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  • A Brief History of Japan cover art

    • A Brief History of Japan

    • 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: 22-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 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....

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    • 47 Ronin

    • By: John Allyn, Stephen Turnbull - foreword
    • Narrated by: David Shih
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 22-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • This is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master....

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    • A Brief History of the Samurai

    • Brief Histories
    • By: Jonathan Clements
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 07-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 396 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....

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    • Japan's Infamous Unit 731

    • Firsthand Accounts of Japan's Wartime Human Experimentation Program
    • By: Hal Gold, Yuma Totani - foreword
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 6 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 18-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 103 ratings

    • Some of the cruelest deeds of Japan's war in Asia did not occur on the battlefield, but in quiet, antiseptic medical wards in obscure parts of China. Far from front lines and prying eyes, Japanese doctors and their assistants subjected human guinea pigs to gruesome medical experiments....

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    • The Rape of Nanking

    • By: Iris Chang
    • Narrated by: Anna Fields
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 620 ratings
    • In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.....

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    • Strong Men Armed

    • The United States Marines Against Japan
    • By: Robert Leckie
    • Narrated by: Johnny Heller
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 55 ratings
    • As scout and machine-gunner for the First Marine Division, Leckie fought in all its engagements until his wounding at Peleliu....

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    • The Japanese

    • A History in Twenty Lives
    • By: Christopher Harding
    • Narrated by: Christopher Harding
    • Length: 16 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 30 ratings

    • Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of 20 remarkable individuals....

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    • The Railway Man

    • By: Eric Lomax
    • Narrated by: Bill Paterson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 18-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 275 ratings
    • A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942....

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    • The Japanese Mind

    • Understanding Contemporary Japanese Culture
    • By: Roger J. Davies, Osamu Ikeno
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings

    • Listeners of this book will gain a clear understanding of what makes the Japanese, and their society, tick....

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    • Tears in the Darkness

    • 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: 09-07-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • China and Japan

    • Facing History
    • By: Ezra F. Vogel
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 22 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

    • China and Japan have cultural and political connections that stretch back 1,500 years. But today, their relationship is strained. Ezra Vogel's China and Japan examines key turning points in Sino-Japanese history....

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    • Hiroshima

    • By: John Hersey
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 17-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 77 ratings

    • On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on that day. Told through the memories of survivors, this timeless, powerful and compassionate document has become a classic....

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    • 44 Days

    • 75 Squadron and the Fight for Australia
    • By: Michael Veitch
    • Narrated by: Michael Veitch
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • The epic World War II story of Australia's 75 Squadron - and the 44 days when these brave and barely-trained pilots fought alone against the Japanese....

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    • The Rise of Modern Japan

    • By: Mark J. Ravina, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Mark J. Ravina
    • Length: 5 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-11-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings

    • Noted Japan expert Professor Mark J. Ravina of the University of Texas at Austin covers the politics, economics, and culture of the island nation since World War II - a conflict that saw the end of Japan’s dream of regional conquest, which Professor Ravina calls Empire 1.0....

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    • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War

    • By: Mark E. Stille
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 11 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings

    • The Imperial Japanese Navy in the Pacific War details the Japanese ships which fought in the Pacific and examines the principles on which they were designed, how they were armed, when and where they were deployed, and how effective they were in battle....

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    • Tokyo Junkie

    • 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys... and Baseball
    • By: Robert Whiting
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 12 ratings

    • Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and now the most populous, sophisticated, and safe urban capital in the world....

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    • The Cactus Air Force

    • Air War Over Guadalcanal
    • By: Eric Hammel, Thomas McKelvey Cleaver
    • Narrated by: Adam Henderson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • In The Cactus Air Force, Pacific War expert Thomas McKelvey Cleaver worked closely with Eric to build on his collection of diary entries, interviews and first-hand accounts to create a vivid narrative of the struggle in the air over the island of Guadalcanal....

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    • Saipan

    • 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: 07-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 23 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....

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