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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- By: Giles Whittell
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962? Bridge of Spies is the true story of those men - Rudolf Abel, a Soviet Spy who was a master of disguise; Gary Powers, an American who was captured when his spy plane was shot down; and Frederic Pryor, a young American doctor mistakenly identified as a spy. They had been drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten.
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Beyond dull.
- By Mr. on 13-04-18
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Bridge of Spies
- A True Story of the Cold War
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 06-04-12
- Language: English
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Can Europe Survive?
- The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World
- By: David Marsh
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Today, Europe finds itself in a fast-changing, polarized world dominated by Chinese-American rivalry. The European Union and its surrounding nonmember states, despite initial successes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, have failed to implement a strategy for success in the twenty-first century. Britain's exit from the Union has weakened both sides, and Russia's invasion of Ukraine has thrown these shortcomings into sharp relief. How should states across the continent position themselves in the decades to come?
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Can Europe Survive?
- The Story of a Continent in a Fractured World
- Narrated by: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 18 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 28-04-26
- Language: English
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Never Surrender
- Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940
- By: John Kelly
- Narrated by: Gordon Greenhill
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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London in April, 1940, was a place of great fear and conflict. Everyone was on edge; civilization itself seemed imperiled. The Germans are marching. They have taken Poland, France, Holland, Belgium, and Czechoslovakia. They now menace Britain. Should Britain negotiate with Germany? The members of the War Cabinet bicker, yell, lose their control, and are divided. Churchill, leading the faction to fight, and Lord Halifax, cautioning that prudence is the way to survive, attempt to usurp one another by any means possible.
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Nothing groundbreaking but a good book
- By Martin Pearce on 15-12-23
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Never Surrender
- Winston Churchill and Britain's Decision to Fight Nazi Germany in the Fateful Summer of 1940
- Narrated by: Gordon Greenhill
- Length: 10 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 20-10-15
- Language: English
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Globalists
- The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- By: Quinn Slobodian
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance44
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In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, author Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level.
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Gets there in the end
- By Frank Amin on 29-07-22
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Globalists
- The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 11 hrs and 15 mins
- Release date: 12-06-18
- Language: English
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Crucible of Hell
- Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: William Roberts, Saul David - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall100
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Performance90
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‘Excellent’ Antony Beevor ‘Saul David is a brilliant historian … In shocking and jaw-dropping detail, he brings a battle that deserves far greater prominence and understanding vividly back to life’ James Holland From award-winning historian Saul David, an action-packed and powerful new...
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Download the book in parts
- By Matt on 06-04-20
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Crucible of Hell
- Okinawa: The Last Great Battle of the Second World War
- Narrated by: William Roberts, Saul David - introduction
- Length: 15 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 02-04-20
- Language: English
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall58
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Performance48
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These selections from the many writings of Thomas Sowell over a period of half a century cover social, economic, cultural, legal, educational, and political issues. The sources range from Dr. Sowell’s letters, books, newspaper columns, and articles in both scholarly journals and popular magazines. The topics range from latetalking children to tax cuts for the rich, baseball, race, war, the role of judges, medical care, and the rhetoric of politicians.
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Grateful.
- By Elspeth on 05-09-19
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The Thomas Sowell Reader
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 14 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 04-10-11
- Language: English
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- By: Clare Jackson
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Brought to you by Penguin. A major reassessment of one of Britain’s most strange and fascinating kings, James I of England and VI of Scotland James VI & I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britain’s most consequential and interesting monarchs, not least in creating the British monarchy...
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The Mirror of Great Britain
- A Life of James VI & I
- Narrated by: Emma Gregory
- Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 28-08-25
- Language: English
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The Other Olympians
- A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport
- By: Michael Waters
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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In December 1935, Zdenek Koubek, one of the most famous sprinters in European women’s sports, declared he was now living as a man. Around the same time, the celebrated British field athlete Mark Weston, also assigned female at birth, announced that he, too, was a man. Periodicals and radio programs across the world carried the news; both became global celebrities. A few decades later, they were all but forgotten. In The Other Olympians, Michael Waters uncovers, for the first time, the gripping true stories of Koubek, Weston, and other pioneering trans and intersex athletes from their era.
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The Other Olympians
- A True Story of Gender, Fascism and the Making of Modern Sport
- Narrated by: Jennifer Pickens
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 06-06-24
- Language: English
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The Mission
- The CIA in the 21st Century
- By: Tim Weiner
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance28
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'No one has opened up the CIA to us like Weiner has, and The Mission deserves to win him a second Pulitzer' JOHN SIMPSON, GUARDIAN The epic successor to Tim Weiner’s National Book Award-winning classic, Legacy of Ashes: a gripping and revelatory history of the CIA in the 21st century...
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superb!
- By Dr A Non on 03-10-25
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The Mission
- The CIA in the 21st Century
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 17 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 17-07-25
- Language: English
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The Pianist
- By: Wladyslaw Szpilman
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall83
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Performance69
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On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside - so loudly that he couldn't hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: that day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble.
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Lest we Forget.
- By Patricia on 20-09-25
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The Pianist
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 6 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 09-08-18
- Language: English
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Bring on United
- Ferguson’s Golden Generation in their Own Words
- By: Andy Mitten, Ruud van Nistelrooy - introduction
- Narrated by: Matthew McNulty
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall43
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Performance40
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How Manchester United conquered all, by the players who won everything ______________________________________________________________ With a foreword by Ruud van Nistelrooy An Irish Times Bestseller The Champions League, the Club World Cup, 6 Premier League Titles, 1 FA Cup, 3 League Cups, 4...
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Glory Glory Man United
- By Mr M. on 29-12-24
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Bring on United
- Ferguson’s Golden Generation in their Own Words
- Narrated by: Matthew McNulty
- Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 07-11-24
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- By: Mike Rapport
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Unabridged
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Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the rising Eiffel Tower and Sacré-Coeur Basilica, while at night they roamed the Bohemian world of the Moulin Rouge. But as Mike Rapport reveals in this authoritative and beautifully written new history, City of Light, City of Shadows, beneath the elegant veneer Paris was at war with itself.
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Fast paced evocative story for our times.
- By Campesque on 01-06-24
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City of Light, City of Shadows
- Paris in the Belle Époque
- Narrated by: Paul Daintry
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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Thorns, Lust and Glory
- The betrayal of Anne Boleyn
- By: Estelle Paranque
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance14
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Brought to you by Penguin. A queen on the edge. Anne Boleyn has mesmerised the English public for centuries. Her tragic execution, orchestrated by her own husband, never ceases to intrigue. How did this courtier's daughter become the queen of England, and what was it that really tore apart this...
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Poorly treated and manipulated by men it seems
- By T R Stock on 28-08-25
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Thorns, Lust and Glory
- The betrayal of Anne Boleyn
- Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 02-05-24
- Language: English
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The Outpost
- The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War
- By: Jake Tapper
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall54
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Performance44
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The heartbreaking and inspiring story of one of the deadliest battles of the Afghanistan war, acclaimed by critics as a classic. ‘A mind-boggling, all-too-true story of heroism, hubris, failed strategy, and heartbreaking sacrifice’ Jon Krakauer, author of Into the...
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Great
- By Anonymous on 15-01-21
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The Outpost
- The Most Heroic Battle of the Afghanistan War
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 22 hrs and 17 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War
- By: Tim Rowland
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall8
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Performance8
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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War is an entertaining look at the Civil War stories that don’t get told, and the misadventures you haven’t read about in history books. Share in all the humorous and strange events that took place behind the scenes of some of the most famous Civil War moments.
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Strange and Obscure Stories of the Civil War
- Narrated by: Fred Sanders
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 27-01-13
- Language: English
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Occupied
- The Horrors of Civilian Life Under Nazi Rule
- By: Cyril Marlen
- Narrated by: Lt Colonel Tom Briggs US Army ret
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall85
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Performance54
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What does it mean to live under the boot of an occupying army? Not as a soldier, not as a politician, but as a mother, a student, a shopkeeper, or a child—trying to survive while your world is dismantled around you. In Occupied: The Horrors Of Civilian Life Under Nazi Rule, historian Cyril Marlen offers an unflinching and deeply human account of what it was like for ordinary people trapped beneath the Nazi regime during World War II.
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Unseen Lives
- By Farzana Swan on 29-04-26
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Occupied
- The Horrors of Civilian Life Under Nazi Rule
- Narrated by: Lt Colonel Tom Briggs US Army ret
- Series: Everything World War 2 - WWII, Book 3
- Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 28-07-25
- Language: English
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In the Shadow of the Empress
- The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
- By: Nancy Goldstone
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall29
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Performance27
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In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg empire in her own name, and three of her remarkable daughters: lovely, talented Maria Christina, governor general of the Austrian Netherlands; spirited Maria...
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A very enjoyable book flawed by annoying omissions.
- By JONATHAN B BAILEY on 20-09-22
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In the Shadow of the Empress
- The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
- Narrated by: Emma Newman
- Length: 23 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 16-09-21
- Language: English
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- By: Carole Angier
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall12
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Performance10
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Bloomsbury presents Speak, Silence by Carole Angier, read by Kristin Atherton. A SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN AND THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘The best biography I have read in years' Philippe Sands ‘Spectacular’ Observer ‘A remarkable portrait’ Guardian W. G. Sebald was one of the most...
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Strange book, poorly read.
- By Everyone'sacritic7 on 13-01-22
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Speak, Silence
- In Search of W. G. Sebald
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 19 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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Maoism
- A Global History
- By: Julia Lovell
- Narrated by: Nancy Wu
- Length: 21 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall56
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Performance47
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For decades, the West has dismissed Maoism as an outdated historical and political phenomenon. Since the 1980s, China seems to have abandoned the utopian turmoil of Mao’s revolution in favour of authoritarian capitalism. But Mao and his ideas remain central to the People’s Republic and the legitimacy of its Communist government. With disagreements and conflicts between China and the West on the rise, the need to understand the political legacy of Mao is urgent and growing.
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Pure propoganda
- By Jay Blake on 12-12-19
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The Survivor
- How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller
- By: Josef Lewkowicz, Michael Calvin
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance46
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Brought to you by Penguin. One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit, unshakeable faith, and extraordinary courage in the face of evil. At only sixteen years old, Josef Lewkowicz became a number, prisoner 85314...
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The light of life
- By Keith Paterson on 15-06-23
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The Survivor
- How I Survived Six Concentration Camps and Became a Nazi Hunter - The Sunday Times Bestseller
- Narrated by: Laurence Dobiesz
- Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 30-03-23
- Language: English
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