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Love in the Blitz

The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved on the Front

by Eileen Alexander ...

Experience romance and wartime London in the collected letters between two English lovers separated while serving their country during World War II.On July 17, 1939, Eileen Alexander, a recent Cambridge graduate, writes a letter to fellow student Gershon Ellenbogen. It is the beginning of a stirring correspondence that lasts seven years, through the darkest days of World War II, and spans many ... Read more

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Experience romance and wartime London in the collected letters between two English lovers separated while serving their country during World War II.On July 17, 1939, Eileen Alexander, a recent Cambridge graduate, writes a letter to fellow student Gershon Ellenbogen. It is the beginning of a stirring correspondence that lasts seven years, through the darkest days of World War II, and spans many
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Love in the Blitz

The Long-Lost Letters of a Brilliant Young Woman to Her Beloved on the Front

by Eileen Alexander ...

Narrated by Stephanie Racine, Oswyn Murray, Sian Clifford ...

Unabridged

21 hours

On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters.But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the ... Read more

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On July 17th 1939, Eileen Alexander, a bright young woman recently graduated from Girton College, Cambridge, begins a brilliant correspondence with fellow Cambridge student Gershon Ellenbogen that lasts five years and spans many hundreds of letters.But as Eileen and Gershon’s relationship flourishes from friendship and admiration into passion and love, the tensions between Germany, Russia, and the
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

by Thomas Geve ...

Narrated by Mark Meadows ...

Unabridged

9 hours 12 min

An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald and recorded his experiences through words and color drawings.In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in ... Read more

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An inspiring true story of hope and survival, this is the testimony of a boy who was imprisoned in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald and recorded his experiences through words and color drawings.In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in
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Shadowlands

A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages

by Matthew Green ...

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9 hours 55 min

Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life.Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across ... Read more

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Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain's eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life.Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across
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The Grandes Dames

by Stephen Birmingham ...

Narrated by Cory Herndon ...

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11 hours 32 min

The acclaimed social historian provides an in-depth look at eight society women who shaped upper class culture from the Gilded Age to WWII.Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. Family names that still adorn buildings, streets, and charity foundations. While their men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and symphonies ... Read more

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The acclaimed social historian provides an in-depth look at eight society women who shaped upper class culture from the Gilded Age to WWII.Astor. Rockefeller. McCormick. Belmont. Family names that still adorn buildings, streets, and charity foundations. While their men blazed across America with their oil, industry, and railways, the matriarchs founded art museums, opera houses, and symphonies
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Facing the Dawn

by Cynthia Ruchti ...

Narrated by Libby McKnight ...

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10 hours 6 min

While her humanitarian husband Liam has been digging wells in Africa, Mara Jacobs has been struggling. She knows she’s supposed to feel a warm glow thather husband is eight time zones away, caring for widows and orphans. But she is exhausted, working a demanding yet unrewarding job, trying to manage theirthree detention-prone and needy kids, failing at her to-repair list, and fading like a garment ... Read more

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While her humanitarian husband Liam has been digging wells in Africa, Mara Jacobs has been struggling. She knows she’s supposed to feel a warm glow thather husband is eight time zones away, caring for widows and orphans. But she is exhausted, working a demanding yet unrewarding job, trying to manage theirthree detention-prone and needy kids, failing at her to-repair list, and fading like a garment
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The Paris Girl

The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero

by Francelle Bradford White ...

Narrated by Bronwen Price ...

Unabridged

8 hours 28 min

Andrée Griotteray was nineteen when the Germans invaded France and occupied Paris, where she worked as a clerk in the passport office. When her younger brother, Alain, created a resistance network named Orion, Andrée joined his efforts, secretly typing up and printing copies of an underground newspaper, and stealing ID cards which allowed scores of Jewish citizens to escape persecution.Charming ... Read more

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Andrée Griotteray was nineteen when the Germans invaded France and occupied Paris, where she worked as a clerk in the passport office. When her younger brother, Alain, created a resistance network named Orion, Andrée joined his efforts, secretly typing up and printing copies of an underground newspaper, and stealing ID cards which allowed scores of Jewish citizens to escape persecution.Charming
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Hitler's Hangman

The Life of Heydrich

by Robert Gerwarth ...

Narrated by Napoleon Ryan ...

Unabridged

16 hours 10 min

Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth 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. ... Read more

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Reinhard Heydrich is widely recognized as one of the great iconic villains of the twentieth 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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The Paris Girl

The Young Woman Who Outwitted the Nazis and Became a WWII Hero

by Francelle Bradford White ...

Movingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier. For readers of Three Ordinary Girls, A Woman of No Importance, Lis Parisiennes, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line, ... Read more

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Movingly written by her own daughter, this captivating and intimate biography chronicles the astonishing courage Andrée Griotteray, a teenage girl in Nazi-occupied Paris who would become a hero of the French Resistance through her harrowing work as an underground intelligence courier. For readers of Three Ordinary Girls, A Woman of No Importance, Lis Parisiennes, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line,
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The Boy Who Drew Auschwitz

A Powerful True Story of Hope and Survival

by Thomas Geve ...

A real account of a boy's life during the Holocaust in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald, recorded in his own words and color drawings.In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in the men's camp of Auschwitz I.During twenty-two harsh months ... Read more

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A real account of a boy's life during the Holocaust in Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen and Buchenwald, recorded in his own words and color drawings.In June 1943, after long years of hardship and persecution, thirteen-year-old Thomas Geve and his mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Separated upon arrival, he was left to fend for himself in the men's camp of Auschwitz I.During twenty-two harsh months
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The Girl in the Red Coat

A Memoir

by Roma Ligocka ...

"This poignant [Holocaust memoir] does honor to all children bewildered by horrorand injustice." —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's ListWhen she first saw Schindler's List—to whose premiere in Germany she was invited—Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life. She felt instinctively that the little girl in the red coat—the only spot of color in the film—was her. ... Read more

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"This poignant [Holocaust memoir] does honor to all children bewildered by horrorand injustice." —Thomas Keneally, author of Schindler's ListWhen she first saw Schindler's List—to whose premiere in Germany she was invited—Roma Ligocka suddenly realized she was witnessing a part of her own life. She felt instinctively that the little girl in the red coat—the only spot of color in the film—was her.
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Beyond This Place of Wrath and Tears

by Jack Ford ...

From award-winning journalist Jack Ford, a riveting and colorful dual timeline novel of Lee Carson, the heroic yet elusive female journalist who defied convention and danger to report from the front lines of WWII, combining breathtaking wartime narrative with a compelling Cold War espionage tale for fans of Christine Mangan, Pam Jenoff, Erika Robuck, and Kate Quinn.Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee ... Read more

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From award-winning journalist Jack Ford, a riveting and colorful dual timeline novel of Lee Carson, the heroic yet elusive female journalist who defied convention and danger to report from the front lines of WWII, combining breathtaking wartime narrative with a compelling Cold War espionage tale for fans of Christine Mangan, Pam Jenoff, Erika Robuck, and Kate Quinn.Washington, DC, April 1954: Lee
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