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Red on Red

Liverpool, Manchester United and the fiercest rivalry in world football

by Phil McNulty, Jim White ...

Narrated by Luke Francis ...

Unabridged

9 hours 46 min

The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football‘A must read.’ Henry Winter'Superb.' Daniel TaylorLiverpool and Manchester. Two gloriously independent-minded, eclectic, culturally vibrant places. Yet the inhabitants dislike each other with a passion that is visceral. It is a divide that spans generations, across class, gender and ethnicity. And it has grown over the years, largely ... Read more

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The untold story of the most contested fixture in world football‘A must read.’ Henry Winter'Superb.' Daniel TaylorLiverpool and Manchester. Two gloriously independent-minded, eclectic, culturally vibrant places. Yet the inhabitants dislike each other with a passion that is visceral. It is a divide that spans generations, across class, gender and ethnicity. And it has grown over the years, largely
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The Spy in the Archive

How one man tried to kill the KGB

by Gordon Corera ...

Narrated by Gordon Corera ...

Unabridged

8 hours 43 min

LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily ... Read more

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LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera. About how one man – Vasili Mitrokhin – turned first disaffected dissident and then traitor to the KGB, stealing the most secret Soviet archives and smuggling them to the West.How do you steal a library? Not just any library but the most secret, heavily
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Agatha Christie

The Sunday Times bestselling biography of the legendary creator of Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple

by Lucy Worsley ...

Narrated by Lucy Worsley ...

Unabridged

13 hours 47 min

The bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley OBE'Every Christie fan should read this' - THE TIMESTo Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie was 'thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. Born in 1890, Christie ... Read more

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The bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley OBE'Every Christie fan should read this' - THE TIMESTo Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie was 'thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by the new science of psychology, which helped her through devastating mental illness. Born in 1890, Christie
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Redwood

The Untold Story of the Cold War's Most Extraordinary Spy

by Ben Macintyre ...

Narrated by Ben Macintyre ...

Unabridged

17 hours 24 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: a “page-turning masterpiece” (The Guardian) about a Russian double agent with a desperate secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse.“Ben Macintyre has a rare ability to turn history and espionage upside down and give us true, colorful stories that astound us as they draw ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Spy and the Traitor comes the ultimate true-life Cold War thriller: a “page-turning masterpiece” (The Guardian) about a Russian double agent with a desperate secret—and the key to stopping a nuclear apocalypse.“Ben Macintyre has a rare ability to turn history and espionage upside down and give us true, colorful stories that astound us as they draw
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

by James D. Hornfischer ...

Narrated by Barrett Whitener ...

Unabridged

16 hours 35 min

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The exhilarating true story of the U.S. Navy’s improbable victory at the Battle of Samar—“a dire survival-at-sea saga” (Denver Post) from the acclaimed author of Neptune’s Inferno“A critically acclaimed, blow-by-blow look at a small American force counterattacking into the teeth of hopeless odds.”—Miami Herald“The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors will take its... ... Read more

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The exhilarating true story of the U.S. Navy’s improbable victory at the Battle of Samar—“a dire survival-at-sea saga” (Denver Post) from the acclaimed author of Neptune’s Inferno“A critically acclaimed, blow-by-blow look at a small American force counterattacking into the teeth of hopeless odds.”—Miami Herald“The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors will take its...
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In True Face

A Woman's Life in the CIA, Unmasked

by Jonna Mendez ...

Narrated by Barbara Benjamin-Creel ...

Unabridged

8 hours 41 min

The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their ... Read more

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The bestselling coauthor of The Moscow Rules and Argo tells her riveting, courageous story of being a female spy at the height of the Cold WarJonna Hiestand Mendez began her CIA career as a “contract wife” performing secretarial duties for the CIA as a convenience to her husband, a young officer stationed in Europe. She needed his permission to open a bank account or shut off the gas to their
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The Wake

The Deadly Legacy of a Newfoundland Tsunami

by Linden MacIntrye ...

Narrated by Linden MacIntyre ...

Unabridged

10 hours 50 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER“Fascinating, infuriating, eloquent and cautionary.” **—**PostmediaA Globe and Mail, CBC Books and Maclean’s Book of the YearIn the vein of Erik Larson’s Isaac’s Storm and Dead Wake comes an incredible true story of destruction and survival in Newfoundland by one of Canada’s best-known writersOn November 18, 1929, a tsunami struck Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula. Giant waves up
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On Tyranny

Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

by Timothy Snyder ...

Narrated by Timothy Snyder ...

Unabridged

1 hour 47 min

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has writ... ... Read more

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “bracing” (Vox) guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from “a rising public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present” (The New York Times)“Timothy Snyder reasons with unparalleled clarity, throwing the past and future into sharp relief. He has writ...
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The Radium Girls

The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women

by Kate Moore ...

Narrated by Angela Brazil ...

Unabridged

15 hours 52 min

As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and ... Read more

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As a war raged across the world, young American women flocked to work, painting watches, clocks and military dials with a special luminous substance made from radium. It was a fun job, lucrative and glamorous—the girls themselves shone brightly in the dark, covered head to toe in the dust from the paint. They were the radium girls.As the years passed, the women began to suffer from mysterious and
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Churchill

Walking with Destiny

by Andrew Roberts ...

Narrated by Stephen Thorne ...

Unabridged

50 hours 28 min

Brought to you by Penguin.Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous ... Read more

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Brought to you by Penguin.Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in 20th-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many thought him to be the greatest man in the world.There have been over a thousand previous biographies of Churchill. Andrew Roberts now draws on over 40 new sources, including the private diaries of King George VI, used in no previous
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How Fascism Works

The Politics of Us and Them

by Jason Stanley ...

Narrated by MacLeod Andrews ...

Unabridged

5 hours 44 min

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writerA Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their ... Read more

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**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “No single book is as relevant to the present moment.”—Claudia Rankine, author of Citizen“With unsettling insight and disturbing clarity, How Fascism Works is an essential guidebook to our current national dilemma of democracy vs. authoritarianism.”—Jelani Cobb, New Yorker staff writerA Yale philosopher identifies the ten pillars of fascist politics, and charts their
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The Looming Tower

Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11

by Lawrence Wright ...

Narrated by Lawrence Wright ...

Unabridged

16 hours 50 min

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center.**One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st ... Read more

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A “heart-stopping account of the events leading up to 9/11” (The New York Times Book Review), this definitive history explains in gripping detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center.**One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st
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The Secret War

Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

by Max Hastings ...

Narrated by Steven Crossley ...

Unabridged

30 hours 39 min

‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on SundayIn ‘The Secret War’, Max Hastings examines the espionage and ... Read more

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‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on SundayIn ‘The Secret War’, Max Hastings examines the espionage and
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Catastrophe

Europe Goes to War 1914

by Max Hastings ...

Narrated by Max Hastings, Nigel Carrington ...

Unabridged

28 hours 58 min

The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral ... Read more

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The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral
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The Tobacco Girls

The start of a wonderful historical saga series from Lizzie Lane

by Lizzie Lane ...

Narrated by Anne Dover ...

Series Audiobook 1 - The Tobacco Girls
Unabridged

9 hours 36 min

The start of a thrilling new series, from bestselling author Lizzie Lane set in Bristol which follows three bestfriends through thick and thin.Bristol 1939.School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father, a small-time crook, has an ulterior motive for insisting she gets a job at the W.D.H.O. Wills tobacco factory but keeps it to herself.She's befriended by effervescent Phyllis Mason and kind ... Read more

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The start of a thrilling new series, from bestselling author Lizzie Lane set in Bristol which follows three bestfriends through thick and thin.Bristol 1939.School leaver Maisie Miles suspects her father, a small-time crook, has an ulterior motive for insisting she gets a job at the W.D.H.O. Wills tobacco factory but keeps it to herself.She's befriended by effervescent Phyllis Mason and kind
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The Vanquished

Why the First World War Failed to End

by Robert Gerwarth ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

10 hours 49 min

In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and ... Read more

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In The Vanquished, a highly original and gripping work of history, Robert Gerwarth asks us to think again about the true legacy of the First World War. In large part it was not the fighting on the Western Front that proved so ruinous to Europe's future, but the devastating aftermath, as countries on both sides of the original conflict were savaged by revolutions, pogroms, mass expulsions, and
... Read more
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The Prize

The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin ...

Narrated by Michael David Axtell ...

Unabridged

46 hours 11 min

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important ... Read more

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and hailed as “the best history of oil ever written” by Business Week, Daniel Yergin’s “spellbinding…irresistible” (The New York Times) account of the global pursuit of oil, money, and power addresses the ongoing energy crisis.Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important
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Operation Gladio

The Unholy Alliance Between the Vatican, the CIA, and the Mafia

by Paul L. Williams ...

Narrated by Michael Prichard ...

Unabridged

11 hours 57 min

In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and U.S. mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence, in many European countries, of "stay-behind" units consisting of five thousand to fifteen thousand military ... Read more

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In this disturbing exposé, journalist Paul L. Williams describes a secret alliance forged at the close of World War II by the CIA, the Sicilian and U.S. mafias, and the Vatican to thwart the possibility of a Communist invasion of Europe. Williams presents evidence suggesting the existence, in many European countries, of "stay-behind" units consisting of five thousand to fifteen thousand military
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To Kill a Nation

The Attack on Yugoslavia

by Michael Parenti ...

Narrated by Rich Miller ...

Unabridged

5 hours 51 min

Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy. ... Read more

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Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material and observations gathered from his visit to Yugoslavia in 1999, Michael Parenti challenges mainstream media coverage of the war, uncovering hidden agendas behind the Western talk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and democracy.
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D-Day

The Battle for Normandy

by Antony Beevor ...

Narrated by Cameron Stewart ...

Unabridged

19 hours 42 min

**"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."—TimeBeevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books**Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more than twenty years ... Read more

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**"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."—TimeBeevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books**Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more than twenty years
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Finding Jackie

A Life Reinvented

by Oline Eaton ...

Narrated by Jo Anna Perrin ...

Unabridged

11 hours 4 min

Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, ideal American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first of the modern First Ladies. Then her husband was murdered, changing her world and ours.Traumatized and exposed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an America similarly haunted by upheaval. She dated and ... Read more

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Jackie. One name was all you needed. A paragon of femininity, fashion, ideal American wifeliness and motherhood, she was also fiercely independent, the first of the modern First Ladies. Then her husband was murdered, changing her world and ours.Traumatized and exposed, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy nonetheless built a new life for herself in an America similarly haunted by upheaval. She dated and
... Read more
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The Allies

Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and the Unlikely Alliance That Won World War II

by Winston Groom ...

Narrated by George Guidall ...

Unabridged

15 hours 47 min

Best-selling author Winston Groom, “one of America’s great storytellers” (The Wall Street Journal), crafts a gripping narrative about the tense alliance between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, who aligned as leaders of the Allied forces to win World War II and redefine the international political stage.Explore the tensions of an uneasy alliance between three of the ... Read more

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Best-selling author Winston Groom, “one of America’s great storytellers” (The Wall Street Journal), crafts a gripping narrative about the tense alliance between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin, who aligned as leaders of the Allied forces to win World War II and redefine the international political stage.Explore the tensions of an uneasy alliance between three of the
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The Cold War

A World History

by Odd Arne Westad ...

Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

Unabridged

22 hours 44 min

In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues that the conflict must be understood as a global ... Read more

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In The Cold War, Odd Arne Westad offers a new perspective on a century when a superpower rivalry and an ideological war transformed every corner of our globe. We traditionally think of the Cold War as a post-World War II diplomatic and military conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union. But in this major new work, Westad argues that the conflict must be understood as a global
... Read more
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Winston Churchill's Greatest Speeches

A BBC Collection

by Winston Churchill ...

Narrated by Winston Churchill ...

Unabridged

5 hours 1 min

'The most persuasive and patriotic exhortations to arms since the Agincourt address from Henry V.' - The Guardian.Sir Winston Churchill steered Britain through its darkest hours during World War II. He was one of the 20th century's greatest orators and the speeches that he painstakingly composed, rehearsed and delivered inspired courage in an entire nation. Churchill's output was prolific - his ... Read more

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'The most persuasive and patriotic exhortations to arms since the Agincourt address from Henry V.' - The Guardian.Sir Winston Churchill steered Britain through its darkest hours during World War II. He was one of the 20th century's greatest orators and the speeches that he painstakingly composed, rehearsed and delivered inspired courage in an entire nation. Churchill's output was prolific - his
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