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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- By: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, and others
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall51
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Performance47
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
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Biased
- By R Halls on 09-03-18
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-02-14
- Language: English
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47 Ronin
- By: John Allyn Jr., Stephen Turnbull - foreword
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall125
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Performance111
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Story112
For those looking for the real story behind the fictionalized movie account of the 47 Ronin story, this is the definitive, fascinating account of this unforgettable tale of a band of samurai who defied the Emperor to avenge the disgrace and death of their master, and faced certain death as a result. It led to one of the bloodiest episodes in Japanese history, and in the process, created a new set of heroes in Japan.
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A Great Story
- By JOD on 27-05-24
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47 Ronin
- Narrated by: David Shih
- Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 22-11-13
- Language: English
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Embracing Defeat
- By: John W. Dower
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance23
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Story24
This illuminating study explores the ways in which the shattering defeat of the Japanese in World War II, followed by over six years of American military occupation, affected every level of Japanese society. The author describes the countless ways in which the Japanese met the challenge of "starting over", from top-level manipulations concerning the fate of Emperor Hirohito to the hopes, fears, and activities of ordinary men and women in every walk of life.
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Narrator spoils interesting history
- By MR on 09-07-15
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Embracing Defeat
- Narrated by: Edward Lewis
- Length: 21 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 03-05-07
- Language: English
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Hiroshima
- By: John Hersey
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall87
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Performance73
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Story72
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...
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Harrowing
- By Dexter on 08-10-25
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Hiroshima
- Narrated by: George Guidall
- Length: 5 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 17-09-19
- Language: English
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The Manhattan Project
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- By: Al Cimino
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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This book traces the history of the Manhattan Project, from the first glimmerings of the possibility of such a catastrophic weapon to the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It profiles the architects of the bomb, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, and how they tried to reconcile their personal feelings with their ambition as scientists. It looks at the role of the politicians and it includes first-hand accounts of those who experienced the effects of the bombings.
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A good quick book.
- By Steven on 04-10-23
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The Manhattan Project
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- Narrated by: Eric Meyers
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-02-22
- Language: English
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Leyte Gulf
- A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle
- By: Mark Stille
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance4
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Bloomsbury presents Leyte Gulf by Mark Stille, read by John Chancer. A fascinating re-examination of the battle of Leyte Gulf, the largest naval encounter in history and probably the most decisive naval battle of the entire Pacific War, and one that saw the Imperial Japanese Navy eliminated as...
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Superb
- By Amazon Customer on 19-08-23
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Leyte Gulf
- A New History of the World's Largest Sea Battle
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 14 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 08-06-23
- Language: English
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No Surrender
- My Thirty-Year War
- By: Hiroo Onoda
- Narrated by: Lane Nishikawa
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall69
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Performance59
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Story59
In the Spring of 1974, 2nd Lt. Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine army and police, hostile islanders, and eventually successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully outmaneuvered all his pursuers, convinced that World War II was still being fought and waiting for the day when his fellow soldiers would return victorious.
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Brilliant story and thoroughly fascinating
- By Billy edmundson on 16-01-23
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No Surrender
- My Thirty-Year War
- Narrated by: Lane Nishikawa
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-12-13
- Language: English
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The Railway Man
- By: Eric Lomax
- Narrated by: Bill Paterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall286
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Performance259
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Story255
A naive young man, a railway enthusiast and radio buff, was caught up in the fall of the British Empire at Singapore in 1942. He was put to work on the 'Railway of Death' - the Japanese line from Thailand to Burma. Exhaustively and brutally tortured by the Japanese for making a crude radio...
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a tale of humanity, frailty and ultimately redemption
- By Jemmy Bloocher on 13-04-13
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The Railway Man
- Narrated by: Bill Paterson
- Length: 8 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 18-05-11
- Language: English
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Letter from Japan
- By: Marie Kondo, Marie Iida - translation
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman, Marie Kondo
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance5
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Story5
We discover why appreciating the beauty of sakura, cherry blossom, allows for a moment to deeply experience a season through a single entity (Cherish). In the traditional tea ceremony, we see the importance of kiwameru, the Japanese word for achieving mastery or perfection (Perfect). In umami, we taste how something simple and delicious can nourish the heart (Savour). We explore why the things left unsaid, ma, are just as important as the words we say (Harmonise).
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A lovely and life stimulating book
- By LC on 31-10-25
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Letter from Japan
- Narrated by: Hanako Footman, Marie Kondo
- Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 16-10-25
- Language: English
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The Rise and Fall of the Samurai: 10 Defining Moments in Japanese History
- By: Korey Blathewick
- Narrated by: John B. Leen
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall62
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Performance36
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Story36
For nearly a thousand years, the samurai stood at the heart of Japan’s history—warriors of the sword, guardians of tradition, and ultimately casualties of modern change. Their story is one of loyalty and betrayal, war and peace, honour and decline. To understand the samurai is to understand Japan itself, for no other class shaped the nation’s destiny so profoundly. The Rise and Fall of the Samurai traces this extraordinary journey through ten defining moments.
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Concise Yet Comprehensive
- By Claudes on 01-04-26
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The Rise and Fall of the Samurai: 10 Defining Moments in Japanese History
- Narrated by: John B. Leen
- Length: 2 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 29-10-25
- Language: English
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Pearl Harbor
- Japan's Greatest Disaster
- By: Mark Stille
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents Pearl Harbor: Japan's Greatest Disaster by Mark E. Stille, read by Christopher Ragland. A detailed re-examination of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy that saw the USA enter World War II. In this the first comprehensive treatment of Pearl Harbor since the...
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Pearl Harbor
- Japan's Greatest Disaster
- Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
- Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 06-11-25
- Language: English
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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
- The Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb - By The People Who Were There
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Garrett M. Graff
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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April 12, 1945. Less than three months into his vice presidency, Harry Truman is catapulted into the Oval Office following the sudden death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. As he recites the oath, he learns a chilling secret known only to a select few: the United States is on the verge of deploying a weapon of unimaginable power. This weapon could end the war but also herald a new age of global fear and uncertainty.
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Collage
- By R. Maines on 30-08-25
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The Devil Reached Toward the Sky
- The Making and Unleashing of the Atomic Bomb - By The People Who Were There
- Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Garrett M. Graff
- Length: 20 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 29-07-25
- Language: English
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- By: Herbert P. Bix
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance17
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Story17
In this groundbreaking biography of the Japanese emperor Hirohito, Herbert P. Bix offers the first complete, unvarnished look at the enigmatic leader whose 63-year reign ushered Japan into the modern world. Never before has the full life of this controversial figure been revealed with such clarity and vividness. Bix describes what it was like to be trained from birth for a lone position at the apex of the nation's political hierarchy and as a revered symbol of divine status.
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A good book spoilt by an awful narrator
- By MIS on 19-08-21
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Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 29 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 04-12-18
- Language: English
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The War of the Running Dogs
- Malaya 1948-1960
- By: Noel Barber
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall3
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Performance2
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Only three short years after the end of the Japanese occupation, war came again to Malaya. The Chinese-backed guerrillas called it the War of the Running Dogs - their contemptuous term for those in Malaya who remained loyal to the British. The British Government referred to this bloody and costly struggle as the 'Malayan Emergency'. Yet it was a war that lasted twelve years and cost thousands of lives. By the time it was over Malaya had obtained its independence - but on British, not on Chinese or Communist terms.
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War of the running dogs
- By Peter Bowles on 14-05-25
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The War of the Running Dogs
- Malaya 1948-1960
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 17-08-23
- Language: English
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Facing the Mountain
- The Forgotten Heroes of the Second World War
- By: Daniel James Brown
- Narrated by: Louis Ozawa
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
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Overall5
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In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the unforgettable story of the Japanese-American men who volunteered for the US army's 442nd Regimental Combat Team and displayed incredible courage on the brutal battlefields of Europe. Achieving the impossible in often near-suicidal missions, including rescuing a 'lost battalion' surrounded by Nazis in the French mountains, the 442nd went on to become one of the most decorated units in US history. Yet at the same time, their parents were put in camps and stripped of their livelihoods.
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Courage on so many levels
- By Ian Robinson on 25-04-24
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Facing the Mountain
- The Forgotten Heroes of the Second World War
- Narrated by: Louis Ozawa
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 20-05-21
- Language: English
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Hidden Japan
- An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
- By: Alex Kerr
- Narrated by: Alex Kerr
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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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.
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Hidden Japan
- An Astonishing World of Thatched Villages, Ancient Shrines and Primeval Forests
- Narrated by: Alex Kerr
- Length: 5 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 24-03-26
- Language: English
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Samurai!
- By: Saburo Sakai
- Narrated by: Kevin Waites
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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Samurai! is the gripping autobiography of Saburō Sakai, one of Japan’s most renowned fighter pilots during World War II. Co-written with Fred Saito and Martin Caidin, the book chronicles Sakai’s rise from a poor rural upbringing to becoming an elite Zero pilot in the Imperial Japanese Navy.
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Terrible Narration
- By Gary Mennell on 21-08-25
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Samurai!
- Narrated by: Kevin Waites
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 14-07-25
- Language: English
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Yasuke
- By: Thomas Lockley, Geoffrey Girard
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall18
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Performance15
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The man who came to be known as Yasuke arrived in Japan in the 16th century, an indentured mercenary arriving upon one of the Portuguese ships carrying a new language, a new religion and an introduction to the slave trade. Curiously tall, bald, massively built and black skinned, he was known as a steadfast bodyguard of immense strength and stature, swiftly capturing the interest and thence the trust, of the most powerful family in all of Japan. Two years later, he vanished.
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Recommended reading
- By Ross H on 16-04-21
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Yasuke
- Narrated by: Jude Owusu
- Length: 14 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 27-03-20
- Language: English
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Zen and the Samurai Sword
- Japanese Warrior Techniques for Agility, Clarity and Calm
- By: Antony Cummins
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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This unique book combines Japanese warrior techniques with ancient Zen practices for mental clarity and physical agility, giving listeners a Samurai edge that will carry them through life. Blending Japanese Samurai wisdom with ancient Zen practices, this book will take you on a metaphysical journey to becoming a swordsman. Sharpen the mind, hone the senses and control the body to achieve clarity, drive and peace.
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Zen and the Samurai Sword
- Japanese Warrior Techniques for Agility, Clarity and Calm
- Narrated by: John Chancer
- Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 03-02-26
- Language: English
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Musashi Distilled: Life Lessons from Japan’s Greatest Swordsman.
- Stories of Mindset, Strategy, Overthinking and Personal Growth
- By: Eternal Knowledge Books
- Narrated by: Nathan Ashcroft
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance14
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In 17th century Japan, a masterless samurai with nothing but his sword and unwavering resolve defeated over sixty opponents in life-or-death duels. He died undefeated.
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Best audiobook
- By S. J. Watson on 10-05-26
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Musashi Distilled: Life Lessons from Japan’s Greatest Swordsman.
- Stories of Mindset, Strategy, Overthinking and Personal Growth
- Narrated by: Nathan Ashcroft
- Length: 4 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 30-03-26
- Language: English
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