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    • A History of Japanese War Crimes During World War II
    • By: Lord Russell of Liverpool
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 02-13-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • The war crimes trials at Nuremberg and Tokyo meted out the Allies' official justice; Lord Russell of Liverpool's sensational bestselling books on the Axis' war crimes decided the public's opinion....

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    • By: John W. Dower
    • Narrated by: Edward Lewis
    • Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 436 ratings
    • This illuminating study explores the ways in which the defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society....

    $27.48 or free with 30-day trial

    • Revised Edition
    • By: R. H. P. Mason, J. G. Caiger
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 13 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 11-27-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 296 ratings
    • A classic of Japanese history, this audiobook is the preeminent work on the history of Japan. Newly revised and updated, A History of Japan is a single-volume complete history of the nation of Japan....

    $21.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • 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 41 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....

    $34.39 or free with 30-day trial

    • Samurai, Shogun and Zen: The Extraordinary Story of the Land of the Rising Sun
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Julian Elfer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 379 ratings
    • This fascinating history tells the story of the people of Japan, from ancient teenage priest-queens to teeming hordes of salarymen, a nation that once sought to conquer China, yet also shut itself away for two centuries in self-imposed seclusion....

    $17.19 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Decline and Fall of the Japanese Empire, 1936-1945
    • By: John Toland
    • Narrated by: Tom Weiner
    • Length: 41 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 3,075 ratings
    • This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

    $25.76 or free with 30-day trial

    • Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
    • By: A. J. Baime
    • Narrated by: Tony Messano
    • Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 2,340 ratings
    • The dramatic, pulse-pounding story of Harry Truman's first four months in office, when this unlikely president had to take on Germany, Japan, Stalin, and the atomic bomb....

    $29.95 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Autobiography of Henry Pu Yi, Last Emperor of China
    • By: Paul Kramer, Henry Pu Yi
    • Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • In 1908, at the age of two, Henry Pu Yi ascended to become the last emperor of the centuries-old Manchu dynasty....

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    • MacArthur's Triumph in Japan
    • By: Seymour Morris
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • He is the most-decorated general in American history - and the only five-star general to receive the Medal of Honor. Yet Douglas MacArthur’s greatest victory was not in war but in peace....

    $22.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Battle for Japan, 1944 - 45
    • By: Max Hastings
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 27 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 703 ratings
    • In his critically acclaimed Armageddon, Hastings detailed the last twelve months of the struggle for Germany. Here, in what can be considered a companion volume, he covers the horrific story of the war against Japan....

    $29.25 or free with 30-day trial

    • Bravery, Survival, and the True Story of the Deadliest Submarine in World War II
    • By: Tom Clavin
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-25
    • Language: English
    • 5.0 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The true story of the deadliest submarine in World War II and the courageous captain who survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of the enemy. There was one submarine that outfought all other boats in the Silent Service in World War II: the USS Tang. Captain Richard Hetherington O’Kane...

    $20.24 or free with 30-day trial

    • From Mythical Origins to Pop Culture Powerhouse: The Global Drama of an Ancient Island Nation
    • By: Lesley Downer
    • Narrated by: Lucy Rayner
    • Length: 6 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.0 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Zen, haiku, martial arts, sushi, anime, manga, film, video games . . . Japanese culture has long enriched our Western way of life. Yet from a Western perspective, Japan remains a remote island country that has long had a complicated relationship with the outside world.

    $17.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • Guadalcanal -- The World War II Battle That Turned the Tide of War
    • By: Joseph Wheelan
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 570 ratings
    • Midnight in the Pacific is both a sweeping narrative and a compelling drama of individual marines, soldiers, and sailors caught in the crosshairs of history....

    $35.09 or free with 30-day trial

    • Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight for New Guinea 1942-1945
    • By: James P. Duffy
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • New Guinea was a battleground far more deadly than the most fanatical of enemy troops....

    $18.05 or free with 30-day trial

    • The Battle that Doomed Japan in World War II
    • By: James H. Hallas
    • Narrated by: Tim Dixon
    • Length: 22 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 01-07-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 373 ratings
    • The story of the Battle of Saipan has it all. Marines at war: on Pacific beaches, in hellish volcanic landscapes, under a commander known as "Howlin' Mad." Naval combat: carriers battling carriers from afar, fighters downing Japanese aircraft, submarines sinking carriers....

    $23.10 or free with 30-day trial

    • How Japan's Pop Culture Conquered the World
    • By: Matt Alt
    • Narrated by: Matt Alt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured - and transformed - the world’s imagination....

    $20.25 or free with 30-day trial

    • War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
    • By: Ian W. Toll
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Series: The Pacific War Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 2,955 ratings
    • The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire island by island....

    $30.95 or free with 30-day trial

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    • History of Imperial Japan's Mass Murder and Rape During World War II
    • By: Bryan Mark Rigg PhD, Andrew Roberts - foreword
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Japan's Holocaust combines research conducted in over eighteen research facilities in five nations to explore Imperial Japan's atrocities from 1927 to 1945 during its military expansions and reckless campaigns throughout Asia and the Pacific.

    $25.79 or free with 30-day trial

    • Brief Histories
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 02-07-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 431 ratings
    • From a leading expert in Japanese history, this is one of the first full histories of the art and culture of the Samurai warrior....

    $23.54 or free with 30-day trial