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In Their Own Words 2

Written by: The National Archives
Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble, Joan Walker
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Publisher's Summary

Letters, postcards, notes and telegraphs from the great and the good, the notorious and the downright wicked, shine a spotlight on a range of historical events and movements providing an immediate link to the immediate and much more distant past. 

This audiobook includes letters from: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mikhail Gorbachev, Lucien Freud, Barbara Hepworth, Nelson Mandela, Caitlin Thomas, Mary Whitehouse, Gandhi, George Washington among many others. 

Subjects covered include suffragette disturbances, obscene publications, relations between international leaders, child emigration including the Kindertransport. 

The audiobook features 55 letters, each with a 600-word essay, and a 3000 word introduction.

©2018 The National Archives (P)2018 Audible, Ltd

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