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Tatiana and Alexander
- The Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander....
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Action, Love and War
- By Tilly on 27-04-2024
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Hothouse Flower
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
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Georgian mansion Wharton Park was a place of childhood solace for Julia Forrester, spending summers in the Norfolk countryside with her beloved grandfather....
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Captivating
- By Leanne on 15-04-2024
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The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
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Held my all the way to the end
- By Donna Skelton on 21-09-2020
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The Summer Garden
- Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 30 hrs and 2 mins
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Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals....
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The end to my favourite love story
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-2024
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The Keeper of Happy Endings
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman, Hope Newhouse
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls....
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Captivating Story and incredible narration
- By Sunds on 16-10-2023
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Tatiana and Alexander
- The Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 2
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 18 hrs and 48 mins
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Paullina Simons's internationally bestselling blockbuster The Bronze Horseman told the heart-soaring tale of a young Russian woman's transcendent love affair with a Red Army soldier during the siege of Leningrad in the dark days of World War Two. The epic story continues in Tatiana and Alexander....
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Action, Love and War
- By Tilly on 27-04-2024
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Hothouse Flower
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Stephanie Racine
- Length: 19 hrs and 43 mins
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Georgian mansion Wharton Park was a place of childhood solace for Julia Forrester, spending summers in the Norfolk countryside with her beloved grandfather....
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Captivating
- By Leanne on 15-04-2024
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The Light Behind the Window
- By: Lucinda Riley
- Narrated by: Miranda Raison
- Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
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The present: Emilie de la Martiniéres has always fought against her aristocratic background, but after the death of her glamorous, distant mother, she finds herself alone in the world and sole inheritor of her grand childhood home in the south of France....
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Held my all the way to the end
- By Donna Skelton on 21-09-2020
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The Summer Garden
- Bronze Horseman Trilogy, Book 3
- By: Paullina Simons
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 30 hrs and 2 mins
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Through years of war and devastation, Tatiana and Alexander suffered the worst the twentieth century had to offer. Miraculously reunited in America, they now have a beautiful son, Anthony, the gift of a love strong enough to survive the most terrible upheavals....
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The end to my favourite love story
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-2024
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The Keeper of Happy Endings
- By: Barbara Davis
- Narrated by: Robin Siegerman, Hope Newhouse
- Length: 15 hrs and 2 mins
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An enchanting novel about fate, second chances, and hope, lost and found, by the Amazon Charts bestselling author of The Last of the Moon Girls....
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Captivating Story and incredible narration
- By Sunds on 16-10-2023
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Dark Shadows Over Coronation Close
- Coronation Close, Book 3
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Anne Dover
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Bristol 1938. A shadowy presence overshadows Coronation Close, watching and waiting. Jenny Crawford is the first to notice the stranger and wonders why his attention is fixed on Thelma Dawson’s house. When challenged he makes a hasty retreat....
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A Wedding for the Bomber Girls
- Bomber Command Girls, Book 2
- By: Vicki Beeby
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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At RAF Fenthorpe, instrument repairer Thea is helping her sister, Pearl, plan her wedding alongside fellow WAAF and maid of honour Jenny. A misfit amongst the women on the base, though, Thea is struggling to get others onboard.
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The Tuscan Child
- By: Rhys Bowen
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Katy Sobey
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
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From New York Times best-selling author Rhys Bowen comes a haunting novel about a woman who braves her father's hidden past to discover his secrets....
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The Tuscan Child
- By Annette C on 24-03-2018
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Agent in Peril
- The Wolf Pack Spies 2
- By: Alex Gerlis
- Narrated by: Duncan Galloway
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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To what lengths will the British go to smuggle a secret weapon into Nazi Germany? An unmissable Second World War thriller from bestseller Alex Gerlis...
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Very entertaining
- By Anonymous User on 31-08-2023
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Breaking Point
- A Novel of the Battle of Britain
- By: John Rhodes
- Narrated by: Evie Butcher
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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1940, World War II. The Nazis have crushed Europe, and Hitler launches a massive aerial assault with the Luftwaffe against the heavily outnumbered British RAF. The fate of civilization teeters in the balance....
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Let down by poor recording
- By Rod Dolley on 01-05-2024
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Raider
- Combined Operations, Book 2
- By: Griff Hosker
- Narrated by: Nicholas Camm
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
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It is 1940 and Britain is fighting alone against the Germans. With the RAF fighting above the skies of England, it is down to the Commandos to go back to France and cause as much trouble to the Germans as possible....
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Beyond That, the Sea
- A Novel
- By: Laura Spence-Ash
- Narrated by: Ell Potter
- Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
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A sweeping, tenderhearted love story, Beyond That, the Sea by Laura Spence-Ash tells the story of two families living through World War II on opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, and the shy, irresistible young woman who will call them both her own....
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Wonderful
- By michele taylor on 25-06-2023
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Penny's Secret Mission
- Women and War, Book 2
- By: Rachel Wesson
- Narrated by: Charlie Sanderson
- Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
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Penny is hell-bent on revenge on the man who caused her to flee France as a fourteen-year-old with little more than the clothes on her back. She lost everything, her friends, her home and her family....
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The Three Sisters of Victory Walk
- The Three Sisters, Book 1
- By: Annie Groves
- Narrated by: Alex Tregear
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front. As rationing, blackouts and bombs start to bite, life will change forever for the three sisters....
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A good read
- By Psalteryschool on 27-01-2024
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A Child Far from Home
- By: Lizzie Page
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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England 1939: A heart-wrenching story of a mother and daughter separated by war, and finding hope in the darkest of times.
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The Fortunate Ones
- Beautiful and Heartbreaking World War 2 Historical Fiction
- By: Catherine Hokin
- Narrated by: Jasmine Blackborow
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Berlin, 1941. Felix Thalberg, a printer’s apprentice, has the weight of the world on his shoulders. Then one night, Felix meets a mysterious young woman in a crowded dance hall, and his life is changed forever....
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Heartbreaking
- By Anonymous User on 11-04-2022
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And Fire Falls
- Frontier, Book 9
- By: Peter Watt
- Narrated by: John Voce
- Length: 12 hrs and 34 mins
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In Sydney, siblings Donald and Sarah Macintosh battle for their father's approval, and control of his empire, while their cousin David fights the enemy across the continents....
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A Great Book!
- By Anonymous User on 13-12-2022
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The Last Green Valley
- A Novel
- By: Mark Sullivan
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
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From the author of the number one best seller Beneath a Scarlet Sky comes a new historical novel inspired by one family’s incredible story of daring, survival, and triumph....
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Great story but needed better editing
- By Meriel Cavanagh on 25-01-2024
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The Two Loves of Sophie Strom
- By: Sam Taylor
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Jot Davies
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
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In one unforgettable night, Max Spiegelman's life splits in two. As war looms and Nazism continues to rise, Max is forced into choices that place him and his alter ego on opposing sides of a divided world.
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The Tuscan Orphan
- By: Siobhan Daiko
- Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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1944 - When an air raid strikes the hospital she’s been working in, Carrie’s life irrevocably changes. But as a nurse in the middle of wartime, she has no time to grieve, as she has too many people relying on her....
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A Wartime Family
- Mary Anne Randall, Book 2
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Julia Franklin
- Length: 11 hrs and 9 mins
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Bristol 1941. Having left her abusive husband for very good reasons, Mary Anne Randall finds herself judged harshly by her friends and neighbours, after courageously risking everything for a second chance at happiness....
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The Berlin Sisters
- By: Soraya M. Lane
- Narrated by: Sarah Zimmerman
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
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From the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife comes a story of bravery, sacrifice and resilience in war-torn Berlin—and two sisters who will risk it all to make a difference....
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The Lost Diary
- By: Rose Alexander
- Narrated by: Naomi Frederick
- Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
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As the ground shakes and the air raid sirens wail, Katja holds her tiny baby to her chest. She pictures Karl’s handsome face and kind blue eyes, her breath catching at the thought of him heading back to the front. She must never tell anyone about the letters she delivered for him....
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Winter at Bletchley Park
- Bletchley Park Girls, Book 2
- By: Molly Green
- Narrated by: Lucy Scott
- Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
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The second inspiring novel in the heartwarming and hopeful Bletchley Park Girls series from the queen of saga, Molly Green....
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a bletchley blunder
- By Amazon Customer on 31-12-2022
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The Midnight House
- By: Amanda Geard
- Narrated by: Caitlin Shannon
- Length: 14 hrs and 5 mins
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1940: In south-west Ireland, the young and beautiful Lady Charlotte Rathmore is pronounced dead after she mysteriously disappears by the lake of Blackwater Hall. 2019: Decades later, Ellie Fitzgerald is forced to leave Dublin disgraced and heartbroken....
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The Last Restaurant in Paris
- By: Lily Graham
- Narrated by: Polly Edsell
- Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
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Paris, 1944. To save her people, she served the enemy....
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Food for thought
- By Catherine Clarke on 14-02-2023
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The Orphan's Tale
- A Novel
- By: Pam Jenoff
- Narrated by: Jennifer Wydra, Kyla Garcia
- Length: 12 hrs and 52 mins
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Sixteen-year-old Noa has been cast out in disgrace after becoming pregnant by a Nazi soldier and being forced to give up her baby. She lives above a small rail station, which she cleans....
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Fantastic!
- By Denise Young on 11-09-2018
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One Woman's War
- A Novel of the Real Miss Moneypenny
- By: Christine Wells
- Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
- Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
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From the author of Sisters of the Resistance comes the story of WWII British Naval Intelligence officer Victoire Bennett, the real-life inspiration for the James Bond character Miss Moneypenny, whose international covert operation is put in jeopardy....
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In the Shadow of Victory
- Shadow Series, Book 4
- By: J.E. Leak
- Narrated by: Abby Craden
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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As OSS agents Kathryn Hammond and Jenny Ryan navigate the dangerous world of espionage, they are faced with the ultimate test of love and loyalty.
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Amazing
- By Anonymous User on 12-04-2024
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To Sing of War
- By: Catherine McKinnon
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
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The Last Boat Home
- By: Rachel Sweasey
- Narrated by: Gloria Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
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When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.
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The Sower of Black Field
- Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- By: Katherine Koch
- Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule.
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Time Walker
- In the President's Service, Book 19
- By: Ace Collins
- Narrated by: Ace Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In late 1943, Helen Meeker’s team reunites to uncover the reason why a man refuses the Medal of Honor he deserves. Unraveling this mystery takes Meeker and her team on a life and death chase. Their original, seemingly simple case quickly explodes into a complex adventure where they must find a man called Horse, uncover why Hitler hired a mobster to contribute to the Nazi cause, face a legendary hit man who wants to add them to his list of victims, and perhaps uncover a treasure once sought by the Spanish Conquistadors.
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The Constant Soldier
- By: William Ryan
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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1944. Paul Brandt, a German soldier, returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners. When Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realises that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.
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The Librarians of Rue de Picardie
- By: Janet Skeslien Charles
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Jackie Sanders, Marin Ireland, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women determined to rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen - children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.
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To Sing of War
- By: Catherine McKinnon
- Narrated by: Annabelle Tudor
- Length: 15 hrs and 53 mins
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DECEMBER 1944 In New Guinea, a young Australian nurse, Lotte Wyld, chances upon her first love, Virgil Nicholson, a soldier in the Allies' hard-fought jungle campaign. At Los Alamos in the United States, idealistic physicists Miriam Carver and Fred Johnson join Robert Oppenheimer and a team of brilliant scientists in a collective dream to build a weapon that will stop all war, while Kitty Oppenheimer wrestles with restrictions on her freedom. And on the sacred island of Miyajima in Japan, Hiroko Narushima is doing her best to protect her family.
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The Last Boat Home
- By: Rachel Sweasey
- Narrated by: Gloria Sanders
- Length: 10 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them. But Alfie is declared missing, presumed dead, and Daisy must learn to live as a widow. Then a chance encounter with a French soldier throws Daisy’s life even further off course, with heartbreaking consequences that will span generations.
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The Sower of Black Field
- Inspired by the True Story of an American in Nazi Germany
- By: Katherine Koch
- Narrated by: Joanna Teljeur
- Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
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Throughout the Third Reich, millions of Germans pledged allegiance to Adolf Hitler. In the Bavarian village of Schwarzenfeld, they followed an American citizen. As he struggles to rekindle the faith of a guilt-ridden Wehrmacht veteran, a morose widow, and her grieving teenage son, Fr. Viktor Koch, C.P. is haunted by self-doubt. What is driving him to stay in the Third Reich? Is he following a higher plan, or the mystic compulsion of his German heritage? Exposed to American ideals, his parishioners grow restless under Nazi rule.
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Time Walker
- In the President's Service, Book 19
- By: Ace Collins
- Narrated by: Ace Collins
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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In late 1943, Helen Meeker’s team reunites to uncover the reason why a man refuses the Medal of Honor he deserves. Unraveling this mystery takes Meeker and her team on a life and death chase. Their original, seemingly simple case quickly explodes into a complex adventure where they must find a man called Horse, uncover why Hitler hired a mobster to contribute to the Nazi cause, face a legendary hit man who wants to add them to his list of victims, and perhaps uncover a treasure once sought by the Spanish Conquistadors.
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The Constant Soldier
- By: William Ryan
- Narrated by: Seán Barrett
- Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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1944. Paul Brandt, a German soldier, returns wounded and ashamed from the chaos of the Eastern front to find his village home existing in the dark shadow of an SS rest hut - a luxurious retreat for those who manage the concentration camps, run with the help of a small group of female prisoners. When Brandt glimpses one of these prisoners, he realises that he must find a way to access the hut. For inside is the woman to whom his fate has been tied since their arrest five years before, and now he must do all he can to protect her.
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The Librarians of Rue de Picardie
- By: Janet Skeslien Charles
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Jackie Sanders, Marin Ireland, and others
- Length: 9 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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1918: As the Great War rages, Jessie Carson takes a leave of absence from the New York Public Library to work for the American Committee for Devastated France, a group of women determined to rebuild devastated French communities just miles from the front. Upon arrival, Jessie strives to establish something that the French have never seen - children's libraries. She turns ambulances into bookmobiles and trains the first French female librarians. Then she disappears.
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A Child Far from Home
- By: Lizzie Page
- Narrated by: Katy Sobey
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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With the country on the brink of war, single mother Jean embraces her ten-year-old daughter, Valerie, before she puts her on a train to Somerset alongside hundreds of other evacuees. Jean’s heart breaks as she vows they’ll be together again soon, knowing it’s a promise she might not be able to keep. Wrenched away from her mother and everything familiar, Valerie arrives in Somerset and nervously waits in the village hall to find a host family.
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The Two Loves of Sophie Strom
- By: Sam Taylor
- Narrated by: Beth Eyre, Jot Davies
- Length: 14 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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In one unforgettable night, Max Spiegelman's life splits in two. As war looms and Nazism continues to rise, Max is forced into choices that place him and his alter ego on opposing sides of a divided world. Tethered by their dreams, the boys watch helplessly, haunted by visions of what could have been. But in each parallel universe, they share a magnetic bond with an enchanting, grey-eyed girl.
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For the Children
- By: David Laws
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
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Helen Fairfax is a ferry pilot and the mother of Peter, aged six. From Monday to Friday, she flies from factories to airfields, then returns to the family farmhouse where her parents look after the boy. She feels torn being away from her son so much, but after her husband died in the Battle of Britain she vowed to live up to his example of courage and strike back at the enemy. Now the Germans are about to launch the V-2 against London, and MI6 is desperate to get its hands on an undamaged prototype of the rocket to discover how it might be defeated.
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The Girl from the Grand Hotel
- A Novel
- By: Camille Aubray
- Narrated by: Mozhan Navabi
- Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Summer 1939. The glittering Côte d’Azur is having a particularly brilliant season, as the world’s wealthiest vacationers collide with Hollywood’s illustrious movie stars for the first-ever film festival on the French Riviera. Into this hothouse playground comes an American named Annabel Faucon. Having left a dead-end job and a broken heart back in New York, she’s escaped to a summer stint at the fabulous Grand Hotel, where her uncle is the manager.
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Wartime Sweethearts
- The Sweet Sisters, Book 1
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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he Sweet family have run the local bakery for as long as anyone can remember. Twins Ruby and Mary Sweet help their widowed father out when they can. Mary loves baking and has no intention of leaving their small Gloucestershire village. while Ruby dreams of life in London. But as war threatens, there will be changes for all of the Sweet family, with brother Charlie off to serve and cousin Frances facing evacuation. But there will be opportunities, too, as the twins' baking talent catches the attention of the Ministry of Food.
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A Wartime Friend
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 11 hrs and 40 mins
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After escaping a train bound for a death camp with a trusty German Shepherd dog, a girl wakes to find that she has no memory of her former life. Lily is fostered by the kind RAF pilot who found her and his wife, Meg. It is not long before their lives are disrupted once again by the war and, with their home in ruins, they are forced to flee to the country. In the Somerset countryside, Lily is reunited with Rudy, the heroic German Shepherd.
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War Baby
- Sweet Sisters, Book 2
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
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The war has had a devastating effect on the Sweet family, with young Charlie Sweet, lost at sea, presumed dead and bombs falling on nearby Bristol. Still there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon in the form of Mary Sweet’s upcoming wedding to her Canadian beau. But even that has failed to rouse their father from his grief. But in London a baby has been found in a bombed out house, sheltered in the arms of his dead mother. A child to make life worth living again...
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War Orphans
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Penelope Freeman
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Joanna Ryan’s father has gone off to war, leaving her in the care of her step-mother, a woman more concerned with having a good time than being any sort of parent to her. But then she finds a puppy, left for dead, and Joanna becomes determined to save him, sharing her meagre rations with him. But, in a time of war, pets are only seen as an unnecessary burden and she is forced to hide her new friend, Harry, from her step-mother and the authorities. With bombs falling over Bristol and with the prospect of evacuation on the horizon, can they stay together and keep each other safe?
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Home Sweet Home
- The Sweet Sisters, Book 3
- By: Lizzie Lane
- Narrated by: Annie Aldington
- Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Frances Sweet can’t really remember her real parents. Brought up by her uncle, her cousins Ruby and Mary have always treated her like their little sister. As the war continues to keep her cousins separated from the men they love – Frances is growing up fast enough to catch the eye of dashing American soldier Declan. But she also has a greater longing – to find the mother who abandoned her years before.
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The Stars Are Our Witness
- A totally gripping, epic and emotional World War 2 novel
- By: Siobhan Curham
- Narrated by: Harrie Dobby
- Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Working in the camp’s munitions factory, Adela Rubenstein discovers the underground network fighting against the devastating cruelty all around them. Imprisoned for teaching Jewish orphans in secret for the resistance, she doesn’t hesitate to join the rebellion. Every night on the way back to her hut, she looks up at the stars, the only witness to their plan to blow up the crematoria buildings.
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Only the Brave
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Samuel Roukin
- Length: 7 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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In 1930s Berlin, dark days dawn under Hitler's Third Reich. For nineteen-year-old Sophia Alexander, life will never be the same. The daughter of a respected doctor, Sophia has always believed that her destiny is to look after others, and as the persecution of Jewish families begins, she joins a group of dissidents who are committed to helping them to safety.
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A Wedding for the Bomber Girls
- Bomber Command Girls, Book 2
- By: Vicki Beeby
- Narrated by: Sofia Engstrand
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
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At RAF Fenthorpe, instrument repairer Thea is helping her sister, Pearl, plan her wedding alongside fellow WAAF and maid of honour Jenny. A misfit amongst the women on the base, though, Thea is struggling to get others onboard. When Flight Sergeant Fitz makes a point of befriending and standing by her, sparks fly between the two. And when Fitz’s crew member, Jack, faces being stripped of his rank due to cowardice, Thea throws herself into seeking justice and support for him.