Asia

India provides a dazzling new history of the Indian subcontinent and its diverse peoples in global context—from antiquity to today.

A narrative history of how Attila, Genghis Khan and the so-called barbarians of the steppes shaped world civilization. The barbarian nomads of the Eurasian steppes have played a decisive role in world history, but their achievements have gone largely unnoticed. These nomadic tribes have produced...

Dive deep into the enchanting world of Korean mythology with this comprehensive collection that brings together three classic works on Korea's rich tapestry of tales, legends, and folklore. Whether you're a lover of mythology or otherwise, this collection offers a treasure trove of stories....

The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in 25 years than the Romans did in 400....

The Art of War by Sun Tzu is much more than an ancient treatise on military strategy: it is a timeless guide on how to face challenges, make wise decisions, and win intelligently.

This landmark book, first published in 1978, remains one of the most influential books in the Social Sciences, particularly Ethnic Studies and Postcolonialism....

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War. Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the...

This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventional sense but an ambitious exploration of the story of a nation. It offers a revealing look at how events, people, and institutions are shaped by currents that sometimes reach back hundreds of years. The book covers the complex history...

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 world In 1965, the US...

Whispers in the Tall Grass is the second volume of Nick's riveting memoir of his time with MACV-SOG....

This Pulitzer Prize-winning history of World War II chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of the Japanese empire....

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...

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....

A recipient of two Purple Hearts gives listeners an inside view of US Army special forces through his own trial by fire during the Vietnam War.

Modern China has long been portrayed as Communists fighting for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Red Dawn Over China shows how unlikely the Party's victory was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union

Legendary 17th century swordsman Miyamoto Musashi’s exposition of sword fighting, strategy and zen philosophy....

A Green Beret's gripping memoir of American Special Forces in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War....

“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...

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....

The explosive first-hand account of America's secret history in Afghanistan With the publication of Ghost Wars, Steve Coll became not only a Pulitzer Prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of Bin Laden, and the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents...

“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 powerful and riveting new audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard. Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The...

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author John Hersey's seminal work of narrative nonfiction which has defined the way we think about nuclear warfare. “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima during World War II through...

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....

In this thrilling panorama of real-life events, the bestselling author of Empire of Pain investigates a secret world run by a surprising criminal: a charismatic middle-aged grandmother, who from a tiny noodle shop in New York’s Chinatown managed a multi-million dollar business smuggling people...

The history of modern China has long been portrayed as a tale of Communists fighting in the hills for freedom, gradually gaining popular support by taking land from the rich and giving it to the poor. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Red Dawn Over China reveals how unlikely the Party's victory actually was, had it not been for financial and military support from the Soviet Union.

Unit 731: The Japanese Auschwitz (The Underground Knowledge Series Book 9) exposes one of the darkest and least acknowledged chapters of the 20th Century – a covert Japanese concentration camp disguised as a military complex in Northeast China during World War Two. A place where science, ambition, and cruelty fused into industrialized murder. In the aftermath of that war, and indeed all wars before and since, few names evoke as much horror as Unit 731. Within its walls, prisoners were burnt, frozen, infected, dissected alive, and used as expendable test subjects in the pursuit of military...

Crime and Custom in Colonial Society brings together, for the first time in a single volume, the complete stories from In Court and Kampong and In Days That Are Dead by Hugh Clifford—newly introduced and contextualized by Graeme Newman for modern readers. Set in British Malaya at the height of empire, these vivid and often unsettling narratives explore a world where radically different systems of law, morality, and social obligation collide. In the kampong villages, life is governed by custom, kinship, and deeply rooted traditions. In the colonial courts, British officials impose formal ...

What if everything you thought you knew about race, geography, and human history was incomplete? For centuries, the world has been taught a simple narrative: Blackness belongs to Africa. Asia and the Middle East are something else. But history tells a different story. Across the forests of Southeast Asia, the deserts of Arabia, the coasts of India, and the islands of the Pacific live black populations whose presence challenges everything we think we know. They are dark-skinned. They are ancient. They are indigenous. And yet—they have been overlooked. Hidden in Plain Sight takes you on a ...

What truly happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the final days of World War II? Beyond the iconic mushroom cloud images, what do science and history reveal about the events that changed the world forever? In "20 Facts You Didn’t Know About Hiroshima and Nagasaki," a Ph.D. physicist provides a clear, rigorous, and accessible analysis of the nuclear bombings that marked the end of the War in the Pacific. Moving beyond complex physics, this book reaches into the profound human dimension of the catastrophe, answering questions that have persisted for generations. Why did Hiroshima return...

When archaeologists uncovered the untouched tomb of Lady Fu Hao in 1976, they didn’t just find treasure, they found a story that rewrote history. She wasn’t just a queen. She was a fierce general, a high priestess, and a leader lost to time… until now.

More than a mere warrior code, Bushido is the moral breath defining Japan. In this seminal work, Inazo Nitobe unveils the ethical roots of the samurai, blending Buddhist calm, Shinto loyalty, and Confucian morality. Through unyielding virtues like rectitude, honor, and stoic self-control, the author shows how the "Way of the Warrior" transcended the battlefield to mold a nation's soul. Though the feudal system has vanished, discover how its spirit—fragrant and delicate as the wild cherry blossom—remains vital in modern Japan.

To step into the world of the Red Dragon Society is to enter a realm where history is not written by the victors, but by those who survived in the darkness between the lines of official records. For centuries, this organization has existed as a shadow cast by the sun of the ruling dynasties, a parallel reality that has influenced the rise and fall of empires, the flow of global commerce, and the very structure of the modern underworld.

Standard English-language histories of World War Two have their own Mercator distortion: they make the Anglo-American experience loom enormous and shrink almost everything else. This book is the Robinson projection of WWII—it allocates narrative to each combatant nation in strict proportion to population. The result: China commands 27% of every chapter. India, at 378 million people, becomes the second-largest presence. The Soviet Union’s catastrophe dominates Europe. Small nations—Poland, Yugoslavia, Greece—receive sustained monthly attention. The familiar Anglo-...

In Hidden Japan, acclaimed author and environmentalist Alex Kerr leads us to the country's most secluded and enchanting corners—places where time seems to stand still and traditional culture endures. From thatched-roof villages in misty mountains to volcanic islands few have ever visited, Kerr's lyrical prose, narrated by the author himself, is brought to life in this immersive audio experience.

From writer Alan Caillou, author of the Tobin's War and Cabot Cain series. THERE IS ONLY THE PEARL American David Calib is sent by his father to pursue a man named Smith who has stolen from his father’s San Francisco business. His whereabouts is somewhere on Mindanao island in the southern part of the Philippines. It appeared to be merely a matter of finding Smith in order to have him extradited back to the U.S.. But the situation becomes more complicated when Calib finds out that Smith is on the island of Pangalau, the home of Gaston and Jules Ordue and their beautiful sister Andree. ...

開戦、退位、戦争責任、憲法、日米安保……「本音」ではどう思っていたのか?戦後80年 昭和100年いま明らかになる人間・昭和天皇の実像

The Contents of this audiobook are the collective ideas, thoughts and words of the great scholars of our time on the origin of our civilization from the very beginning, nay even before that, as hinted by the enlightened Rishis in the Vedas. I merely put them in one place and with profound humility beg forgiveness for any unintentional transgressions or inadequacies.

As the soldiers lifted me from the floor, my father's eyes locked with my own. For just a moment, I thought I saw a shadow of sadness across his face. But it disappeared as quickly as it had arrived, replaced with my father's look of perpetual determination. "You'll find me at the hospital," I...

The Ghadar Movement was conceived in 1913 in the United States of America by Lala Har Dayal, Kartar Singh Sarabha, Sohan Singh Bhakna, Harnam Singh Tundilat and others, all of them Indian immigrants in the US. Inspired by Tilak, Savarkar, Madam Cama, Shyamaji Krishnavarma and others, the Ghadar...