive and a turning point in the American War in Vietnam....
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Bowden is a great storyteller and this is story worth telling
- Écrit par James le 2023-08-07
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People Who Eat Darkness
- The True Story of a Young Woman Who Vanished from the Streets of Tokyo—and the Evil That Swallowed Her Up
- Auteur(s): Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrateur(s): Simon Vance
- Durée: 13 h et 20 min
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Lucie Blackman—tall, blond, 21 years old—stepped out into the vastness of Tokyo in the summer of 2000 and disappeared....
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Holy....jeeZ
- Écrit par Brett le 2018-03-16
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Burma '44
- The Battle That Turned World War II in the East
- Auteur(s): James Holland
- Narrateur(s): Al Murray
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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Celebrated historian of World War II James Holland chronicles the astonishing Allied victory at the Battle of the Admin Box in Burma (now Myanmar), a turning point of the war in the Far East.
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Amazing book
- Écrit par Paul Normore le 2025-06-11
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Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism
- A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China
- Auteur(s): Robert Jay Lifton
- Narrateur(s): Bobby Brill
- Durée: 19 h et 23 min
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Informed by Erik Erikson's concept of the formation of ego identity, this book, which first appeared in 1961, is an analysis of the experiences of 15 Chinese citizens and 25 Westerners who underwent "brainwashing" by the Communist Chinese government....
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The Jakarta Method
- Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World
- Auteur(s): Vincent Bevins
- Narrateur(s): Tim Paige
- Durée: 9 h et 58 min
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ “A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the world In 1965, the US...
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unconscious vs conscious bias
- Écrit par Wells Cushnie le 2021-09-11
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To Hell and Back
- The Last Train from Hiroshima
- Auteur(s): Charles Pellegrino
- Narrateur(s): David Colacci
- Durée: 18 h et 16 min
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To Hell and Back offers listeners a stunning "you are there" time capsule, wrapped in elegant prose. Charles Pellegrino's scientific authority and close relationship with the A-bomb survivors make his account the most gripping and authoritative ever written....
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A gut turning retelling of accounts
- Écrit par Utilisateur anonyme le 2022-06-01
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Ghost Wars
- The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
- Auteur(s): Steve Coll
- Narrateur(s): Malcolm Hillgartner
- Durée: 26 h et 48 min
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The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents...
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Honest and informative
- Écrit par william gary irwin le 2020-10-25
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Tokyo Vice
- An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan
- Auteur(s): Jake Adelstein
- Narrateur(s): Jake Adelstein
- Durée: 10 h et 35 min
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From the only American journalist ever to have been admitted to the insular Tokyo Metropolitan Police press club: a unique, firsthand, revelatory look at Japanese culture from the underbelly up. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life...
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A Look Into Life, and Lessons, in Japan
- Écrit par Alexander Jackson le 2022-01-02
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The Rape of Nanking
- Auteur(s): Iris Chang
- Narrateur(s): Anna Fields
- Durée: 8 h et 3 min
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In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.
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Eye opening
- Écrit par Kooky Canuck le 2019-08-02
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The Art of War: The Classic Guide to Strategy
- Essential Pocket Classics
- Auteur(s): Sun Tzu, Lionel Giles - translator
- Narrateur(s): Emily Woo Zeller
- Durée: 1 h et 17 min
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Sun Tzu’s The Art of War offers the wisdom of ancient China for the modern listener. Originally written in the 5th century, The Art of War is a masterpiece of military strategy and Chinese philosophy that has influenced countless leaders, both on the battlefield and in the boardroom. The...
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- Auteur(s): Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrateur(s): Robertson Dean
- Durée: 29 h et 50 min
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“Ever since the spectacular success of Chang’s Wild Swans we have waited impatiently for her to complete with her husband this monumental study of China’s most notorious modern leader. The expectation has been that she would rewrite modern Chinese history. The wait has been worthwhile and...
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Excellent
- Écrit par Thor le 2019-02-24