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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 1,963 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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    • 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 2,732 ratings
    • A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

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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 684 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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    • An Infantryman's Life After World War II
    • By: E. B. Sledge, Stephen E. Ambrose
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 07-20-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 594 ratings
    • Picking up where his previous memoir leaves off, Sledge, a young marine, charts his own difficult passage to peace following his horrific experiences in the Pacific....

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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 467 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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    • 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 2,521 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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    • 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 37 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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    • Three Daughters of China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
    • Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-13-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,970 ratings
    • Few books have had such an impact: a popular best seller, a critically acclaimed history of China, a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty, and an uplifting story of bravery and survival....

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    • 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 171 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....

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    • A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
    • By: Isabel Sun Chao, Claire Chao
    • Narrated by: Rachel Yong, Claire Chao, Isabel Sun Chao
    • Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Meticulously researched, Remembering Shanghai follows five generations, from vibrant Shanghai to the bright lights of Hong Kong. By turns harrowing and heartwarming, this vivid memoir explores identity and loss against the epic backdrop of a country in turmoil....

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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 67 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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    • 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 240 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....

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    • The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
    • By: Jung Chang
    • Narrated by: Jolene Kim
    • Length: 16 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 433 ratings
    • Empress Dowager Cixi (1835–1908) is the most important woman in Chinese history. She ruled China for decades and brought a medieval empire into the modern age....

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    • A Memoir of Food, Fat, and Family
    • By: Rabia Chaudry
    • Narrated by: Rabia Chaudry
    • Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 378 ratings
    • From the bestselling author and host of the wildly popular Undisclosed podcast, a warm, intimate memoir about food, body image, and growing up in a loving but sometimes oppressively concerned Pakistani immigrant family....

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    • The Struggle for Power in Pakistan
    • By: Owen Bennett-Jones
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A major new investigation into the Bhutto family, examining their influence in Pakistan from the colonial era to the present day....

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    • Stories from Vietnam and Over the Fence
    • By: Joe Parnar, Robert Dumont
    • Narrated by: Arthur Flavell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 367 ratings
    • In the years since the Vietnam War, the elite unit known as SOG has spawned many myths, legends, and war stories. Special Forces medic Joe Parnar served with SOG during 1968 in FOB2/CCC near the tri-border area that gave them access to the forbidden areas....

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    • Four Pacific Campaigns with the Corps: The Memoirs of an Old Breed Marine
    • By: George Peto, Peter Margaritis - With
    • Narrated by: Paul Brion
    • Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 251 ratings
    • On September 15, 1944, the US First Marine Division landed on a small island in the Central Pacific called Peleliu as a prelude to the liberation of the Philippines. Among the first wave of Marines that hit the beach that day was 22-year-old George Peto....

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    • By: Arthur Wiknik Jr.
    • Narrated by: Todd McLaren
    • Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • An honest tour of the Vietnam War from the soldier's eye view... Nam-Sense is the brilliantly written story of a combat squad leader in the 101st Airborne Division. Arthur Wiknik was a 19-year-old kid from New England when he was drafted into the US Army in 1968....

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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 24 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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    • How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War
    • By: Elizabeth Becker
    • Narrated by: Lisa Flanagan
    • Length: 9 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 111 ratings
    • The long-buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war, You Don’t Belong Here fills a void in the history of women and of war....

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