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Bolts from the Blue
- From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff
- By: Richard Johns
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the RAF College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft....
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Men of 18 in 1918
- Memories of the Western Front in World War One
- By: Frederick James Hodges
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Perfect for fans of Peter Hart, Max Hastings, and Barbara W. Tuchman, this is the astounding account of one young infantryman's personal experience of the Western Front in the last year of World War One....
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The Eastern Front 1914-1917
- By: Norman Stone
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
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A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West....
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The Desert Column
- By: Ion Idriess
- Narrated by: John Derum
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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One of the most popular accounts by an Australian veteran of WWI - written entirely from the private soldier's point of view....
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It feels very real 
- By Anonymous User on 15-12-2023
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Fighting the Flying Circus
- By: Eddie V. Rickenbacker
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker was best known as one of the commanders of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, a crack unit of pilots....
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In Their Own Words
- Untold Stories of the First World War
- By: Anthony Richards
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman, Katy Sobey, Piers Hampton
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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This gripping, revealing and poignant collection of stories tells the First World War from the perspective of those who were there, using letters, diaries and memoirs from Imperial War Museum's unparalleled archives....
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Bolts from the Blue
- From Cold War Warrior to Chief of the Air Staff
- By: Richard Johns
- Narrated by: Roger Davis
- Length: 17 hrs and 2 mins
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Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Johns was commissioned at the RAF College Cranwell in 1959 after completing flying training on Piston Provost and Meteor aircraft....
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Men of 18 in 1918
- Memories of the Western Front in World War One
- By: Frederick James Hodges
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
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Perfect for fans of Peter Hart, Max Hastings, and Barbara W. Tuchman, this is the astounding account of one young infantryman's personal experience of the Western Front in the last year of World War One....
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The Eastern Front 1914-1917
- By: Norman Stone
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 15 hrs and 6 mins
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A groundbreaking historical study, Norman Stone's The Eastern Front 1914-1917 was the very first authoritative account of the Russian Front in the First World War to be published in the West....
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The Desert Column
- By: Ion Idriess
- Narrated by: John Derum
- Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
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One of the most popular accounts by an Australian veteran of WWI - written entirely from the private soldier's point of view....
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It feels very real 
- By Anonymous User on 15-12-2023
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Fighting the Flying Circus
- By: Eddie V. Rickenbacker
- Narrated by: John Pruden
- Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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Captain Eddie V. Rickenbacker was best known as one of the commanders of the 94th "Hat-in-the-Ring" Squadron, a crack unit of pilots....
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In Their Own Words
- Untold Stories of the First World War
- By: Anthony Richards
- Narrated by: Elliot Chapman, Katy Sobey, Piers Hampton
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
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This gripping, revealing and poignant collection of stories tells the First World War from the perspective of those who were there, using letters, diaries and memoirs from Imperial War Museum's unparalleled archives....
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Forgotten Voices of the Great War
- By: Max Arthur
- Narrated by: Richard Bebb
- Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
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In 1960, the Imperial War Museum began a momentous task....
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Wow!!!
- By gideon.matthews on 21-10-2016
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All Blood Runs Red
- The Legendary Life of Eugene Bullard-Boxer, Pilot, Soldier, Spy
- By: Phil Keith, Tom Clavin
- Narrated by: James Shippy
- Length: 8 hrs and 54 mins
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The incredible story of the first African-American military pilot, who went on to become a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer....
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Lawrence of Arabia on War
- The Campaign in the Desert 1916-18
- By: Robert Johnson
- Narrated by: Robert Johnson
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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While Lawrence of Arabia himself has been the subject of many biographies and an award-winning film, the context of his war in the desert, and his ideas on war itself, are less well-known....
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To Hell and Back
- By: Susanna De Vries
- Narrated by: Shane Nagle
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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As a young soldier in the battlefields of Gallipolia, Sydney Loch witnessed the horror of war first-hand. On his return to Australia he detailed what he saw in his book The Straits Impregnable....
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Engaging Account of an Artillery Runner
- By Richard on 31-01-2015
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Beverly Hills Spy
- The Double-Agent War Hero Who Helped Japan Attack Pearl Harbor
- By: Ronald Drabkin
- Narrated by: Sam Dewhurst-Phillips
- Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
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Ronald Drabkin tells the truly unbelievable and untold story of Frederick Rutland—a debonair British WWI hero, flying ace, fixture of Los Angeles society, and friend of Golden Age Hollywood stars—who flipped to become a spy for Japan in the lead-up to the attack on Pearl Harbor....
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And We Go On
- A Memoir of the Great War
- By: Will R. Bird
- Narrated by: Nick Allan
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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And We Go On is a nuanced response to the trauma of war, suffused with an interest in the spiritual and the paranormal not found in other war literature. Long out of print, it is a true lost classic that arguably influenced numerous works in the Canadian literary canon....
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Churchill's Confidant
- Enemy to Lifelong Friend
- By: Richard Steyn
- Narrated by: Peter Noble
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Brought together first as enemies in the Anglo-Boer War and later as allies in the First World War, the remarkable and often touching friendship between Winston Churchill and Jan Smuts is a rich study in contrasts....
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The Red Baron
- The Life and Legacy of Manfred von Richthofen
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Jem Matzan
- Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
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Few participants in World War I are more famous than Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen, better known as the Red Baron....
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The York Patrol
- The Real Story of Alvin York and the Unsung Heroes Who Made Him World War I's Most Famous Soldier
- By: James Carl Nelson
- Narrated by: Jacques Roy
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
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A riveting history of Alvin York, the World War I legend who killed two dozen Germans and captured more than 100, detailing York's heroics yet also restoring the unsung heroes of his patrol to their rightful place in history - from renowned World War I historian James Carl Nelson....
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My Boy Jack?
- The Search for Kipling's Only Son
- By: Tonie Holt, Valmai Holt
- Narrated by: Bruce Cullen
- Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
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My Boy Jack is the extraordinary story of Kipling's search for his son. John Kipling was reported missing in the Battle of Loos on the Western Front in 1915....
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World War I
- One Hour History Books, Book 1
- By: History by the Hour
- Narrated by: Rory Young
- Length: 1 hr and 36 mins
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In this one-hour history book, discover the main events that led to World War I and how this first global conflict unfold from the Western front, to Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as it became one of the bloodiest war of all time....
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Vera Brittain and the First World War
- The Story of Testament of Youth
- By: Mark Bostridge
- Narrated by: Jilly Bond
- Length: 5 hrs and 52 mins
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In the midst of her studies at Oxford, when war broke out across Europe, Vera Brittain left university in 1915 to become a VAD (voluntary aid detachment) nurse....
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Britain's Last Tommies
- Final Memories from Soldiers of the 1914–18 War in Their Own Words
- By: Richard van Emden
- Narrated by: Bruce Cullen
- Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
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On the centenary of the Great War, there are now no longer any veterans alive of the six million men who served on the Western Front. Although this means that the Great War as a living history is to all intents and purposes over....
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Brothers in War
- By: Michael Walsh
- Narrated by: Peter Wickham
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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The Beecheys were a close-knit family, eight brothers and five sisters under the loving eye of their widowed mother, Amy....
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Forever England
- The Life of Rupert Brooke
- By: Mike Read
- Narrated by: Mike Read
- Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
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Forever England explores Rupert Brooke’s life, from schooldays to the Great War, and in so doing builds a remarkable picture of a long-lost England and a generation’s descent into war. Brooke’s poems emerge dramatically from a tangled web of love, friendship....
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Fine but too long: The narrator forces his reading
- By Joseph Azize on 31-08-2020
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Arthur: The Great War Memoirs of William Arthur Human
- By: Stephen Reynolds
- Narrated by: Geoff Cummings
- Length: 3 hrs and 59 mins
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William Arthur Human was 22 years old and serving as a British soldier in India when war broke out in 1914. This is his story, in his own words, covering his first eight months on the Western Front and featuring the Battle of Neuve Chapelle....
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The U.S. Army Combat Historian and Combat History Operations
- World War I to the Vietnam War
- By: Kathryn Roe Coker, Jason Wetzel
- Narrated by: Mack Sanderson
- Length: 6 hrs and 9 mins
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How the US Army developed historical programs since World War I―sending combat historians into the fray to interview soldiers and collect documents for the benefit of history....
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Minds at War
- How Great Artists and Their Work Were Shaped by the First World War
- By: Fintan O'Toole, Ruth Padel, Heather Jones, and others
- Narrated by: full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 35 mins
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The complete BBC Radio 3 series explores how great creative minds responded to the First World War in individual works of art and scholarship....