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Titanic
- A Survivor's Story
- By: Colonel Archibald Gracie
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance21
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Story22
It was one of the most traumatic events in maritime history, and Archibald Gracie was probably among the last to leave the sinking Titanic on that cold April night in 1912. In this unique account, he describes his personal experiences and remarkable escape from death in the icy waters of the Atlantic, painting a vivid picture of what it was like on board the Titanic in its final hours.
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A collection of survivor's experiences
- By BlueButter on 08-01-26
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Titanic
- A Survivor's Story
- Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-12-06
- Language: English
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Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)
- The Making of England
- By: Tom Holland
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall76
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Performance68
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Story66
Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Athelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland, read by Roy McMillan. The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of...
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Superb introduction to the foundation of England
- By Julian Crump on 13-06-19
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Athelstan (Penguin Monarchs)
- The Making of England
- Narrated by: Roy McMillan
- Series: Penguin Monarchs
- Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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The Man in the Red Coat
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall65
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Performance55
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Story53
In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’ shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner with an Italian name, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent’s greatest portraits. The three men's lives play out against the backdrop of the Belle Epoque in Paris. The beautiful age of glamour and pleasure more often showed its ugly side: hysterical, narcissistic, decadent and violent, a time of rampant prejudice and blood-and-soil nativism, with more parallels to our own age than we might imagine.
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A bit of common sense when choosing a narrator!
- By Anonymous on 25-06-20
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The Man in the Red Coat
- Narrated by: Saul Reichlin
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 12-03-20
- Language: English
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Diana, William and Harry
- By: James Patterson
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall9
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Performance9
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Brought to you by Penguin. Twenty-five years after her tragic death, James Patterson tells the heartbreaking true story of Princess Diana's life as a mother and a global icon ______________________________ At the age of thirteen, she became Lady Diana Spencer. At twenty, Princess of Wales. At...
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Diana, William and Harry
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 15-08-22
- Language: English
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
- The Murder, Mystery and Madness of the Oxford English Dictionary
- By: Simon Winchester
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance40
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Story40
The compiling of the OED was a monumental task. It took 50 years, even with the help of numerous contributors. Among the most prolific was William Chester Minor, who sent editor James Murray thousands of extracts. On many occasions, Murray invited this mysterious correspondent to Oxford, but the invitation was always declined. Finally stirred by curiosity, Murray himself went to visit Minor. What he found was shocking: Minor lived in Broadmoor asylum.
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good but
- By Sally Margetts on 24-04-18
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne
- The Murder, Mystery and Madness of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Narrated by: Simon Winchester
- Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-11-17
- Language: English
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Hitler's Hangman
- The Life of Heydrich
- By: Robert Gerwarth
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall275
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Performance252
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Story251
Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the 20th century, an appalling figure even within the context of the Nazi leadership. Chief of the Nazi Criminal Police, the SS Security Service, and the Gestapo, ruthless overlord of Nazi-occupied Bohemia and Moravia, and leading planner of the "Final Solution," Heydrich played a central role in Hitler's Germany.
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Trying subject matter
- By john on 11-11-16
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Hitler's Hangman
- The Life of Heydrich
- Narrated by: Napoleon Ryan
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 30-08-16
- Language: English
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Kill or Be Killed
- By: Major W. Robert Foran
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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Brought to you from the Peter Capstick Library. Major W. Robert Foran once killed a lion while "garbed in dinner clothes and patent leather shoes" in the days when it was still possible to meet simba in the streets of Nairobi. He hunted the big five of the dangerous game, experienced many close shaves in the process. Buckley served in the Boer War, and in the British East Africa Police, a paramilitary group that blazed a rough trail through Kenya's early days. He survived injury and disease, and covered Theodore Roosevelt's famous safari for the Associated Press.
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Worth a read
- By c jameson on 20-02-26
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Kill or Be Killed
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 14 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 17-09-25
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
- By: Ernest Hemingway
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance61
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Story61
Ernest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in the 1920s, now available in a restored edition, includes the original manuscript along with insightful recollections and unfinished sketches. Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway’s most enduring works...
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An Unforgetable Memoir
- By Mercadier on 24-12-12
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A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition
- Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 14-07-09
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
- By: Antonia Fraser - editor
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall177
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Performance138
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Story143
This magnificent story of 1,000 years of English history is told through the lives and deeds of Kings and Queens, from the Normans to the Windsors. Understand how the power of the crown has changed as a result of both the character and ability of each monarch and evolving historical circumstances. Eight specialist contributors depict the whole spectrum of royal life in a succinct and fascinating way. Newly revised in 1998, this edition offers expanded coverage of the House of Windsor, including recent events that have greatly affected the Royal Family.
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Interesting enough but....
- By Adaline on 12-02-22
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The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England
- Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
- Length: 12 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 16-12-99
- Language: English
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Vuelta Skelter
- Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain
- By: Tim Moore
- Narrated by: Tim Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall98
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Performance88
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Story89
Julian Berrendero's victory in the 1941 Vuelta a Espana was an extraordinary exercise in sporting redemption: the Spanish cyclist had just spent 18 months in Franco's concentration camps, punishment for expressing Republican sympathies during the civil war. Seventy-nine years later, perennially over-ambitious cyclo-adventurer Tim Moore developed a fascination with Berrendero's story, and having borrowed an old road bike with the great man's name plastered all over it, set off to retrace the 4,409-km route of his 1941 triumph - in the midst of a global pandemic.
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The Spain nobody talks about
- By Fay Rushby on 23-06-25
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Vuelta Skelter
- Riding the Remarkable 1941 Tour of Spain
- Narrated by: Tim Moore
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 12-08-21
- Language: English
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Enemies Within
- Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
- By: Richard Davenport-Hines
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance30
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What pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayed their country and what this cost Britain and its...
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Quite shocking
- By David H. Furnival on 14-03-21
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Enemies Within
- Communists, the Cambridge Spies and the Making of Modern Britain
- Narrated by: Richard Trinder
- Length: 24 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 25-01-18
- Language: English
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Blue Lights and Long Nights
- By: Les Pringle
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall94
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Performance77
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Story77
This book has been re-issued as Dial 999! ISBN 9780552165310. Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and 'flying' ladies - life as an ambulance driver in the 1970s was certainly varied ... At the age of twenty-three, Les Pringle decided to escape from office life, broaden his horizons and...
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29 years Service
- By steve hutchinson on 21-03-18
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Blue Lights and Long Nights
- Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 03-01-13
- Language: English
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What It Is Like To Go To War
- By: Karl Marlantes
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall82
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Performance70
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Story69
Karl Marlantes left University at 22 to serve in the Vietnam War. Matterhorn was the bestselling novel based on his experiences. Now Marlantes takes us back to Vietnam, but this time there is no fictional veil. It is part exorcism of Karl's own experiences of combat, part confession, part philosophical primer for the young man about to enter combat. It is also a devastatingly frank answer to the questions ‘What is it like to face death?' and 'What is it like to kill someone?'
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Compelling philosophy of war
- By Rudy on 23-12-12
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What It Is Like To Go To War
- Narrated by: Jeff Harding
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 16-01-12
- Language: English
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The Young H.G. Wells
- Changing the World
- By: Claire Tomalin
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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Brought to you by Penguin. A fascinating journey into the life of H.G. Wells, from one of Britain's best biographers. How did the first forty years of H. G. Wells' life shape the father of science fiction? From his impoverished childhood in a working-class English family, to his determination to...
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The Amazing H G Wells
- By Ken P on 03-01-22
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The Young H.G. Wells
- Changing the World
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 04-11-21
- Language: English
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- By: Jon Meacham
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance19
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive biography of Andrew Jackson, a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever “Marvelously readable . . . brings alive a profoundly flawed but dazzlingly charismatic American...
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What a legend
- By Jason on 18-06-25
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American Lion
- Andrew Jackson in the White House
- Narrated by: Richard McGonagle
- Length: 17 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 11-11-08
- Language: English
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Anne Frank Remembered
- By: Miep Gies, Alison Leslie Gold
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall67
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Performance65
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Story65
For more than two years, Miep Gies and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives each day to bring food, news, and emotional support to the victims. From her own remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange, checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- in Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity.
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excellent
- By Mary on 28-04-15
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Anne Frank Remembered
- Narrated by: Barbara Rosenblat
- Length: 9 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 18-08-09
- Language: English
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird
- The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
- By: James Bailey
- Narrated by: Harley Viveash
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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Performance1
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"This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer" FRANCESCA WADE, author of Square Haunting "Utterly charming. A book as elegant, sharp-witted and mischievous as its subject" CLARE POLLARD, author of Delphi "Like a Spark novel, the moment my eyes met the page...
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Like a Cat Loves a Bird
- The Nine Lives of Muriel Spark
- Narrated by: Harley Viveash
- Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 09-04-26
- Language: English
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The World as I See It
- By: Albert Einstein
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall6
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Performance3
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Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him.
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I guess I wanted more of a biography
- By Bob Conrod on 03-11-23
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The World as I See It
- Narrated by: Pete Cross
- Length: 3 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 29-03-21
- Language: English
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The Lost Boys
- A Family Ripped Apart by War
- By: Catherine Bailey
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall55
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Performance46
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Brought to you by Penguin. Berlin, September 1944. Ulrich von Hassell, former ambassador to Italy and a key member of the German Resistance, is executed for his part in an assassination plot against Hitler. In response to the attack, Himmler, leader of the SS, orders the arrest of all the...
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Too heavy going for me
- By Craig on 30-09-19
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The Lost Boys
- A Family Ripped Apart by War
- Narrated by: Laura Kirman
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-08-19
- Language: English
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Escape from Stalag Luft III
- The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
- By: Bram Vanderstok
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance124
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On the night of March 24, 1944, Bram Vanderstok was number 18 of 76 men who crawled beyond the barbed wire fence of Stalag Luft III in Zagan, Poland. His memoir sets down his wartime adventures before being incarcerated in Stalag Luft III and then, in extraordinary detail, describes various escape attempts which culminated with the famous March breakout.
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Outstanding
- By Amazon Customer on 06-02-26
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Escape from Stalag Luft III
- The True Story of My Successful Great Escape: The Memoir of Bob Vanderstok
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Release date: 16-04-19
- Language: English
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