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Inside North Korea
- A BBC Radio Documentary Collection
- By: Becky Milligan, David Torrance, Sara Jane Hall
- Narrated by: David Torrance, Becky Milligan, Jonathan Griffin, and others
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a highly secretive totalitarian state - and one that poses an increasing threat to the West due to its rapidly expanding nuclear weapons programme. This unique three-part collection takes an in-depth look at the country, encompassing its history, the human stories behind the regime and its possible future.
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North Korea
- By Anonymous on 21-02-22
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Inside North Korea
- A BBC Radio Documentary Collection
- Narrated by: David Torrance, Becky Milligan, Jonathan Griffin, Natalia Zuo, Matthew Bannister
- Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 02-12-21
- Language: English
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Jungle Commandos
- The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
- By: Lucy Betteridge-Dyson
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Following the battles of Kohima and Imphal in mid-1944, the tide was turning against the Imperial Japanese Army. By the end of that fateful year, the Allies were preparing to launch an offensive in the Arakan region of Burma, to deliver a knockout blow to the increasingly desperate Japanese 28th Army. This fascinating new history details the actions of 3 Commando Brigade, who would spearhead this attack in a series of daring amphibious landings into the depths of the Burmese jungle, culminating in the brutal fight for Hill 170.
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A fantastic read
- By Gary T. on 04-11-25
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Jungle Commandos
- The Battle for Arakan, Burma 1945
- Narrated by: Catrin Walker-Booth
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories Are Heroic
- By: Joseph Kassabian
- Narrated by: Thomas Dukeman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance29
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During the peak of the Afghanistan War, a group of soldiers is dropped by helicopter into the remote mountains outside of Kandahar City. Mismanaged and overlooked by command, the squad must rely on each other to survive. Their mission is to train and advise the Afghan National Police and help rebuild the country of Afghanistan. The Afghan Police station they are assigned to live in is falling apart and disease-ridden.
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LLBD brought me here
- By Saoirse on 10-06-24
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The Hooligans of Kandahar: Not All War Stories Are Heroic
- Narrated by: Thomas Dukeman
- Length: 10 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-03-19
- Language: English
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The Journey to the West in Easy Chinese
- The Complete Novel Retold with Limited Vocabulary
- By: Jeff Pepper
- Narrated by: Chen Junyou, Jeff Pepper
- Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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“Journey to the West” is probably the most famous and best-loved novel in China and is considered one of the four great classical novels of Chinese literature. Its place in Chinese literature is roughly comparable to Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey in Western literature. Wikipedia sums up the book’s role perfectly, saying, “Enduringly popular, the tale is at once a comic adventure story, a humorous satire of Chinese bureaucracy, a spring of spiritual insight, and an extended allegory in which the group of pilgrims journeys towards enlightenment by the power and virtue of cooperation.”
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The Journey to the West in Easy Chinese
- The Complete Novel Retold with Limited Vocabulary
- Narrated by: Chen Junyou, Jeff Pepper
- Length: 36 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-01-23
- Language: Simplified Chinese
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Eat the Buddha
- The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town
- By: Barbara Demick
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1950, China claimed sovereignty over Tibet, leading to decades of unrest and resistance, defining the country today. In Eat the Buddha, Barbara Demick chronicles the Tibetan tragedy from Ngaba, a defiant town on the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau where dozens of Tibetans have shocked the world since 2009 by immolating themselves.
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Essential listening on an oppressed people
- By Amazon Customer on 08-02-24
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Eat the Buddha
- The Story of Modern Tibet Through the People of One Town
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 17-09-20
- Language: English
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies
- The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
- By: Jeffrey Cox
- Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
- Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall15
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Performance14
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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies, attacking Malaya with its fortress of Singapore, and taking resource-rich islands in the Pacific - Borneo, Sumatra, and Java - in their own blitzkrieg offensive. Allied losses in these early months after America's entry into the war were great, and among the most devastating were those suffered during the Java Sea Campaign.
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Fascinating
- By richstead on 12-09-25
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies
- The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
- Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
- Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 21-04-21
- Language: English
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Chindit
- By: Richard Rhodes James
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance35
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1943. Major-General Orde Wingate startles the military world by commanding a daring raid in the heart of Japanese-occupied Burma. But this was just the beginning. In the following year, Wingate spearheaded an even more ambitious operation, flying 10,000 men and 1,000 animals behind Japanese lines to disrupt communications and harass the Japanese forces. With close tactical support from Colonel Philip Cochran, Chindit was the name given to these operations and the men who made them happen. This is their story, told by one man who was at the heart of it all.
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Absolutely Brilliant
- By david willis on 29-06-22
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Chindit
- Narrated by: Al Murray
- Series: Second World War Voices, Book 1
- Length: 6 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 28-04-22
- Language: English
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- By: Andrei Lankov
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall232
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Performance201
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Andrei Lankov has gone where few outsiders have ever been. A native of the former Soviet Union, he lived as an exchange student in North Korea in the 1980s. He has studied it for his entire career, using his fluency in Korean and personal contacts to build a rich, nuanced understanding. In The Real North Korea, Lankov substitutes cold, clear analysis for the overheated rhetoric surrounding this opaque police state.
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Blows away the MSM narrative
- By Adrian J. Smith on 17-10-20
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The Real North Korea
- Life and Politics in the Failed Stalinist Utopia
- Narrated by: Steven Roy Grimsley
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 09-05-14
- Language: English
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Hagakure
- The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
- By: Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Alexander Bennett - Translator
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance12
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The comprehensive and accurate edition of the Hagakure is a must-have for serious martial artists or fans of samurai and the Bushido code.
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the voice of the narrator very helpful in my meditative contemplating.
- By Mephist O' Philes on 06-02-25
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Hagakure
- The Secret Wisdom of the Samurai
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 7 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance2,542
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The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade, and a blossoming of civilization.
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An enjoyable hagiography(?)
- By Nik Jewell on 16-05-18
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Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Davis, Jack Weatherford
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 16-02-10
- Language: English
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- By: Ezra F. Vogel
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall70
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Performance61
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Once described by Mao Zedong as a "needle inside a ball of cotton", Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late 20th century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Yet he also answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in 1989 at Tiananmen Square.
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Read the book instead
- By Furry Cheese on 22-06-21
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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 33 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-03-21
- Language: English
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The Accidental President
- 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
- Unabridged
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Overall26
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Performance24
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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, with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.
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Interesting introduction
- By G. A. Thart on 19-07-18
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The Accidental President
- Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World
- Narrated by: Tony Messano
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 24-10-17
- Language: English
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1434
- The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance13
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The brilliance of the Renaissance laid the foundation of the modern world. Textbooks tell us that it came about as a result of a rediscovery of the ideas and ideals of classical Greece and Rome. But now bestselling historian Gavin Menzies makes the startling argument that in the year 1434...
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What an interesting concept?
- By Christopher on 12-05-16
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1434
- The Year a Magnificent Chinese Fleet Sailed to Italy and Ignited the Renaissance
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 28-01-14
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Thailand
- Monarchy, War and Resilience: The Fascinating Story of the Gilded Kingdom at the Heart of Asia
- By: Richard A. Ruth
- Narrated by: Anne James
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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A Brief History of Thailand offers an engaging look at the country's last 250 years - from coups and violent massacres to the invention of Pad Thai in the 1930s. Listeners will learn the vibrant story of Thailand's emergence as a prosperous Buddhist state, its transformation from traditional kingdom to democratic constitutional monarchy, and its subsequent rise to prominence in Southeast Asian affairs. Thailand's dramatic history spans centuries of conflict, and this book recounts many of these fascinating episodes
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You don’t write history like this nowadays!
- By Dennis Sommers on 15-04-22
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A Brief History of Thailand
- Monarchy, War and Resilience: The Fascinating Story of the Gilded Kingdom at the Heart of Asia
- Narrated by: Anne James
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 29-03-22
- Language: English
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Bait
- The Battle of Kham Duc
- By: Gregory W. Sanders, James D. McLeroy
- Narrated by: James D. McLeroy
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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The strategic potential of the three-day attack of two NVA regiments on Kham Duc—a remote and isolated Army Special Forces camp—on the eve of the first Paris peace talks in May 1968, was so significant that former President Lyndon Johnson included it in his memoirs. This gripping, original, eyewitness narrative and thoroughly researched analysis of a widely misinterpreted battle at the height of the Vietnam War radically contradicts all the other published accounts of it.
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Interesting
- By BC11 on 09-02-26
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Bait
- The Battle of Kham Duc
- Narrated by: James D. McLeroy
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 06-12-22
- Language: English
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall106
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Performance90
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Brought to you by Penguin. The best-known modern Chinese fairy tale is the story of three sisters from Shanghai, who for most of the twentieth century were at the centre of power in China. It was sometimes said that 'One loved money, one loved power and one loved her country', but there was far...
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Reader should have been coached on pronunciation.
- By andrew james lilley on 05-11-19
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Big Sister, Little Sister, Red Sister
- Three Women at the Heart of Twentieth-Century China
- Narrated by: Joanna David
- Length: 13 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 31-10-19
- Language: English
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24 Hours in Ancient China
- By: Yijie Zhuyang
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance77
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Travel back to AD 17, during the fourth year of the reign of Wang Mang of the Han dynasty, a vibrant and innovative era full of conflicts and contradictions. But as different as the Han culture might have been to other great ancient civilisations, the inhabitants of ancient China faced the same problems as people have for time immemorial: earning enough money, coping with workplace dramas and keeping your home in order.
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Superb!
- By AL on 05-07-22
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24 Hours in Ancient China
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 25-06-20
- Language: English
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Destiny Disrupted
- A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
- By: Tamim Ansary
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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“A must read for anyone who wants to learn more about the history of the Islamic world” (San Francisco Chronicle) In Destiny Disrupted, Tamim Ansary tells the rich story of world history as it looks from a new perspective: with the evolution of the Muslim community at the center. His story...
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Balanced and fair
- By MSN on 09-10-25
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Destiny Disrupted
- A History of the World through Islamic Eyes
- Narrated by: Tamim Ansary
- Length: 18 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 29-04-25
- Language: English
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- By: Tim Hannigan
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth-largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand years and more.
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This book is wonderful
- By gi on 06-06-20
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A Brief History of Indonesia
- Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incredible Story of Southeast Asia's Largest Nation
- Narrated by: Derek Perkins
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 30-04-19
- Language: English
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A War of Empires
- Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941-45
- By: Robert Lyman
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall128
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Performance113
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In 1941 and 1942, the British and Indian armies were brutally defeated and Japan reigned supreme in its newly conquered territories throughout Asia. But change was coming. New commanders were appointed, significant training together with restructuring took place and new tactics were developed. A War of Empires by acclaimed historian Robert Lyman expertly retells these coordinated efforts and describes how a new volunteer Indian Army, rising from the ashes of defeat, would ferociously fight to turn the tide of war.
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Excellent military history
- By Amazon Customer on 30-01-22
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A War of Empires
- Japan, India, Burma & Britain: 1941-45
- Narrated by: Roger May
- Length: 25 hrs and 21 mins
- Release date: 16-11-21
- Language: English
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