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To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- By: Sean McMeekin
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4
Award-winning historian Sean McMeekin investigates the evolution of Communism from a seductive ideal of a classless society into the ruling doctrine of tyrannical regimes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A great round up of Sean’s other titles
- By prairie thunder on 09-20-24
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1. To Overthrow the World
- The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism
- Narrated by: Robert Fass
- Length: 16 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 09-10-24
- Language: English
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Mao
- The Unknown Story
- By: Jung Chang, Jon Halliday
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,590
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,287
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,290
The most authoritative biography of Mao ever written....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fills many gaps! Very good..but!
- By Jene on 08-07-06
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2. Mao
- The Unknown Story
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 29 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-11-06
- Language: English
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The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- By: Michael Pillsbury
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 2,520
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 2,176
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,168
One of the US government's leading China experts reveals the hidden strategy fueling that country's rise - and how Americans have been seduced into helping China overtake us....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating perspective.
- By Rocky Mackintosh on 01-05-17
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3. The Hundred-Year Marathon
- China's Secret Strategy to Replace America as the Global Superpower
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 03-24-15
- Language: English
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Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
Between 1958 and 1962, 45 million Chinese people were worked, starved or beaten to death. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up with and overtake the West in less than fifteen years. It led to one of the world's greatest catastrophes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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how it describes the horrors with anecdotes and then uses stats to show bot only did it happen but also that it was common
- By Donald on 06-28-24
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4. Mao's Great Famine
- The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 05-23-24
- Language: English
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Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- By: Jung Chang
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,962
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,727
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,731
Few books have had such an impact: a popular best seller, a critically acclaimed history of China, a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty, and an uplifting story of bravery and survival....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Accurate, moving and chilling
- By David on 12-15-12
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5. Wild Swans
- Three Daughters of China
- Narrated by: Joy Osmanski
- Length: 22 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 12-13-11
- Language: English
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On China
- By: Henry Kissinger
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,383
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,147
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,140
In this sweeping and insightful history, Henry Kissinger turns for the first time at book length to a country he has known intimately for decades and whose modern relations with the West he helped shape....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another History of China
- By Elton on 09-23-11
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6. On China
- Narrated by: Nicholas Hormann
- Length: 20 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 05-17-11
- Language: English
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Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- By: Stephen R. Platt
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 848
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 718
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 714
As one of the most potent turning points in the country's modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today's China seeks to put behind it....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Balanced readable narrative about the Opium Wars
- By Carl A. Gallozzi on 09-05-18
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7. Imperial Twilight
- The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 17 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- By: Jonathan Kaufman
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 616
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 522
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 520
An epic multigenerational story of two rival dynasties who flourished in Shanghai and Hong Kong as 20th-century China surged into the modern era, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great story with careless flaws
- By pjdusa on 10-20-20
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8. The Last Kings of Shanghai
- The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-02-20
- Language: English
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The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5
Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of ‘The People’s Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine....
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9. The Cultural Revolution
- A People's History, 1962—1976
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 15 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 11-09-23
- Language: English
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The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- By: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 347
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 283
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 281
A mesmerizing narrative about the rise and fall of an unlikely international crime boss....
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5 out of 5 stars
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But Is It a Crime?
- By Roy on 08-23-09
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10. The Snakehead
- An Epic Tale of the Chinatown Underworld and the American Dream
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Release date: 07-24-09
- Language: English
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The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- By: Chen Jian, Odd Arne Westad
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall0 out of 5 stars 0
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Historians Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution....
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11. The Great Transformation
- China’s Road from Revolution to Reform
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin
- Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 10-29-24
- Language: English
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Emperor of the Seas
- Kublai Khan and the Making of China
- By: Jack Weatherford
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Genghis Khan built a formidable land empire, but he never crossed the sea. Yet by the time his grandson Kublai Khan had defeated the last vestiges of the Song empire and established the Yuan dynasty in 1279, the Mongols controlled the most powerful navy in the world.
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12. Emperor of the Seas
- Kublai Khan and the Making of China
- Narrated by: Mark Elstob
- Length: 11 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 09-26-24
- Language: English
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1421
- The Year China Discovered America
- By: Gavin Menzies
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 369
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 329
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 331
On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Would have been a good novel...
- By curtcannon on 05-08-19
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13. 1421
- The Year China Discovered America
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 12 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 01-28-14
- Language: English
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China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- By: Frank Dikötter
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 8
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story5 out of 5 stars 7
From the Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Mao's Great Famine comes a timely and compelling account of China in the wake of Chairman Mao....
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14. China After Mao
- The Rise of a Superpower
- Narrated by: Daniel York Loh
- Length: 14 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 07-06-23
- Language: English
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
- The Horse and the Rise of Empires
- By: David Chaffetz
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe....
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15. Raiders, Rulers, and Traders
- The Horse and the Rise of Empires
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 13 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 07-30-24
- Language: English
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Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- By: Alexander V. Pantsov, Steven I. Levine - translator
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 9
A biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures, Victorious in Defeat provides a detailed portrait of a man who ranks with Stalin, Roosevelt, Hitler, Churchill, and Gandhi as leaders who shaped our world....
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4 out of 5 stars
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A hard story to tell
- By A reader on 08-31-24
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16. Victorious in Defeat
- The Life and Times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975
- Narrated by: Rick Adamson
- Length: 25 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 08-01-23
- Language: English
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For the Glory
- Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr
- By: Duncan Hamilton
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 377
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 341
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Story5 out of 5 stars 340
The untold and inspiring story of Eric Liddell, hero of Chariots of Fire, from his Olympic medal to his missionary work in China to his last brave years in a Japanese work camp during WWII....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The challenge of a life lived for God's Glory
- By David on 06-30-16
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17. For the Glory
- Eric Liddell's Journey from Olympic Champion to Modern Martyr
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 05-10-16
- Language: English
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At the Edge of Empire
- A Family's Reckoning with China
- By: Edward Wong
- Narrated by: Edward Wong, Will Dao
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story5 out of 5 stars 14
An epic narrative that tells the story of modern China by braiding an intimate family memoir with contemporary reporting by a New York Times diplomatic correspondent and former Beijing bureau chief....
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4 out of 5 stars
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China’s Social and Economic Evolution Under Communism: Progress, Errors, and Implications of
- By Deborah on 09-09-24
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18. At the Edge of Empire
- A Family's Reckoning with China
- Narrated by: Edward Wong, Will Dao
- Length: 16 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-25-24
- Language: English
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The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- By: Sam Kleiner
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 509
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 452
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 449
The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation’s desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific....
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5 out of 5 stars
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This really happened.
- By Jason on 07-26-20
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19. The Flying Tigers
- The Untold Story of the American Pilots Who Waged a Secret War Against Japan
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 05-15-18
- Language: English
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The Devil and Communist China
- From Mao Down to Xi
- By: Steven W. Mosher
- Narrated by: Mike Romano
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
In The Devil and Communist China, Steven Mosher lays out in great detail the diabolical self-aggrandizement with deep roots in Chinese ancient political theory, called Legalism, which established the prototype for the totalitarian rule that the Chinese people suffer under today.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Stark history of China and its influence
- By Fr. S. on 07-28-24
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20. The Devil and Communist China
- From Mao Down to Xi
- Narrated by: Mike Romano
- Length: 10 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 03-27-24
- Language: English
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