Central Asia History

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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: 12-10-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 80 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....

    Regular price: £29.99

    • 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: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 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....

    Regular price: £16.99

    • 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: 17-01-23
    • Language: English
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    • With narration by Jim Lee, who tells the epic story of the rise and fall of the Silk Road empires....

    Regular price: £13.99

    • Exploring the Roof of the World
    • By: John Keay
    • Narrated by: Nick Holbek
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Himalaya is one of the world's most extraordinary geophysical, historical, environmental and social regions. Historian John Keay introduces us to the myriad mysteries of this vast, confounding and utterly fascinating corner of the planet....

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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: 18-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 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 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: 17-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • This audiobook narrated by Jim Lee provides a rich, discovery-filled account of how a forgotten empire transformed the ancient world....

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    • Why the Most Powerful Armies of Their Time Found Only Defeat or Shame in This Land of Endless Wars
    • By: John A. Tyler
    • Narrated by: Elliot Fitzpatrick
    • Length: 3 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
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    • During the spring and summer of 2021, global news reports were filled with the impending US/NATO withdrawal from Afghanistan. At best, it would be viewed as a stalemate, with an orderly transition to a stable, US-backed Afghan government. At worse, it would be looked upon as two decades....

    Regular price: £11.99

    • How the Mongols Changed the World
    • By: Marie Favereau
    • Narrated by: Anne Flosnik
    • Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 18 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....

    Regular price: £15.99

    • Inside the Secret World of Kazakhstan
    • By: Joanna Lillis
    • Narrated by: Polly Lee
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Dark Shadows is a compelling portrait of Kazakhstan, a country that is little known in the West....

    Regular price: £15.99

    • By: Peter Hopkirk
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 05-06-25
    • Language: English
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    • For nearly a century the two most powerful nations on earth, Victorian Britain and Tsarist Russia, fought a secret war in the lonely passes and deserts of Central Asia. Those engaged in this shadowy struggle called it 'The Great Game', a phrase immortalized by Kipling.

    Regular price: £16.99

    • The Soviet War in Afghanistan
    • By: Gregory Feifer
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 28-01-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 67 ratings
    • In gripping detail, Gregory Feifer vividly depicts the invasion of a volatile country that no power has ever successfully conquered....

    Regular price: £18.99

    • 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: 11-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 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....

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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: 05-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 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....

    Regular price: £12.99

    • 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: 27-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 136 ratings
    • The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan....

    Regular price: £16.99

    • The Central Asian Origins of Science in the Medieval World
    • By: Christopher I. Beckwith
    • Narrated by: Doug Kaye
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-12
    • Language: English
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    • Warriors of the Cloisters tells how key cultural innovations from Central Asia revolutionized medieval Europe and gave rise to the culture of science in the West....

    Regular price: £14.99

    • By: Colin Thubron
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 13 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 15-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 138 ratings
    • Colin Thubron undertakes a journey along the greatest land route on earth: the Silk Road....

    Regular price: £18.99

    • 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 55 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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    • A Cultural and Political History
    • By: Thomas Barfield
    • Narrated by: Robin Bloodworth
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-12
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 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....

    Regular price: £21.99