Asian Biography

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    • 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 2,616 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....

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    • 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 710 ratings
    • Twelve-year-old Ji-li Jiang has brains, friends, and a bright future. Then Mao Zedong launches China’s infamous Cultural Revolution....

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    • 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 64 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....

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    • 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 121 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....

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    • 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 69 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....

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    • 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 36 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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    • 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 2,838 ratings
    • A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

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    • 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 2,042 ratings
    • Whispers in the Tall Grass is the second volume of Nick's riveting memoir of his time with MACV-SOG....

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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 143 ratings
    • Author Ramachandra Guha has drawn on 60 different archival collections to reconstruct social and political activist Mohandas Gandhi's life and work....

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    • 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 1,243 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....

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    • 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....

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    • By: Anchee Min
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • A revelatory and disturbing portrait of China, this is Anchee Min's celebrated memoir of growing up in the last years of Mao's China. Forbidden to speak, dress, read, write, or love as she pleased, she found a lifeline in a secret love affair with another woman....

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    • A Hmong Family Memoir
    • By: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Narrated by: Kao Kalia Yang
    • Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-17-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 292 ratings
    • In the 70s and 80s, thousands of Hmong families made the journey from the war-torn jungles of Laos to the overcrowded refugee camps of Thailand and onward to the United States....

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    • 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 474 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....

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    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Using a wealth of previously untapped documents, Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa...

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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 368 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....

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    • 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 128 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 Daring Escape of American POWs from a Japanese Death Camp
    • By: Stephen L. Moore
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • As Good as Dead is one of the greatest escape stories of World War II. Endurance, determination, and courage in the face of death make this a gripping and inspiring saga of survival....

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    • Memoir of a United States Marine, Third Force Recon Company, Vietnam
    • By: John Edmund Delezen
    • Narrated by: David Marantz
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 11-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,056 ratings
    • John Edmund Delezen felt a kinship with the people he was instructed to kill in Vietnam; they were all at the mercy of the land. His memoir begins when he enlisted in the Marine Corps and was sent to Vietnam in March of 1967....

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