Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, the Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam audiobook runs 8.8 hours unabridged, narrated by John Pruden (about 5.9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
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What our data says
- At 8.8 hours, it is shorter than 51% of the 8,990 Current Affairs, Law, & Politics audiobooks in our catalog.
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Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam is an audiobook by John A. Nagl: a 8.8-hour unabridged recording, read by John Pruden, released May 17, 2012, on the Current Affairs, Law, & Politics and Asia shelves.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 8.8 hrs
- Narrated by
- John Pruden
- Released
- May 17, 2012
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- Current Affairs, Law, & Politics, Asia
- ISBN
- 9781481590884
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How long is the Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam audiobook?
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam runs 8.8 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 5.9 hours.
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Who narrates Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam?
Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam is narrated by John Pruden.