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The Bowmen

By: Arthur Machen
Narrated by: Cathy Dobson
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Arthur Machen (1863-1947) was a Welsh author and mystic, best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction.

'The Bowmen' is perhaps the most famous of Machen's tales. It is the iconic story of an incident from the First World War trenches. Faced with inevitable death and defeat, a battalion of English soldiers is saved by the mysterious and miraculous intervention of Saint George and a company of English bowmen who had last fought at Agincourt.

Public Domain (P)2018 Red Door Audiobooks Anthologies Anthologies & Short Stories Classics Fiction Fantasy Short Story
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Really awful. I can’t understand why anyone would actually employ this woman to read to other people. Can’t even comment on the story as she was so off putting

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This story is less than ten minutes long. Too long to bear the appalling undulating and irrational narration. What the …? I’ve never listened to anything this bad.

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