Taken from the archives of the Imperial War Museum, this is a collection of audiobooks that tell the real story of WWII in sound. Programme 1 covers September 1939 - June 1941 and includes the outbreak of war - Dunkirk - Battle of Britain - the Blitz - sinking of the Bismark - Battle of Crete - Hitler invades Russia. Programme 2 covers July 1941 - July 1943 and includes the Battle of the Atlantic - North Africa in Allied hands - American bombers first raids over Germany - invasion...
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man. A half-starved young Russian man in a...