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Ten Days That Shook the World
- By: John Reed
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
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A journalist writing in the first flush of revolutionary enthusiasm, John Reed gives a gripping record of the events in Petrograd in November 1917, when Lenin and the Bolsheviks finally seized power. Containing verbatim reports both of speeches by leaders and the chance comments of bystanders, set against an idealized backcloth of the proletariat, soldiers, sailors, and peasants uniting to throw off oppression, Reed's account is the product of passionate involvement and remains a classic of reporting.
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fantastic Audiobook
- By Owen McCracken on 15-12-16
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Ten Days That Shook the World
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-12-16
- Language: English
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Red Sorghum
- A Novel of China
- By: Mo Yan, Howard Goldblatt - translator
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty, as the Chinese battle both Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. A legend in China, where it won major literary awards and inspired an Oscar-nominated film directed by Zhang Yimou, Red Sorghum is a book in which fable and history collide to produce fiction that is entirely new—and unforgettable.
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Brutal, beautiful, enduring
- By Sandy on 08-05-24
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Red Sorghum
- A Novel of China
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 15 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 09-12-13
- Language: English
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Tiger Tracks
- The Classic Panzer Memoir
- By: Wolfgang Faust
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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Wolfgang Faust was the driver of a Tiger I tank with the Wehrmacht Heavy Panzer Battalions, seeing extensive combat action on the Eastern Front in 1943-45. This memoir is his brutal and deeply personal account of the Russian Front's appalling carnage. Depicting a running tank engagement lasting 72 hours, Faust describes how his Tiger unit fought pitched battles in the snows of Western Russia against the full might of the Red Army.
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Fictional account, not true history.
- By Border Collie on 27-06-16
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Tiger Tracks
- The Classic Panzer Memoir
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 19-04-16
- Language: English
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The Last Panther
- Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945
- By: Wolfgang Faust
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
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While the Battle of Berlin in 1945 is widely known, the horrific story of the Halbe Kessel remains largely untold. In April 1945, victorious Soviet forces encircled 80,000 men of the German 9th Army in the Halbe area, South of Berlin, together with many thousands of German women and children. The German troops, desperate to avoid Soviet capture, battled furiously to break out toward the West, where they could surrender to the comparative safety of the Americans.
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An excellent book!
- By Amazon Customer on 05-10-19
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The Last Panther
- Slaughter of the Reich - The Halbe Kessel 1945
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 19-04-16
- Language: English
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Shanghai 1937
- Stalingrad on the Yangtze
- By: Peter Harmsen
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
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This deeply researched book describes one of the great forgotten battles of the 20th century. At its height it involved nearly a million Chinese and Japanese soldiers, while sucking in three million civilians as unwilling spectators and, often, victims. It turned what had been a Japanese adventure in China into a general war between the two oldest and proudest civilizations of the Far East. Ultimately, it led to Pearl Harbor and to seven decades of tumultuous history in Asia. The Battle of Shanghai was a pivotal event that helped define and shape the modern world.
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Shanghai 1937
- Stalingrad on the Yangtze
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 23-04-14
- Language: English
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A Boy's Own Story
- A Novel
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
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Originally published in 1982 as the first of Edmund White's trilogy of autobiographical novels, A Boy's Own Story became an instant classic for its pioneering portrayal of homosexuality. The audiobook's unnamed narrator, growing up during the 1950s, is beset by aloof parents, a cruel sister, and relentless mocking from his peers, compelling him to seek out works of art and literature as solace-and to uncover new relationships in the struggle to embrace his own sexuality.
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awful
- By alex on 17-08-15
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A Boy's Own Story
- A Novel
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 16-07-14
- Language: English
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
- By: Evan Osnos
- Narrated by: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
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Winner of the National Book Award 2014 A young army captain who risked execution to swim from free-market Taiwan to Communist China. A barber who made $150 million in the gambling dens of Macau. The richest woman in China, a recycling tycoon known as the 'Wastepaper Queen'. Age of Ambition describes some of the billion individual lives that make up China's story - one that unfolds on remote farms, in glittering mansions, and in the halls of power of the world’s largest authoritarian regime.
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Really interesting listen
- By George on 03-03-16
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Age of Ambition
- Chasing Fortune, Truth and Faith in the New China
- Narrated by: Evan Osnos, George Backman
- Length: 16 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 17-12-15
- Language: English
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Tracking Bodhidharma
- A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture
- By: Andy Ferguson
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
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The life of Bodhidharma, the founder of Zen Buddhism, has, with the passing of time, been magnified to the scale of myth, turning history into the stuff of legend. Known as the First Patriarch, Bodhidharma brought Zen from South India into China in 500 CE, changing the country forever. In Tracking Bodhidharma, Andrew Ferguson recreates the path of Bodhidharma, traveling through China to the places where the First Patriarch lived and taught. This sacred trail takes Ferguson deep into ancient China.
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Excellent in every way.
- By Giles on 06-01-14
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Tracking Bodhidharma
- A Journey to the Heart of Chinese Culture
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 16 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 28-02-13
- Language: English
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty
- A Novel
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
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Moving from a Midwestern college to the Stonewall Tavern on the night of the first gay uprising - and populated by eloquent queens, butch poseurs, and a fearfully incompetent shrink - The Beautiful Room is Empty conflates the acts of coming out and coming of age.
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The Beautiful Room Is Empty
- A Novel
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 16-07-14
- Language: English
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The Farewell Symphony
- A Novel
- By: Edmund White
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
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Named for the work by Haydn in which the instrumentalists leave the stage one after another until only a single violin remains playing, this is the story of a man who has outlived most of his friends. Having reached the six-month anniversary of his lover's death, he embarks on a journey of remembrance that will recount his struggle to become a writer and his discovery of what it means to be a gay man.
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The title says it all.
- By CF on 12-06-23
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The Farewell Symphony
- A Novel
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 20 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 16-07-14
- Language: English
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Deng Xiaoping
- A Revolutionary Life
- By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
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Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socioeconomic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion changes that would dramatically transform China's economy, society, and position in the world. Three decades later we are living with the results.
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Excellent
- By Jon lanģley on 20-10-21
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Deng Xiaoping
- A Revolutionary Life
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 21 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-06-15
- Language: English
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The Four Books
- By: Yan Lianke
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
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In the 99th district of a sprawling labour camp, the Author, Musician, Scholar, Theologian and Technician - and hundreds just like them - are undergoing Re-education, to restore their revolutionary zeal and credentials. In charge of this process is the Child, who delights in draconian rules, monitoring behaviour and confiscating treasured books. But when bad weather arrives, followed by the ‘three bitter years’, the intellectuals are abandoned by the regime and left on their own to survive.
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The Four Books
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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Singapore Is Not an Island
- Views on Singapore Foreign Policy
- By: Bilahari Kausikan
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Small states are always vulnerable. It is this sense of vulnerability that keeps Singapore alert. As a small country in Southeast Asia seeking to survive and prosper, Singapore cannot be ordinary. It must be extraordinary. Otherwise, why would anyone want to deal with Singapore rather than with larger countries? Herein lies the central challenge for Singapore in every area, including foreign policy. Singapore Is Not An Island: Views on Singapore Foreign Policy is a compilation of essays and public speeches by Bilahari Kausikan over the last 25 years. His is a frank and dispassionate assessment of the geopolitical realities to date.
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Singapore Is Not an Island
- Views on Singapore Foreign Policy
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-08-18
- Language: English
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Strange Stones
- By: Peter Hessler
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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Full of unforgettable figures and an unrelenting spirit of adventure, Strange Stones is a far-ranging, thought-provoking collection of Peter Hessler’s best reportage - a dazzling display of the powerful storytelling, shrewd cultural insight, and warm sense of humor that are the trademarks of his work. Over the last decade, as a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of three books, Peter Hessler has lived in Asia and the United States, writing as both native and knowledgeable outsider in these two very different regions.
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Strange Stones
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 01-03-13
- Language: English
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In Manchuria
- A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
- By: Michael Meyer
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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For three years Meyer rented a home in the rice-farming community of Wasteland, hometown of his wife's family, and their personal saga mirrors the tremendous change most of rural China is undergoing in the form of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and constructed high-rise apartments into which farmers can move in exchange for their land rights.
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China's Northeast. An undiscovered gem
- By Adrian J. Smith on 17-09-17
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In Manchuria
- A Village Called Wasteland and the Transformation of Rural China
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 17-02-15
- Language: English
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume One: The Gathering)
- By: David Tod Roy - translator
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
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In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form - not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.
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A borring classic
- By Kamil Symela on 30-10-22
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume One: The Gathering)
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Series: The Golden Lotus, Book 1
- Length: 17 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-04-14
- Language: English
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In the Company of Bears
- What Black Bears Have Taught Me About Intelligence and Intuition
- By: Benjamin Kilham
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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Imagine raising an orphaned bear cub, carefully reintroducing her to the wild, then being welcomed back, almost daily, to observe her wild world for more than 17 years. Imagine visiting her in her feeding spots, watching her with her mates and her young, peering into her den, and, over time, observing the lives of all the other wild bears in her territory and surrounding ones. That is what happened to Ben Kilham.
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Brilliant.
- By MRS JULIE A FLETCHER on 08-01-15
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In the Company of Bears
- What Black Bears Have Taught Me About Intelligence and Intuition
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 31-10-14
- Language: English
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume Two, The Rivals)
- By: David Tod Roy - translator
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
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In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of narrative art--not only from a specifically Chinese perspective but in a world-historical context.
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The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei (Volume Two, The Rivals)
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Series: The Golden Lotus, Book 2
- Length: 19 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 21-04-14
- Language: English
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Kosher Chinese
- Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
- By: Michael Levy
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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In September of 2005, the Peace Corps sent Michael Levy to teach English in the heart of China's heartland. His hosts in the city of Guiyang found additional uses for him: resident expert on Judaism, romantic adviser, and provincial basketball star, to name a few. His account of overcoming vast cultural differences to befriend his students and fellow teachers is by turns poignant and laugh-out-loud funny.
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A thoughtful look at contemporary China
- By dinamit on 10-04-15
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Kosher Chinese
- Living, Teaching, and Eating with China's Other Billion
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 13-09-12
- Language: English
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The China Collectors
- America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures
- By: Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
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Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback, and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent.
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The China Collectors
- America's Century-Long Hunt for Asian Art Treasures
- Narrated by: George Backman
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 11-08-15
- Language: English
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