Asian in History & Nonfiction Audiobooks

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Hiroshima

The Last Witnesses

by M. G. Sheftall ...

Narrated by Brian Nishii ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Embers
Unabridged

17 hours 6 min

**One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

**One of Washington Post's 50 Notable Works of Nonfiction From 2024The first volume in a two-book series about each of the atomic bomb drops that ended the Pacific War based on years of irreplicable personal interviews with survivors to tell a story of devastation and resilience**In this vividly rendered historical narrative, M. G. Sheftall layers the stories of hibakusha—the Japanese word for
... Read more
Audiobook

Tunnel 29

The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall

by Helena Merriman ...

Narrated by Helena Merriman ...

Unabridged

9 hours 33 min

A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired.In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

A "riveting" (Wall Street Journal) book tells the unbelievable true story of an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall--the people who built it, the spy who betrayed it, and the media event it inspired.In September 1961, at the height of the Cold War, 22-year-old Joachim Rudolph escaped from East Germany, one of the world's most brutal regimes. He'd risked everything to do it. Then, a few months
... Read more
Audiobook

Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45

by Barbara W. Tuchman ...

Narrated by Pam Ward ...

Unabridged

29 hours 2 min

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe,” Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, “one of the historian’s most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating ... Read more

$54.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

In this Pulitzer Prize–winning biography, Barbara Tuchman explores American relations with China through the experiences of one of our men on the ground. In the cantankerous but level-headed “Vinegar Joe,” Tuchman found a subject who allowed her to perform, in the words of the National Review, “one of the historian’s most envied magic acts: conjoining a fine biography of a man with a fascinating
... Read more
Audiobook

Road to Surrender

Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II

by Evan Thomas ...

Narrated by Robert Fass ...

Unabridged

7 hours 51 min

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

A riveting, immersive account of the agonizing decision to use nuclear weapons against Japan—a crucial turning point in World War II and geopolitical history—with you-are-there immediacy by the New York Times bestselling author of Ike’s Bluff and Sea of Thunder.“As Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer shows, the shockwaves reverberate still. The veteran biographer Evan Thomas now enters the
... Read more
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Judgment at Tokyo

World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia

by Gary J. Bass ...

Narrated by Simon Vance ...

Unabridged

31 hours 23 min

**WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS • ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST • 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER • 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, AND AIR MAIL • 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS BY THE TELEGRAPH • MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE ... Read more

$48.99 CAD

**WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ROSS BOOK AWARD FROM THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS • ACCLAIMED AS ONE OF THE YEAR’S 10 BEST BOOKS BY THE WASHINGTON POST • 12 ESSENTIAL NONFICTION BOOKS BY THE NEW YORKER • 100 NOTABLE BOOKS BY THE NEW YORK TIMES • BEST BOOKS BY THE ECONOMIST, FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT, AND AIR MAIL • 10 ESSENTIAL BOOKS BY THE TELEGRAPH • MARK LYNTON HISTORY PRIZE
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Red Notice

A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice

by Bill Browder ...

Narrated by Adam Grupper ...

Unabridged

14 hours 7 min

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. ... Read more

$35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds.
... Read more
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The Romanovs

1613-1918

by Simon Sebag Montefiore ...

Narrated by Simon Russell Beale ...

Unabridged

28 hours 41 min

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

The Romanovs were the most successful dynasty of modern times, ruling a sixth of the world’s surface for three centuries. How did one family turn a war-ruined principality into the world’s greatest empire? And how did they lose it all?This is the intimate story of twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Simon
... Read more
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Midnight in Chernobyl

The Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham ...

Narrated by Jacques Roy ...

Unabridged

13 hours 55 min

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov... ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

One of AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of 2019!A New York Times Best Book of the YearA Time Best Book of the YearA Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Year2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence Winner**From journalist Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling “account that reads almost like the script for a mov...
... Read more
Audiobook

Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang ...

Narrated by Joy Osmanski ...

Unabridged

22 hours 52 min

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an ... Read more

$46.99 CAD

The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history—a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao’s impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an
... Read more
Audiobook

Rasputin

The Downfall of the Romanovs

by Antony Beevor ...

Narrated by Rob Heaps ...

Unabridged

11 hours 13 min

**"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy.”—Dan Jones, The Sunday TimesFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world**When Russia's Dowager ... Read more

$32.00 CAD

**"A beautifully written, clear-eyed biography of a very Russian tragedy.”—Dan Jones, The Sunday TimesFrom one of our most acclaimed historians, a major new biography of one of history’s most disturbing, dubious masterminds, showing how a Siberian peasant, through his seduction of the imperial household, contributed to the collapse of the greatest autocracy in the world**When Russia's Dowager
... Read more
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El Arte de la Guerra Sun Tzu en Español - Edición Completa: La Nueva Traducción Moderna (Traducida y Anotada)

by Sun Tzu ...

Narrated by Agustin Dominguez ...

Unabridged

5 hours 9 min

Descubre el clásico intemporal que ha inspirado a líderes, emprendedores y estrategas durante más de 2,000 años, ahora en una versión moderna y accesible para todos.El Arte de la Guerra de Sun Tzu es mucho más que un antiguo tratado de estrategia militar: es una guía eterna sobre cómo enfrentar desafíos, tomar decisiones sabias y ganar con inteligencia. Esta edición completa, traducida al español ... Read more

$20.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Descubre el clásico intemporal que ha inspirado a líderes, emprendedores y estrategas durante más de 2,000 años, ahora en una versión moderna y accesible para todos.El Arte de la Guerra de Sun Tzu es mucho más que un antiguo tratado de estrategia militar: es una guía eterna sobre cómo enfrentar desafíos, tomar decisiones sabias y ganar con inteligencia. Esta edición completa, traducida al español
... Read more
Audiobook

A Frozen Hell

The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940

by William R. Trotter ...

Narrated by Matthew Lloyd Davies ...

Unabridged

11 hours 56 min

In 1939, tiny Finland waged war—the kind of war that spawns legends—against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet their epic struggle has been largely ignored. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses—these are the elements of both the Finnish victory and a gripping tale of war. ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

In 1939, tiny Finland waged war—the kind of war that spawns legends—against the mighty Soviet Union, and yet their epic struggle has been largely ignored. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century's true military geniuses—these are the elements of both the Finnish victory and a gripping tale of war.
... Read more
Audiobook

In Order to Live

A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom

by Yeonmi Park ...

Narrated by Eji Kim ...

Unabridged

9 hours 38 min

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

**“I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.” —Yeonmi Park“One of the most harrowing stories I have ever heard—and one of the most inspiring.” —The Bookseller**In In Order to Live, Yeonmi Park shines a light not just into the darkest corners of life in North Korea, describing the deprivation and deception she endured and which millions
... Read more
Audiobook

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

25 hours 56 min

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” ... Read more

$66.99 CAD

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.”
... Read more
Audiobook

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...

Narrated by Ignat Solzhenitsyn ...

Abridged

21 hours 53 min

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time“It is impossible to name a book that had a greater effect on the political and moral consciousness of the late twentieth century.” —David Remnick, The New YorkerThe Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature, the searing record of four decades of terror and oppression, in one abridged volume (authorized by the author). Features a
... Read more
Audiobook

The Jakarta Method

Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

by Vincent Bevins ...

Narrated by Tim Paige ...

Unabridged

9 hours 58 min

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ“A radical new history of the United States abroad” (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the worldIn 1965, the US government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians—eliminating the
... Read more
Audiobook

Behind the Beautiful Forevers

Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity

by Katherine Boo ...

Narrated by Sunil Malhotra ...

Unabridged

8 hours 16 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY • AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADES“Inspiring . . . extraordinary . . . [Katherine Boo] shows us how people in the most desperate
... Read more
Audiobook

On Tyranny: Expanded Audio Edition

Updated with Twenty New Lessons from Russia's War on Ukraine

by Timothy Snyder ...

Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

Unabridged

9 hours 45 min

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the ... Read more

$20.99 CAD

The #1 New York Times bestseller, now in an expanded audiobook edition that includes detailed historical context for the democracy-threatening Ukrainian conflict and a call to action for modern times.This edition includes the bestselling original essay collection On Tyranny, read by the author.In this exclusive audiobook edition, which includes eight hours of new content, Snyder combines the
... Read more
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Our Oriental Heritage

by Will Durant ...

Narrated by Robin Field ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Story of Civilization
Unabridged

50 hours 17 min

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine, and mummification more than 3,500 years ... Read more

$41.99 CAD

The first volume of Will Durant's Pulitzer Prize–winning series, Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization, Volume I chronicles the early history of Egypt, the Middle East, and Asia. In this masterful work, readers will encounter:Sumeria, birthplace of the first cities and written lawsthe Egyptians, who perfected monumental architecture, medicine, and mummification more than 3,500 years
... Read more
Audiobook

Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman

by Robert K. Massie ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

Unabridged

23 hours 52 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs“[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—NewsweekONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An “absorbing” (Los Angeles Times) biography of one of the most remarkable, powerful, and captivating women in Russian history—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Peter the Great, Nicholas and Alexandra, and The Romanovs“[A] compelling portrait not just of a Russian titan, but also of a flesh-and-blood woman.”—NewsweekONE OF ESQUIRE’S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL
... Read more
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Gulag

A History

by Anne Applebaum ...

Narrated by Laural Merlington ...

Unabridged

27 hours 42 min

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, ... Read more

$24.72 CAD

The Gulag—a vast array of Soviet concentration camps that held millions of political and criminal prisoners—was a system of repression and punishment that terrorized the entire society, embodying the worst tendencies of Soviet communism. In this magisterial and acclaimed history, Anne Applebaum offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution,
... Read more
Audiobook

The Future Is History (National Book Award Winner)

How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia

by Masha Gessen ...

Narrated by Masha Gessen ...

Unabridged

16 hours 45 min

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD**The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Award-winning journalist Masha ... Read more

$34.99 CAD

**WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITINGWINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTIONWINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD**The essential journalist and bestselling biographer of Vladimir Putin reveals how, in the space of a generation, Russia surrendered to a more virulent and invincible new strain of autocracy.Award-winning journalist Masha
... Read more
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The Rape of Nanking

The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

by Iris Chang ...

Narrated by Anna Fields ...

Unabridged

8 hours 4 min

In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the ... Read more

$23.99 CAD

In December 1937, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred in the capital of China. The Japanese army swept into Nanking and not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered half of the city’s remaining population, some 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the account of this atrocity was denied by the
... Read more
Audiobook

The Gulag Archipelago Volume 3

An Experiment in Literary Investigation

by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn ...

Narrated by Frederick Davidson ...

Unabridged

21 hours 55 min

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“It is impossible ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —TimeVolume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own release after eight years. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum.“The greatest and most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever leveled in modern times.” —George F. Kennan“It is impossible
... Read more

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