- Asia (236)
Bestsellers
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- By: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- By K on 05-24-21
By: Rashid Khalidi
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The Shadow War
- Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
- By: Jim Sciutto
- Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....
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Informative and interesting, but incomplete.
- By ZenBowman on 05-25-19
By: Jim Sciutto
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Blowout
- Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million....
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chilling...
- By Kindle Customer on 10-12-19
By: Rachel Maddow
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The Gates of Gaza
- A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands
- By: Amir Tibon
- Narrated by: Amir Tibon
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli settlement along the Gaza border. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family’s reinforced safe room.
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Humanity
- By Marla Shuman on 10-27-24
By: Amir Tibon
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Target Tehran
- How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
- By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States.
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Couldn’t walk away !
- By ADAM on 01-10-24
By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, and others
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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?
By: Ilan Pappe
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The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
- A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917--2017
- By: Rashid Khalidi
- Narrated by: Fajer Al-Kaisi, Rashid Khalidi - introduction
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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A landmark history of 100 years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history....
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Thoroughly Researched and Evidence-Based, but...
- By K on 05-24-21
By: Rashid Khalidi
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The Shadow War
- Inside Russia's and China's Secret Operations to Defeat America
- By: Jim Sciutto
- Narrated by: Jim Sciutto
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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CNN’s chief national security correspondent reveals the invisible fronts of 21st-century warfare and identifies the ongoing battles being waged - often without the public’s full knowledge - from disinformation campaigns to advanced satellite weaponry....
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Informative and interesting, but incomplete.
- By ZenBowman on 05-25-19
By: Jim Sciutto
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Blowout
- Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
- By: Rachel Maddow
- Narrated by: Rachel Maddow
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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In 2010, the words “earthquake swarm” entered the lexicon in Oklahoma. That same year, a trove of Michael Jackson memorabilia—including his iconic crystal-encrusted white glove—was sold at auction for over $1 million....
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chilling...
- By Kindle Customer on 10-12-19
By: Rachel Maddow
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The Gates of Gaza
- A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel's Borderlands
- By: Amir Tibon
- Narrated by: Amir Tibon
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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On the morning of Saturday, October 7, Amir Tibon and his wife were awakened by mortar rounds exploding near their home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz, a progressive Israeli settlement along the Gaza border. Soon, they were holding their two young daughters in the family’s reinforced safe room.
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Humanity
- By Marla Shuman on 10-27-24
By: Amir Tibon
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Target Tehran
- How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination – and Secret Diplomacy – to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a New Middle East
- By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, Ilan Evyatar
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Yonah Bob and Ilan Evyatar describe how Israel has used cyberwarfare, targeted assassinations, and sabotage of Iranian facilities to great effect, sometimes in cooperation with the United States.
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Couldn’t walk away !
- By ADAM on 01-10-24
By: Yonah Jeremy Bob, and others
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Lobbying for Zionism on Both Sides of the Atlantic
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 21 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1896, a Jewish state was a pipe dream. Today the overwhelming majority of Jews identify as Zionists. How did this happen?
By: Ilan Pappe
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The Genius of Israel
- The Surprising Resilience of a Divided Nation in a Turbulent World
- By: Dan Senor, Saul Singer
- Narrated by: Dan Senor
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Why do Israelis have among the world’s highest life expectancies and lowest rates of “deaths of despair” from suicide and substance abuse? Why is Israel’s population young and growing while all other wealthy democracies are aging and shrinking?....
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The richness of the Israeli culture and the brilliance of the IDF.
- By Jandee Camozzi on 12-06-23
By: Dan Senor, and others
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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The Palestine Laboratory
- How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World
- By: Antony Loewenstein
- Narrated by: Finlay Robertson
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
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Best-selling journalist Antony Loewenstein, author of Disaster Capitalism, uncovers a largely hidden world in a global investigation with secret documents, revealing interviews and on-the-ground reporting.
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The Lemon Tree
- By: Sandy Tolan
- Narrated by: Sandy Tolan
- Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1967, not long after the Six-Day War, three young Arab men ventured into the town of Ramle, in what is now Jewish Israel....
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Steeping The Lemon Tree
- By Faithfull Fan on 04-11-18
By: Sandy Tolan
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Jerusalem
- The Biography
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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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....
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In-depth and gripping history of 3,000 years
- By A reader on 12-16-11
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From Beirut to Jerusalem
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
- Length: 25 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Rich with anecdote, history, analysis, and autobiography, From Beirut to Jerusalem will continue to shape how we see the Middle East for many years to come.
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Games
- By Gina Samci on 07-10-24
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Secondhand Time
- The Last of the Soviets
- By: Svetlana Alexievich, Bela Shayevich - translator
- Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Mark Bramhall, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 22 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Swedish Academy awarded Svetlana Alexievich the Nobel Prize, it cited her for inventing "a new kind of literary genre", describing her work as "a history of emotions - a history of the soul"....
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The Heart, Soul & Iron Fist Of Russia
- By Sara on 02-22-17
By: Svetlana Alexievich, and others
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¡Gracias!
- By: Andrés Manuel López Obrador
- Narrated by: Adrián Ogazón
- Length: 30 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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El recuento de lo que significó el sexenio de la transformación histórica del país y de cómo el compromiso con la ciudadanía marcó el camino de una nueva...
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debe escucharse
- By Carlos Suarez on 04-07-24
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World on the Brink
- How America Can Beat China in the Race for the Twenty-First Century
- By: Dmitri Alperovitch, Garrett M. Graff - contributor
- Narrated by: Will Collyer
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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A leading national security expert lays out how the U. S. can keep its place as the world’s top superpower in the face of a rising China....
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a must read book!
- By Val Lendaro on 06-02-24
By: Dmitri Alperovitch, and others
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The Romanovs
- 1613-1918
- By: Simon Sebag Montefiore
- Narrated by: Simon Beale
- Length: 28 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the intimate story of 20 tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition....
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Scholarly but gripping
- By William on 06-16-16
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A Day in the Life of Abed Salama
- Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
- By: Nathan Thrall
- Narrated by: Peter Ganim
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Immersive and gripping, an intimate story of a deadly accident outside Jerusalem unravels a tangle of lives, loves, enmities, and histories over the course of one revealing, heartbreaking day.
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We Must Look Deeper into this Struggle
- By Amazon Customer on 10-22-23
By: Nathan Thrall
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The Last Punisher
- A SEAL Team Three Sniper's True Account of the Battle of Ramadi
- By: Kevin Lacz, Ethan E. Rocke, Lincy Lacz
- Narrated by: Timothy Phillips
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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The Last Punisher is a bold, no-holds-barred first-person account of the Iraq War. With wry humor and moving testimony, Kevin Lacz tells the story of his tour in Iraq with SEAL Team Three....
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Good story, poorly read
- By Dusty on 09-03-16
By: Kevin Lacz, and others
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The Return
- Fathers, Sons and the Land in Between
- By: Hisham Matar
- Narrated by: Hisham Matar
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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When Hisham Matar was a 19-year-old student in England, his father was kidnapped. One of the Qaddafi regime's most prominent opponents in exile, he was held in a secret prison....
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Touching memoir. Consider hard copy
- By Joschka Philipps on 02-22-18
By: Hisham Matar
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The Girl with Seven Names
- A North Korean Defector’s Story
- By: Hyeonseo Lee, David John
- Narrated by: Josie Dunn
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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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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Did not like narrator
- By Linda H. Andreae on 10-09-19
By: Hyeonseo Lee, and others
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Night of Power
- The Betrayal of the Middle East
- By: Robert Fisk
- Narrated by: Tim Bruce, Kit Griffiths
- Length: 23 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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An extraordinary chronicle of Fisk's trademark rigorous journalism, historical analysis and eyewitness reporting. Fully immersed in the Middle East and critical of the West's ongoing interference, Fisk was committed to uncovering complex and uncomfortable truths.
By: Robert Fisk
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Midnight in Moscow
- A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
- By: John J. Sullivan, General Jim Mattis
- Narrated by: John J. Sullivan, Matt Godfrey
- Length: 17 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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A memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation.
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FASCINATING & Troubling
- By Satoru on 09-26-24
By: John J. Sullivan, and others
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The Struggle for Taiwan
- A History of America, China, and the Island Caught Between
- By: Sulmaan Wasif Khan
- Narrated by: Austin Yang
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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From the White Terror to the Taiwan Straits Crises, from the normalization of Sino-American relations to Trump-era rising tensions, The Struggle for Taiwan charts the paths to our present predicament to show what futures might be possible.
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Good history, limited analysis
- By John on 08-18-24
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Fateful Triangle
- The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians (Updated Edition)
- By: Noam Chomsky
- Narrated by: Brian Jones
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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From its establishment to the present day, Israel has enjoyed a special position in the American roster of international friends. In Fateful Triangle, Noam Chomsky explores....
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Ethical Right to the Point
- By Not-Professor know-it-all on 09-23-15
By: Noam Chomsky
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October
- The Story of the Russian Revolution
- By: China Mieville
- Narrated by: John Banks
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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The renowned fantasy and science fiction writer China Mieville has long been inspired by the ideals of the Russian Revolution....
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The 20th Century's New Weird History
- By Darwin8u on 08-12-17
By: China Mieville
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
- By: Tony Judt
- Narrated by: Ralph Cosham
- Length: 43 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world’s most esteemed historians and intellectuals is a singular achievement.....
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Great book, but not terrific listening
- By History on 10-18-11
By: Tony Judt
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The Billion Dollar Spy
- A True Story of Cold War Espionage and Betrayal
- By: David E. Hoffman
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand comes the riveting story of the CIA's most valuable spy in the Soviet Union and an evocative portrait of the agency's Moscow station....
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Compelling as historical thriller, character study
- By Mr. Pointy on 08-25-15
By: David E. Hoffman
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City of Death
- Humanitarian Warriors in the Battle of Mosul
- By: Ephraim Mattos, Scott McEwen
- Narrated by: Ephraim Mattos
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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This is the true story of Ephraim Mattos, a former US Navy SEAL, and what he witnessed while volunteering as a frontline combat medic during the historic battle to retake Mosul from ISIS - the deadliest urban combat the world has seen since WWII....
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An inspirational tour de force
- By TN760USER on 10-25-18
By: Ephraim Mattos, and others
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The New China Playbook
- Beyond Socialism and Capitalism
- By: Keyu Jin
- Narrated by: Jenapher Zheng
- Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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World-renowned economist and professor at the London School of Economics Keyu Jin presents a myth-dispelling, comprehensive guide to the Chinese economy and its path to ascendancy....
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Excellent
- By Kindle Customer on 09-24-23
By: Keyu Jin
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Other Rivers
- A Chinese Education
- By: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: Peter Hessler
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Author Peter Hessler provides an intimate and revelatory account of two generations of students in China’s heartland, by an author who has observed the country’s tumultuous changes over the past quarter century.
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The author’s compassion and love for China and his Chinese students.
- By Neil Miller on 10-21-24
By: Peter Hessler
New releases
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Ten Myths About Israel
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
By: Ilan Pappe
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Hamas
- The Quest for Power
- By: Beverley Milton-Edwards, Stephen Farrell
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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With decades of combined experience researching and reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, and around the Middle East, Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell gained unrivaled access to Hamas.
By: Beverley Milton-Edwards, and others
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Diary of a Crisis
- Israel in Turmoil
- By: Saul Friedländer
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedländer began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests against Netanyahu's attempt to overhaul the judiciary. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against this threat to democracy. But the protests said nothing about the Palestinian question—the "elephant in the room," according to Friedländer, who resumed his diary after Hamas's October 7 assault on southern Israel.
By: Saul Friedländer
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Louder than the Lies
- Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love
- By: Ellie Yang Camp
- Narrated by: Carmilla Jo
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to be Asian American? How does our racialization in the United States shape our lives and our worldviews? With candor and care, Ellie Yang Camp, a Taiwanese American educator, offers a set of ideas and frameworks to guide us toward a more nuanced understanding of these questions. Drawing on her experiences and observations from history, conversations with Asian American peers, and lessons derived from other people of color, Camp unpacks the confusing dynamics that underlie anti-Asian stigmas and stereotypes in the US.
By: Ellie Yang Camp
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Who Will Defend Europe?
- An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
- By: Keir Giles
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defense holiday, outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly illusory 'peace dividend'. Now, after three decades of reducing armed forces and drawing down defense industries, Europe finds itself close to unprotected—while Russia is intent on continuing its war of expansion, and the United States is distracted and divided.
By: Keir Giles
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How to Lose a War
- The Story of America's Intervention in Afghanistan
- By: Amin Saikal
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as "unconquerable." On August 15, 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling the Taliban to return to power. Tens of thousands were killed in the long, unwinnable war, and millions more were displaced—leaving the future of Afghanistan hanging in the balance. Leading expert Amin Saikal traces the full story of America's intervention, from 9/11 to the present crisis.
By: Amin Saikal
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Ten Myths About Israel
- By: Ilan Pappe
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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The outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.
By: Ilan Pappe
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Hamas
- The Quest for Power
- By: Beverley Milton-Edwards, Stephen Farrell
- Narrated by: Hannibal Hills
- Length: 14 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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With decades of combined experience researching and reporting from the occupied West Bank and Gaza, Jerusalem, and around the Middle East, Beverley Milton-Edwards and Stephen Farrell gained unrivaled access to Hamas.
By: Beverley Milton-Edwards, and others
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Diary of a Crisis
- Israel in Turmoil
- By: Saul Friedländer
- Narrated by: Barry Abrams
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Diary of a Crisis explores the past tumultuous and traumatic year in Israel-Palestine. The eminent historian Saul Friedländer began a diary of Israeli politics in January 2023 as the country was convulsed by protests against Netanyahu's attempt to overhaul the judiciary. Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to demonstrate against this threat to democracy. But the protests said nothing about the Palestinian question—the "elephant in the room," according to Friedländer, who resumed his diary after Hamas's October 7 assault on southern Israel.
By: Saul Friedländer
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Louder than the Lies
- Asian American Identity, Solidarity, and Self-Love
- By: Ellie Yang Camp
- Narrated by: Carmilla Jo
- Length: 7 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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What does it mean to be Asian American? How does our racialization in the United States shape our lives and our worldviews? With candor and care, Ellie Yang Camp, a Taiwanese American educator, offers a set of ideas and frameworks to guide us toward a more nuanced understanding of these questions. Drawing on her experiences and observations from history, conversations with Asian American peers, and lessons derived from other people of color, Camp unpacks the confusing dynamics that underlie anti-Asian stigmas and stereotypes in the US.
By: Ellie Yang Camp
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Who Will Defend Europe?
- An Awakened Russia and a Sleeping Continent
- By: Keir Giles
- Narrated by: Keir Giles
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Who will defend Europe? The answer should be obvious: Europe should be able to defend itself. Yet, for decades, most of the continent enjoyed a defense holiday, outsourcing protection to the United States while banking an increasingly illusory 'peace dividend'. Now, after three decades of reducing armed forces and drawing down defense industries, Europe finds itself close to unprotected—while Russia is intent on continuing its war of expansion, and the United States is distracted and divided.
By: Keir Giles
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How to Lose a War
- The Story of America's Intervention in Afghanistan
- By: Amin Saikal
- Narrated by: Keval Shah
- Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1958, Richard Nixon described Afghanistan as "unconquerable." On August 15, 2021, he was proven right. After twenty years of intervention, US and NATO forces retreated, enabling the Taliban to return to power. Tens of thousands were killed in the long, unwinnable war, and millions more were displaced—leaving the future of Afghanistan hanging in the balance. Leading expert Amin Saikal traces the full story of America's intervention, from 9/11 to the present crisis.
By: Amin Saikal