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    The Gate to China: A New History of the People’s Republic & Hong Kong

    by Michael Sheridan ...
    Narrated by Daniel York ...

    Unabridged

    20 hours 21 min

    ‘Impressive … Fascinating’ Sunday Times‘An authoritative history’ Financial Times‘Gripping and richly researched’ Rana MitterA superb new history of the rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule.The rise of China and the fall of Hong Kong to authoritarian rule are told with unique insight in this new history by Michael Sheridan, drawing on eyewitness rep... ... Read more

    $58.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    First They Killed My Father

    A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers

    by Loung Ung ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 39 min

    One of seven children of a high-ranking government official, Loung Ung lived a privileged life in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh until the age of five. Then, in April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge army stormed into the city, forcing Ung's family to flee and, eventually, to disperse. Loung was trained as a child soldier in a work camp for orphans, her siblings were sent to labor camps, and those ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Our Oriental Heritage

    A History of Civilization in Egypt and the Near East to the Death of Alexander, and in India, China, and Japan from the Beginning to Our Own Day, with

    by Will Durant ...
    Narrated by Robin Field ...
    Audiobook 1 - The Story of Civilization

    Unabridged

    50 hours 17 min

    The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine, and mummification more than 3,500 years ... Read more

    $43.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975

    by Max Hastings ...
    Narrated by Max Hastings, Peter Noble ...

    Unabridged

    33 hours 33 min

    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator ‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times ‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the YearVietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent ... Read more

    $66.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Last Boat Out of Shanghai

    The Epic Story of the Chinese Who Fled Mao's Revolution

    by Helen Zia ...
    Narrated by Nancy Wu ...

    Unabridged

    17 hours 13 min

    The dramatic real life stories of four young people caught up in the mass exodus of Shanghai in the wake of China's 1949 Communist revolution. Shanghai has historically been China's jewel, its richest, most modern, and westernized city. The bustling metropolis was home to sophisticated intellectuals, entrepreneurs, and a thriving middle class when Mao's proletarian revolution emerged victorious ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    Narrated by Bettany Hughes ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 35 min

    Istanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical fact. From the Qu'ran to Shakespeare, this city with three names - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between the East and West, it has served as the capital of ... Read more

    $55.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister

    Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China

    by Jung Chang ...
    Narrated by Joanna David ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 32 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far more to the Soong sisters than these caricatures. As China battled through a hundred years of wars, ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    North Korea

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by Patrick McEachern ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 33 min

    In this book, former North Korea lead foreign service officer at the U.S. embassy in Seoul, Patrick McEachern, unpacks the contentious and tangled relationship between the Koreas in an approachable question-and-answer format. While North Korea is famous for its militarism and nuclear program, South Korea is best known for its economic miracle, familiar to consumers as the producer of Samsung ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A History of Japan

    Revised Edition

    by R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger ...
    Narrated by Derek Perkins ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 7 min

    A classic of Japanese history, this book is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume, complete history of the nation of Japan. Starting in ancient Japan during its early pre-history period A History of Japan covers every important aspect of history and culture through feudal Japan to the post-cold War period and collapse of the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Asia Works

    Success and Failure in the World's Most Dynamic Region

    by Joe Studwell ...
    Narrated by Nigel Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 46 min

    In the 1980s and 1990s many in the West came to believe in the myth of an East-Asian economic miracle, with countries seen as not just development prodigies but as a unified bloc, culturally and economically similar, and inexorably on the rise. In How Asia Works, Joe Studwell distills extensive research into the economics of nine countries-Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Battle of Sekigahara, The: The History and Legacy of the Battle that Unified Japan under the Tokugawa Shogunate

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Bill Hare ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 27 min

    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 Ieyasu Tokugawa, a man ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The Emperor's Feast

    'A tasty portrait of a nation' –Sunday Telegraph

    by Jonathan Clements ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Clements ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 31 min

    The journey of Chinese food over 5,000 years of history - and the story it tells us about the land and its people.From the humble takeaway in the middle of a tiny English village to the embarrassment of riches offered in a big-city Chinatown, Chinese food is everywhere to be found. But the meals on offer merely scratch the surface of a rich and dizzyingly varied culinary tradition, spread across 5 ... Read more

    $35.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Horde

    How the Mongols Changed the World

    by Marie Favereau ...
    Narrated by Anne Flosnik ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 8 min

    In the first comprehensive history of the Horde, Marie Favereau shows that the accomplishments of the Mongols extended far beyond war. Favereau takes us inside one of the most powerful sources of cross-border integration in world history. The Horde was the central node in the Eurasian commercial boom of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Secret History of the Mongol Queens

    How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire

    by Jack Weatherford ...
    Narrated by Robertson Dean ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the greatest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: “Let us reward our female offspring.” Only this hint of a father’s legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story.The queens of the Silk ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Reluctant Communist

    My Desertion, Court-Martial, and Forty-Year Imprisonment in North Korea

    by Charles Robert Jenkins ...
    Narrated by John McLain ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours

    In January of 1965, twenty-four-year-old U.S. Army sergeant Charles Robert Jenkins abandoned his post in South Korea, walked across the DMZ, and surrendered to communist North Korean soldiers standing sentry along the world's most heavily militarized border. He believed his action would get him back to the States and a short jail sentence. Instead he found himself in another sort of prison, where ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    有聲版國別史系列-大洋洲篇(書摘)

    by 李龍華, 愛播聽書FM ...
    Narrated by 三民書局編輯 ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    「打開一本書，聽見全世界」，三民書局與愛播聽書FM攜手合作-《有聲版國別史系列─大洋洲篇》帶你揭開紐西蘭與澳大利亞的歷史真相！播講介紹：《澳大利亞史》講者：三民書局編輯留逸傑作者：李龍華澳洲大學歷史學博士，曾擔任國立中正大學歷史學系副教授、中華民國海外華人研究學會監事，專門從事明清史、港澳史、紐澳史、東南亞史以及海外華人史之研究。《紐西蘭史》講者：三民書局編輯沈敬家作者：李龍華澳洲大學歷史學博士，曾擔任國立中正大學歷史學系副教授、中華民國海外華人研究學會監事，專門從事明清史、港澳史、紐澳史、東南亞史以及海外華人史之研究。章節名稱：01澳大利亞史02紐西蘭史 ... Read more

    $4.99 AUD

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    Against White Feminism

    by Rafia Zakaria ...
    Narrated by Ulka Simone Mohanty ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 24 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.An essential, comprehensive account of what white feminism is - and an empowering manifesto for revolutionFor readers of Reni Eddo-Lodge's Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, Caroline Criado Perez's Invisible Women and Florence Given's Women Don't Owe You PrettyFeminism is supposed to be the fight for the freedom and equality of women. And in the... ... Read more

    $22.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Gensyn med Østen

    by Aage Krarup Nielsen ...
    Narrated by Søren Elung Jensen ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 9 min

    Anden Verdenskrig forandrede Asien på alle måder. Da støvet havde lagt sig så landskabet, befolkningen og den politiske situation helt anderledes ud. Aage Krarup Nielsen har rejst meget i Asien før krigen, og det giver hans gensyn med Østen en helt særlig dimension. Vejen går til "hele verdens tehave", øen Ceylon, Singapore, der bliver kaldt Østens Babylon, og som nu langsomt bygges op igen efter ... Read more

    $11.99 AUD

  • Audiobook

    Haunted Japan

    Exploring the World of Japanese Yokai, Ghosts and the Paranormal

    by Catrien Ross ...
    Narrated by Ruth Urquhart ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 43 min

    Japanese folklore is abundant with tales of ghostly creatures and the supernatural. In Haunted Japan, author Catrien Ross reveals the legends that have been passed down for generations and continue to terrify us today. To research this book on the country's ghosts, demons and paranormal phenomena, Ross collected accounts from across Japan including: ● Sacred Mount Osore, a Japanese gateway to the ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Jerusalem

    The Biography

    by Simon Sebag Montefiore ...
    Narrated by Andrew Sachs ...

    Abridged

    11 hours 48 min

    Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires, the site of Judgement Day and the battlefield of today's clash of civilizations. From King David to Barack Obama, from the birth of Judaism, Christianity and Islam to the Israel-Palestine conflict, this is the epic history of 3,000 years of faith, slaughter, fanaticism and ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Genghis Khan

    His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy

    by Frank McLynn ...
    Narrated by Tim Andres Pabon ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 13 min

    Mongol leader Genghis Khan was by far the greatest conqueror the world has ever known. His empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean to central Europe, including all of China, the Middle East, and Russia. So how did an illiterate nomad rise to such colossal power and subdue most of the known world, eclipsing Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and Napoleon? Credited by some with paving the way for ... Read more

    $51.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Korea

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Michael J. Seth ...
    Narrated by Paul Heitsch ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 30 min

    Having spent centuries in the shadows of its neighbors China and Japan, Korea is now the object of considerable interest for radically different reasons-the South as an economic success story and for its vibrant popular culture; the North as the home to one of the world's most repressive regimes, at once both bizarre and menacing. Korea: A Very Short Introduction explores the history, culture, and ... Read more

    $19.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Mongol Storm

    Making and Breaking Empires in the Medieval Near East

    by Nicholas Morton ...
    Narrated by Nick Biadon ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 51 min

    How the Mongol invasions of the Near East reshaped the balance of world power in the Middle Ages.For centuries, the Crusades have been central to the story of the medieval Near East, but these religious wars are only part of the region's complex history. As The Mongol Storm reveals, during the same era the Near East was utterly remade by another series of wars: the Mongol invasions.In a single ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    Gulf of Tonkin Incident, The: The History of the Controversial Event that Escalated America’s Involvement in Vietnam

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Daniel Houle ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    In 1964, the USS Maddox was an intelligence-gathering naval ship stationed off the coast of North Vietnam for the purpose of gathering information about the ongoing conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The borders between the two sides were in dispute, and the United States was less up to date on changes in these borders than the two belligerents. In the process, the USS Maddox ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial