Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942 by Jeffrey R. Cox

North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors by Daniel Tudor, James Pearson

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329302 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329302] to listen full audiobooks. Title: North Korea Confidential: Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors Author: Daniel Tudor, James Pearson Narrator: Derek Perkins Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 4 hours 46 minutes Release date: April 3, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.5 of Total 4 Ratings of Narrator: 2 of Total 1 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: **Named one of the best books of 2015 by The Economist** Private Markets, Fashion Trends, Prison Camps, Dissenters and Defectors. North Korea is one of the most troubled societies on earth. The country's 24 million people live under a violent dictatorship led by a single family, which relentlessly pursues the development of nuclear arms, which periodically incites risky military clashes with the larger, richer, liberal South, and which forces each and every person to play a role in the 'theater state' even as it pays little more than lip service to the wellbeing of the overwhelming majority. With this profoundly anachronistic system eventually failed in the 1990s, it triggered a famine that decimated the countryside and obliterated the lives of many hundreds of thousands of people. However, it also changed the lives of those who survived forever. A lawless form of marketization came to replace the iron rice bowl of work in state companies, and the Orwellian mind control of the Korean Workers' Party was replaced for many by dreams of trade and profit. A new North Korea Society was born from the horrors of the era—one that is more susceptible to outside information than ever before with the advent of k-pop and video-carrying USB sticks. This is the North Korean society that is described in this book. In seven fascinating chapters, the authors explore what life is actually like in modern North Korea today for the ordinary 'man and woman on the street.' They interview experts and tap a broad variety of sources to bring a startling new insider's view of North Korean society—from members of Pyongyang's ruling families to defectors from different periods and regions, to diplomats and NGOs with years of experience in the country, to cross-border traders from neighboring China, and textual accounts appearing in English, Korean and Chinese sources. The resulting stories reveal the horror as well as the innovation and humor which abound in this fascinating country.

Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation by Daniel Tudor

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329511 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329511] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Ask a North Korean: Defectors Talk About Their Lives Inside the World's Most Secretive Nation Author: Daniel Tudor Narrator: P. J. Ochlan, Greta Jung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 0 minutes Release date: March 20, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: Understanding North Korean Through the Eyes of Defectors. The weekly column Ask a North Korean, published by NK News, invites readers from around the world to pose questions to North Korean defectors. By way of these fascinating interviews, the North Koreans themselves provide authentic firsthand testimonies about what is happening inside the 'Hermit Kingdom.' North Korean contributors to this book include: - 'Seong' who came to South Korea after dropping out during his final year of his university. He is now training to be an elementary school teacher. - 'Kang' who left North Korea in 2005. He now lives in London, England. - 'Cheol' who was from South Hamgyeong in North Korea and is now a second-year university student in Seoul. - 'Park' worked and studied in Pyongyang before defecting to the U.S. in 2011. He is now studying at a U.S. college. This book sheds critical light on all aspects of North Korean politics and society and shows that even in the world's most authoritarian regime, life goes on in ways that are very different from what you may think.

A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir by Ian Buruma

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325038 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325038] to listen full audiobooks. Title: A Tokyo Romance: A Memoir Author: Ian Buruma Narrator: Ian Buruma Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 20 minutes Release date: March 6, 2018 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: A classic memoir of self-invention in a strange land: Ian Buruma's unflinching account of his amazing journey into the heart of Tokyo's underground culture as a young man in the 1970's When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, Japan was little more than an idea in his mind, a fantasy of a distant land. A sensitive misfit in the world of his upper middleclass youth, what he longed for wasn’t so much the exotic as the raw, unfiltered humanity he had experienced in Japanese theater performances and films, witnessed in Amsterdam and Paris. One particular theater troupe, directed by a poet of runaways, outsiders, and eccentrics, was especially alluring, more than a little frightening, and completely unforgettable. If Tokyo was anything like his plays, Buruma knew that he had to join the circus as soon as possible. Tokyo was an astonishment. Buruma found a feverish and surreal metropolis where nothing was understated—neon lights, crimson lanterns, Japanese pop, advertising jingles, and cabarets. He encountered a city in the midst of an economic boom where everything seemed new, aside from the isolated temple or shrine that had survived the firestorms and earthquakes that had levelled the city during the past century. History remained in fragments: the shapes of wounded World War II veterans in white kimonos, murky old bars that Mishima had cruised in, and the narrow alleys where street girls had once flitted. Buruma’s Tokyo, though, was a city engaged in a radical transformation. And through his adventures in the world of avant garde theater, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers, and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical transformation of his own. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free. A Tokyo Romance is a portrait of a young artist and the fantastical city that shaped him. With his signature acuity, Ian Buruma brilliantly captures the historical tensions between east and west, the cultural excitement of 1970s Tokyo, and the dilemma of the gaijin in Japanese society, free, yet always on the outside. The result is a timeless story about the desire to transgress boundaries: cultural, artistic, and sexual.

Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam by Frances FitzGerald

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329324 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/329324] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Fire in the Lake: The Vietnamese and the Americans in Vietnam Author: Frances FitzGerald Narrator: Jeff Bottoms Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 22 hours 30 minutes Release date: March 6, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 5 of Total 1 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: Frances FitzGerald's landmark history of Vietnam and the Vietnam War, 'A compassionate and penetrating account of the collision of two societies that remain untranslatable to one another.' (New York Times Book Review) This magisterial work, based on Frances FitzGerald's many years of research and travels, takes us inside the history of Vietnam--the traditional, ancestor-worshiping villages, the conflicts between Communists and anti-Communists, Catholics and Buddhists, generals

Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942 by Jeffrey R. Cox

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325455 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/325455] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Morning Star, Midnight Sun: The Early Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign of World War II August–October 1942 Author: Jeffrey R. Cox Narrator: Joe Barrett Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 20 hours 44 minutes Release date: February 22, 2018 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3.67 of Total 3 Genres: Asia Publisher's Summary: Following the disastrous Java Sea campaign, the Allies went on the offensive in the Pacific in a desperate attempt to halt the Japanese forces that were rampaging across the region. With the conquest of Australia a very real possibility, the stakes were high. Their target: the Japanese-held Soloman Islands, in particular the southern island of Guadalcanal. Hamstrung by arcane pre-war thinking and a bureaucratic mind-set, the U.S. Navy had to adapt on the fly in order to compete with the mighty Imperial Japanese Navy, whose ingenuity and creativity thus far had fostered the creation of its Pacific empire. Starting with the amphibious assault on Savo Island, the campaign turned into an attritional struggle where the evenly matched foes sought to grind out a victory. Following on from his hugely successful book Rising Sun, Falling Skies, Jeffrey R. Cox tells the gripping story of the first Allied offensive of the Pacific War, as they sought to prevent Japan from cutting off Australia and regaining dominance in the Pacific.