- Title:
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In Their Own Words: Letters from History (MP3)
- Written by:
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The National Archives
- Read by:
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Miriam Margolyes; Indira Varma; David Haig; Daniel Mays; Arthur Smith; Robert Bathurst
- Format:
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Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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1
- Duration:
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7 hours 23 minutes
- MP3 size:
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306 MB
- Published:
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December 28 2016
- Available Date:
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December 28 2016
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489373540
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; History
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Price
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'The reader is guaranteed a different and compelling story every time, making this book something to treasure. It s like holding a piece of history in your hands.'
All About History magazine
This collection of letters, postcards and telegrams will shine a spotlight on a range of significant historical moments and occurrences, recapturing a lost world in which correspondence was king.
The collection includes letters from Karl Marx, requesting UK citizenship; an anonymous writer purporting to be Jack the Ripper; Josef Kramer, the commandant of Bergen Belsen; Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt, requesting US support against Hitler; Clement Atlee to Harry S Truman following Hiroshima; the spies Burgess and Maclean; as well as the 'real Charlotte Gray' spy, Christine Granville, amongst others.
Topics covered include the Monteagle letter that warned about the Gunpowder plot, letters from the Wright brothers trying to get the War Office to fund their aeronautical research, a dispatch on the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Christine Keeler's Russian-British love triangle that begat the Profumo affair, US disapproval of British trade with Cuba, a letter reporting on the first day of the trial of Nelson Mandela and the anonymous letter that framed the Krays.