Asian Biography

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    • The True Story of How I Survived and Escaped North Korea
    • By: Sungju Lee, Susan McClelland
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Every Falling Star is the intense memoir of a North Korean boy named Sungju who is forced at age 12 to live on the streets and fend for himself. To survive, Sungju creates a gang....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • A North Korean Defector’s Story
    • By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
    • Narrated by: Josie Dunn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,609 ratings
    • An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships - and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom....

    Regular price: $24.67

    • The Untold Story of the Women Who Took on the U.S. Government to Bring Their Husbands Home
    • By: Heath Hardage Lee
    • Narrated by: Heath Hardage Lee
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam....

    Regular price: $20.24

    • The Epic Life of Minamoto Yoshitsune
    • By: Pamela S. Turner
    • Narrated by: Brian Nishii
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 08-17-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 172 ratings
    • Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. This epic warrior tale may sound like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai Japanese history....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan into the Future
    • By: Fawzia Koofi, Nadene Ghouri
    • Narrated by: Emily Durante
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • The 19th daughter of a local village leader in rural Afghanistan, Fawzia Koofi was left to die in the sun after birth by her mother....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Catherine Ho
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • They were the most famous sisters in China. As the country battled through 100 years of wars, revolutions, and seismic transformations, the three Soong sisters from Shanghai were at the center of power, and each of them left an indelible mark on history....

    Regular price: $20.25

    • L Company Rangers in Vietnam, 1969
    • By: Gary A. Linderer
    • Narrated by: David Colacci
    • Series: Gary A. Linderer Vietnam Autobiographies, Book 2
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 455 ratings
    • In mid-December 1968, after recovering from wounds sustained in a murderous mission, Gary Linderer returned to Phu Bai to complete his tour of duty as a LRP. His job was to find the enemy, observe him, or kill him - all the while behind enemy lines....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • US Special Forces in Vietnam
    • By: Nick Brokhausen
    • Narrated by: George Spelvin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,824 ratings
    • A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath
    • By: Michael Norman, Elizabeth Norman
    • Narrated by: Michael Prichard
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,381 ratings
    • For the first four months of 1942, U.S., Filipino, and Japanese soldiers fought what was America's first major land battle of World War II, the battle for the tiny Philippine peninsula of Bataan....

    Regular price: $20.20

    • A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution
    • By: Ji-li Jiang
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 709 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • By: Nick Brokhausen
    • Narrated by: George Spelvin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,036 ratings
    • Whispers in the Tall Grass is the second volume of Nick's riveting memoir of his time with MACV-SOG....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
    • By: Loung Ung
    • Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
    • Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,241 ratings
    • 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....

    Regular price: $15.47

    • Meiji and His World, 1852-1912
    • By: Donald Keene
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 38 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Little has been written about the strangely obscured figure of Meiji himself, the first Japanese emperor ever to meet a European. But now, Donald Keene sifts the available evidence to present a rich portrait not only of Meiji but also of change during this period in Japan's history....

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    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century....

    Regular price: $34.39

    • A Memoir
    • By: Nicole Chung
    • Narrated by: Janet Song
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 472 ratings
    • Nicole Chung tells of her search for the people who gave her up, which coincided with the birth of her own child. All You Can Ever Know is a profound, moving chronicle of surprising connections and the repercussions of unearthing painful family secrets....

    Regular price: $17.19

    • One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations
    • By: Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
    • Narrated by: Patrick Lawlor
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2,740 ratings
    • In 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan's Karakoram Himalaya....

    Regular price: $18.91

    • A Marine's True Story of Duty and Heroism in Vietnam
    • By: Michael C. Hodgins
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 125 ratings
    • By the spring of 1970, American troops were ordered to pull out of Vietnam. The Marines of First Reconnaissance Battalion, commanded by Lieutenant Colonel "Wild Bill" Drumright, were assigned to cover the withdrawal of First Marine Division....

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    • The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948
    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 36 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 141 ratings
    • Author Ramachandra Guha has drawn on 60 different archival collections to reconstruct social and political activist Mohandas Gandhi's life and work....

    Regular price: $30.09