Central Asian History

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    • A New History from the Imperial Conquests to the Present
    • By: Adeeb Khalid
    • Narrated by: Aaqil Ahmed
    • Length: 17 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Adeeb Khalid provides the first comprehensive history of Central Asia from the mid-18th century to today, shedding light on the historical forces that have shaped the region under imperial and Communist rule....

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    • A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
    • By: Christopher I. Beckwith
    • Narrated by: Jim Lee
    • Length: 13 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • With narration by Jim Lee, who tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires....

    $17.90 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia
    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 750 ratings
    • The Great Game between Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia was fought across desolate terrain from the Caucasus to China, over the lonely passes of the Parmirs and Karakorams....

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    • The Ancient World Economy and the Empires of Parthia, Central Asia and Han China
    • By: Raoul McLaughlin
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 154 ratings
    • The Roman Empire and the Silk Routes investigates the trade routes between Rome and the powerful empires of inner Asia, including the Parthian regime which ruled ancient Persia (Iran)....

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    • Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane
    • By: S. Frederick Starr
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 25 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise....

    $39.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • A New History
    • By: Valerie Hansen
    • Narrated by: Jo Anna Perrin
    • Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • In The Silk Road, Valerie Hansen describes the remarkable archaeological finds that revolutionize our understanding of these trade routes....

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    • How the Mongols Changed the World
    • By: Marie Favereau
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • 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 13th and 14th centuries and was a conduit for exchanges across thousands of miles....

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    • The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89
    • By: Rodric Braithwaite
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. It is a great story—but it never happened....

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    • Pakistan, the United States, and an Epic History of Misunderstanding
    • By: Husain Haqqani
    • Narrated by: Ralph Lister
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • A character-driven history that describes the alliance between America and Pakistan, written by a uniquely insightful participant: Pakistan's former ambassador to the US....

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    • Child Brides, Drug Lords, and One Woman's Journey Through Afghanistan
    • By: Fariba Nawa
    • Narrated by: Holly Adams
    • Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • An Afghan-American journalist offers a revealing look inside a country torn apart—from corrupt officials to warlords and child brides—while revisiting her own family's deep roots to the land....

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    • 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....

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    • America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014
    • By: Carlotta Gall
    • Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
    • Length: 13 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 06-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan" (Financial Times)....

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    • One Man's Rescue Mission That Changed the Course of WWII
    • By: John R. Bruning
    • Narrated by: Brian Troxell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,250 ratings
    • In this remarkable WWII story by New York Times best-selling author John R. Bruning, a renegade American pilot fights against all odds to rescue his family - imprisoned by the Japanese - and revolutionizes modern warfare along the way....

    $35.09 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001
    • By: Steve Coll
    • Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
    • Length: 26 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2,293 ratings
    • The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....

    $24.50 or free with 30-day trial

    • By: David McMillan
    • Narrated by: David McMillan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-07-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Unforgiving Destiny follows the true story of the 37-year pursuit by authorities on five continents to imprison and execute David McMillan as he travelled as an independent smuggler. Dogged by an obsessed DEA agent, he evades the death penalty in Thailand by escaping prison....

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    • Between Empire and Anarchy, from the Mediterranean to China
    • By: Robert D. Kaplan
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-22-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 78 ratings
    • Robert D. Kaplan explores Greater Middle East through reporting and travel writing to reveal deeper truths about the impacts of history on the present and how the requirements of stability over anarchy are often in conflict with the ideals of democratic governance.

    $22.50 or free with 30-day trial

    • A Cultural and Political History
    • By: Thomas Barfield
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 237 ratings
    • Afghanistan traces the historic struggles and the changing nature of political authority in this volatile region of the world, from the Mughal Empire in the 16th century to the Taliban resurgence today....

    $29.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • Central Eurasia and the Birth of the Classical Age from Persia to China
    • By: Christopher I. Beckwith
    • Narrated by: Jim Lee
    • Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Jim Lee provides a rich, discovery-filled account of how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world....

    $18.68 or free with 30-day trial