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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
- By: Olaudah Equiano
- Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
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First published in 1789, this autobiography of Olaudah Equiano comprises a variety of styles, such as a slavery narrative, travel tale, and spiritual journey. It recounts Equiano's time as a slave, and chronicles his attempts at becoming an independent man through his study of the Bible, and his eventual success in gaining his freedom.
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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African
- Narrated by: Duncan Brownlehe
- Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 21-06-19
- Language: English
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Rather Die Fighting
- A Memoir of World War II
- By: Frank Blaichman
- Narrated by: Pat Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Frank Blaichman was 16 years old when the war broke out. In 1942, the killings began in Poland. With his family and friends decimated by the roundups, Blaichman decided that he would rather die fighting; he set off for the forest to find the underground bunkers of Jews who had already escaped. Together they formed a partisan force dedicated to fighting the Germans. This is a harrowing, utterly moving memoir of a young Polish Jew who chose not to go quietly and defied the mighty German war machine during World War II.
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A story of a little known of a Jewish Resistance Group in Poland.
- By Colin James on 08-09-25
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Rather Die Fighting
- A Memoir of World War II
- Narrated by: Pat Young
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 28-01-13
- Language: English
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- By: Jonathan Bate
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall37
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Performance35
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A Times and Sunday Times Best Book of 2020 ‘Radical Wordsworth deserves to take its place as the finest modern introduction to his work, life and impact’ Financial Times ‘Richly repays reading … It is hard to think of another poet who has changed our world so much’ Sunday Times A...
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Largely entertaining, however some of the claims's
- By DavidT on 27-04-20
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Radical Wordsworth
- The Poet Who Changed the World
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 16 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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The Gentry
- Stories of the English
- By: Adam Nicolson
- Narrated by: David Fleeshman
- Length: 16 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall13
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Performance9
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Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. In this vivid, lively book, history has never been more readable. We may well be ‘a nation of shopkeepers’...
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well written and with a lyrical quality
- By twigs way on 26-12-15
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The Gentry
- Stories of the English
- Narrated by: David Fleeshman
- Length: 16 hrs
- Release date: 27-10-11
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius
- A Life of Pliny
- By: Daisy Dunn
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall23
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Performance19
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‘Never less than compelling … She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life’ Tom Holland, Literary Review ‘Starts with an erupting volcano – and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich, witty, insightful and wide-ranging’ Sarah...
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Entertaining and Informative
- By Brian Keaney on 15-06-19
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In the Shadow of Vesuvius
- A Life of Pliny
- Narrated by: Mike Grady
- Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 31-05-19
- Language: English
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly's Casanova
- A BBC Radio 4 reading
- By: Ian Kelly
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Abridged
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Overall49
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Performance46
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly’s biography of one of the most beguiling and controversial individuals of any age. In this fascinating biography of the notorious libertine, Ian Kelly draws on documents by Casanova, his friends and his lovers (male and female) in order to bring fresh...
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Entertaining, short biography of a flat character
- By EGM on 23-03-17
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Ian Kelly's Casanova
- A BBC Radio 4 reading
- Narrated by: Benedict Cumberbatch
- Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
- Release date: 21-05-15
- Language: English
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The Book of Margery Kempe
- By: Margery Kempe
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance6
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The Book of Margery Kempe is the extraordinary account of a medieval wife, mother, and mystic from Norfolk. Having married in c. 1393, given birth to 14 children, and pursued unsuccessful ventures in brewing and milling, Kempe made a vow of chastity and embarked on a life of prayer, penance, and pilgrimage.
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Interesting account
- By Naomi Nunns on 25-05-26
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The Book of Margery Kempe
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 20-10-21
- Language: English
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- By: Kathy O’Shaughnessy
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall22
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Performance20
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Who was the real George Eliot? In Love with George Eliot is a glorious debut novel which tells the compelling story of England’s greatest woman novelist as you’ve never heard it before.
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An excellent novel !
- By Anonymous on 22-05-23
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In Love with George Eliot
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Shiromi Arserio
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-10-20
- Language: English
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Thomas More
- A Life and Death in Tudor England
- By: Joanne Paul
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall32
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Performance30
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Brought to you by Penguin. Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century Born into the English Wars of the Roses, educated in the European Renaissance, enthralled by the Age of Exploration and...
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Detailed, fascinating and well-read biography of a historically important figure.
- By Kevin Leigh on 21-09-25
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Thomas More
- A Life and Death in Tudor England
- Narrated by: Ben Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 29-05-25
- Language: English
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Lenin the Dictator
- By: Victor Sebestyen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 20 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall116
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Performance97
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Victor Sebestyen's intimate biography is the first major work in English for nearly two decades on one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century. In Russia to this day Lenin inspires adulation. Everywhere, he continues to fascinate as a man who made history, and who created a new...
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Excellent
- By McKenna on 26-01-18
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Lenin the Dictator
- Narrated by: Jonathan Aris
- Length: 20 hrs
- Release date: 29-06-17
- Language: English
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Forgotten Fatherland
- The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
- By: Ben Macintyre
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance25
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Bloomsbury presents Forgotten Fatherland, written and read by Ben Macintyre 'Startling, dark and absorbing' Independent 'Excellent travel writing: vivid, sympathetic, humorous' Guardian 'Fascinating, provocative and highly eccentric' New York Times _______________________ In 1886 Elisabeth...
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Excellent
- By Amazon Customer on 15-11-25
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Forgotten Fatherland
- The search for Elisabeth Nietzsche
- Narrated by: Ben Macintyre
- Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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The Wise and Their Works
- The Legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: A.N. Wilson
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Bloomsbury presents The Wise and Their Works: The Legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851, written and read by A. N. Wilson The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition in 2026. The men who inspired the Great Exhibition of 1851 - Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel...
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The Wise and Their Works
- The Legacy of the Great Exhibition of 1851
- Narrated by: A.N. Wilson
- Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 25-06-26
- Language: English
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The Romans
- A 2,000-Year History
- By: Edward J. Watts
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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'At last, a history of the Roman state as it has always been crying out to be told, and never has been!' RODERICK BEATON The greatest empire in Western history - told as never been told before. Rome is often remembered for its spectacular collapse. But for over two thousand years - through civil...
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Great summary of Roman history. Expansive in scope.
- By Scott P. on 27-04-26
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The Romans
- A 2,000-Year History
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 12 mins
- Release date: 09-10-25
- Language: English
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- Winner of AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR at 2020 Audie Awards
- By: Garrett M. Graff
- Narrated by: Garrett M. Graff
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall495
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Performance439
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR at 2020 Audie Awards "Incredibly evocative and compelling." The Washington Post "Although many years have passed since 9/11, this book, told with such immediacy, brings so vividly back to mind the shock of that day, and why it...
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A Powerful and Important Work of Nonfiction
- By Vivienne on 15-09-19
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The Only Plane in the Sky
- Winner of AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR at 2020 Audie Awards
- Narrated by: Garrett M. Graff
- Length: 15 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 10-09-19
- Language: English
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
- A True Story of World War II
- By: Denis Avey, Rob Broomby
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall420
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Performance301
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Here is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into Buna-Monowitz, the concentration camp known as Auschwitz III. In the summer of 1944, Denis Avey was being held in a POW labour camp, E715, near Auschwitz III. He had heard of the brutality meted out to the prisoners there and he was determined to witness what he could. He hatched a plan to swap places with a Jewish inmate and smuggled himself into his sector of the camp.
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Man's inhumanity to man.
- By Craig on 18-08-11
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The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz
- A True Story of World War II
- Narrated by: Sean Barrett
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 10-06-11
- 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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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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Our Story
- By: Reginald Kray, Ronald Kray, Fred Dinenage
- Narrated by: David John, Fred Dinenage
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Overall326
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Performance285
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London's most notorious gangsters, in their own words . . . The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller. The Kray twins were Britain's most notorious gangsters. Ruling London's underworld for more than a decade, as gang lords they were among the most powerful and feared men in the city. Photographed by...
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Nurture or Nature
- By M. McGuirk on 13-01-22
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Our Story
- Narrated by: David John, Fred Dinenage
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 05-08-21
- Language: English
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Hero of Two Worlds
- The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- By: Mike Duncan
- Narrated by: Mike Duncan
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall416
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Performance372
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The riveting story of the Marquis de Lafayette’s lifelong quest to defend the principles of liberty and equality, from the bestselling author of The Storm Before the Storm and the host of the Revolutions podcast. "Immensely compelling." —The New York Times Few in...
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A brilliant story brilliantly told
- By James on 05-04-25
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Hero of Two Worlds
- The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution
- Narrated by: Mike Duncan
- Length: 17 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 24-08-21
- Language: English
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- By: Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic, Sir Martin Gilbert - foreword, and others
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall158
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April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over 100 miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz.
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Amazing Audiobook
- By PaulC6230 on 06-12-20
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- Narrated by: Steven Jay Cohen
- Length: 17 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 24-11-20
- Language: English
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A Life in Secrets
- Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
- By: Sarah Helm
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II. As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special...
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Fascinating history of SOE operations WWII
- By honora on 30-10-18
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A Life in Secrets
- Vera Atkins and the Missing Agents of WWII
- Narrated by: Nicola Barber
- Length: 19 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 23-10-18
- Language: English
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