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Between the Waves
- A rich new history of Britain's relationship with Europe
- By: Tom McTague
- Narrated by: Eliot Chapman
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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**Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction** This is the definitive history of Britain’s tumultuous relationship with Europe – as it’s never been told before. 'Powerful, precise, morally engaged, wonderfully alert to character, context and the greater purpose of political...
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Fabulous
- By Edward Shorthouse on 07-11-25
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Between the Waves
- A rich new history of Britain's relationship with Europe
- Narrated by: Eliot Chapman
- Length: 16 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Citizen Clem
- A Biography of Attlee
- By: John Bew
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall406
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Performance356
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Story353
Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government, delivering the end of the empire in India, the foundation of the NHS and Britain's place in NATO. Called 'a sheep in sheep's clothing', his reputation has long been that of an unassuming character in the shadow of Churchill. But as John Bew's revelatory biography shows, Attlee was not only a hero of his age but an emblem of it, and his life tells the story of how Britain changed over the 20th century.
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Good old Clem
- By P Garbett on 12-11-17
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Citizen Clem
- A Biography of Attlee
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 26 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 07-09-17
- Language: English
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The Soviet Century
- Archaeology of a Lost World
- By: Karl Schlogel, Rodney Livingstone - translator
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall27
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Performance24
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The Soviet Union is gone, but its ghostly traces remain, not least in the material vestiges left behind in its turbulent wake. What was it really like to live in the USSR? What did it look, feel, smell, and sound like? In The Soviet Century, Karl Schlögel, one of the world's leading historians of the Soviet Union, presents a spellbinding epic that brings to life the everyday world of a unique lost civilization. A museum of—and travel guide to—the Soviet past, The Soviet Century explores in evocative detail both the largest and smallest aspects of life in the USSR.
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An excellent book, nicely narrated
- By Jazzlord on 18-06-23
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The Soviet Century
- Archaeology of a Lost World
- Narrated by: Ciaran Saward
- Length: 29 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 14-03-23
- Language: English
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Defiant Courage
- A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
- By: Astrid Karlson Scott, Tore Haug
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance53
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In late March of 1943, four commandos arrive in northern Norway with a mission of establishing a base for sabotage operations. Before they can unload their cutter, they are betrayed, as a German Schnell boat arrives and turns the quiet fjord into a battle zone. Only one man, Jan Baalsrud, surrvives the attack. This is the story of his perilous journey to freedom. Wounded, the dauntless soldier swims icy fjord waters, climbs snow-laden granite peaks, endures violent snowstorms and is hurled off a mountain by an avalanche.
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Courage
- By ian hall on 15-04-26
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Defiant Courage
- A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
- Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-02-13
- Language: English
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The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- By: Marione Ingram
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall68
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Performance61
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An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She was German. She was Jewish. She was a survivor. This is her story. As a young girl, Marione was aware that people of the Jewish faith were regarded as outsiders, the supposed root of Germany’s many problems. She grew up in an apartment building where neighbors were more than happy to report Jews to the Gestapo.
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Astonishing memory
- By sadith on 27-08-21
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The Hands of War
- A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
- Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-02-13
- Language: English
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- By: Thomas L. Friedman
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall131
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Performance111
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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of Thank You for Being Late by Thomas L. Friedman, read by Oliver Wyman. From the Pulitzer Prize winner and No.1 international bestselling author of The World is Flat, an essential and entertaining field guide to thriving in the...
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Beautiful book
- By S K. on 28-08-17
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Thank You for Being Late
- An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 12-01-17
- Language: English
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Stalin: History in an Hour
- By: Rupert Colley
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall138
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Performance119
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Story115
Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. Arguably no person in history had such a direct and negative impact on the lives of so many as Joseph Stalin. Under the Red Tsar terror knew no limits, it did not discriminate; no one was safe, no institution, no single town or village was...
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A good short introduction to a monster
- By Wras on 01-05-16
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Stalin: History in an Hour
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 1 hr and 26 mins
- Release date: 08-01-13
- Language: English
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1873
- The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World
- By: Liaquat Ahamed
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall1
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From the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lords of Finance comes a brilliant account of the earliest truly global financial calamity. On Friday, 9 May 1873 the Vienna stock market collapsed. Four months later Wall Street was in trouble. Elsewhere, as panic selling spread across financial...
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1873
- The First Great Depression and the Making of the Modern World
- Narrated by: George Newbern
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 11-06-26
- Language: English
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Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)
- An Abbreviated Life
- By: Mark Kishlansky
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Charles I: An Abbreviated Life by Mark Kishlansky, read by John Sackville. The tragedy of Charles I dominates one of the most strange and painful periods in British history as the whole island tore itself apart over a deadly, entangled series of...
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Brilliant from start to finish
- By michael Billington on 25-06-22
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Charles I (Penguin Monarchs)
- An Abbreviated Life
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Series: Penguin Monarchs
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-06-18
- Language: English
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Passchendaele
- The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917
- By: Lyn Macdonald
- Narrated by: Alison Dowling
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall60
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Performance53
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Four years of war turned Ypres into a ghost town. Not a leaf grew on a tree. Scarcely one stone stood upon another. From the battered ramparts the eye swept clean across a field of rubble to the swamp-lands beyond . . .' The Third Battle of Ypres, ending in a...
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A story that needed to be told
- By MR JAMES PARIS on 29-01-21
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Passchendaele
- The Story of the Third Battle of Ypres 1917
- Narrated by: Alison Dowling
- Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 03-12-20
- Language: English
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Upstairs & Downstairs
- My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid
- By: Tim Tate, Hilda Newman
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall283
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Performance251
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The year was 1935: the twilight of the English aristocracy. It was a time of wealth and glamour; of lavish balls and evening gowns; of tiaras and a coronation. As personal maid to Lady Coventry, Hilda Newman had a unique insight into the leisured life of one of Britain's most noble families. In...
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Mildly interesting
- By Amazon Customer on 01-10-19
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Upstairs & Downstairs
- My Life In Service as a Lady's Maid
- Narrated by: Helen Lloyd
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 19-09-19
- Language: English
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Blood Red Snow
- The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- By: Günter K. Koschorrek
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall586
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Performance532
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Gunter K. Koschorrek was a machine-gunner on the Russian front in WWII. He wrote his illicit diary on any scraps of paper he could lay his hands on. As keeping a diary was strictly forbidden, he sewed the pages into the lining of his thick winter coat and deposited them with his mother on infrequent trips home on leave. The diary went missing, and it was when he was reunited with his daughter in America some 40 years later that it came to light and became Blood Red Snow.
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If you like the Eastern front then you’ll like this book
- By Jayceon1888 on 29-08-18
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Blood Red Snow
- The Memoirs of a German Soldier on the Eastern Front
- Narrated by: Nigel Patterson
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 24-07-18
- Language: English
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Achtung Panzer!
- By: Heinz Guderian
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance23
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This is one of the most significant military books of the twentieth century. By an outstanding soldier of independent mind, it pushed forward the evolution of land warfare and was directly responsible for German armoured supremacy in the early years of the Second World War. Published in 1937...
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Great Material
- By Kane on 16-10-25
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Achtung Panzer!
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 10 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 30-01-20
- Language: English
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- or The Murder at Road Hill House
- By: Kate Summerscale
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall77
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Performance69
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Bloomsbury presents this Unabridged version of The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher by Kate Summerscale, read by Jessica Ball. FROM BRITAIN’S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A RICHARD AND...
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Lots of fascinating info. PDF only viewable on PC
- By Steffi in Oz on 21-03-21
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher
- or The Murder at Road Hill House
- Narrated by: Jessica Ball
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-10-19
- Language: English
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The War Against the Jews
- 1933-1945
- By: Lucy S. Dawidowicz
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance15
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Lucy Dawidowicz's groundbreaking The War Against the Jews inspired waves of both acclaim and controversy upon its release in 1975. Dawidowicz argues that genocide was, to the Nazis, as central a war goal as conquering Europe, and was made possible by a combination of political, social, and technological factors. She explores the full history of Hitler's "Final Solution", from the rise of anti-Semitism to the creation of Jewish ghettos to the brutal tactics of mass murder employed by the Nazis.
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Makes you think
- By JoJo Belson on 11-06-23
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The War Against the Jews
- 1933-1945
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 23 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 17-08-21
- Language: English
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- By: Adam Tooze
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall118
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Performance98
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"Masterful . . . [A] painstakingly researched, astonishingly erudite study…Tooze has added his name to the roll call of top-class scholars of Nazism." —Financial Times An extraordinary mythology has grown up around the Third Reich that hovers over political and moral debate even today. Adam...
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Genuinely brilliant
- By Derrick on 29-11-21
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The Wages of Destruction
- The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
- Narrated by: Adam Tooze, Simon Vance
- Length: 30 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 03-08-21
- Language: English
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Mosquito Men
- The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron
- By: David Price
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall64
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Performance58
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The story of one of the most remarkable–and feared–British aircraft of the Second World War: the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito fighter-bomber.
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A remarkable story
- By FAB on 16-03-23
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Mosquito Men
- The Elite Pathfinders of 627 Squadron
- Narrated by: Greg Wagland
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 07-12-22
- Language: English
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The French Revolution
- A Political History
- By: John Hardman
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1786, France's ancien régime was functioning as usual. Its alliance with the victorious American colonies had restored its diplomatic prestige, the economy seemed to be flourishing, and internal politics seemed quiet. But just a few short years later, the dynasty which had ruled France for over 800 years was swept away. What happened to cause such devastating change to the long-established political structure?
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The French Revolution
- A Political History
- Narrated by: Jennifer M. Dixon
- Length: 13 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 11-11-25
- Language: English
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- By: Lawrence Wright
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall78
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Performance69
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With the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright became generally acknowledged as one of our major journalists writing on terrorism in the Middle East. Here, in ten powerful pieces first published in The New Yorker, he recalls the path that terror in the Middle East has taken...
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Yawn!
- By Stu F on 14-12-19
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The Terror Years
- From al-Qaeda to the Islamic State
- Narrated by: John H. Mayer, Lawrence Wright
- Length: 17 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 23-08-16
- Language: English
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive in WW2
- By: Lucy Adlington
- Narrated by: Lucy Adlington
- Length: 12 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall80
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Performance75
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The breathtakingly moving true story of the women who created a fashion workshop within one of WWII's most notorious death camps - and sewed to survive the Holocaust. 'Such a powerful book, so much pain, strong ladies, so much detail, I have read many books on Auschwitz but this one will stay...
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*Horrific*
- By Jaye22 on 21-05-23
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The Dressmakers of Auschwitz
- The Extraordinary True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive in WW2
- Narrated by: Lucy Adlington
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 02-09-21
- Language: English
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