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Tennesse Williams - Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh written by John Lahr performed by Elizabeth Ashley on Audio CD (Unabridged)

Tennesse Williams - Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh written by John Lahr performed by Elizabeth Ashley on Audio CD (Unabridged)£39.99

The definitive biography of America's greatest playwright from the celebrated drama critic of The New Yorker. John Lahr has produced a theater biography like no other. Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family...

Under the Wire - The Wartime Memoir of a Spitfire Pilot written by William Ash with Brendan Foley performed by John Chancer on CD (Unabridged)

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Under the Wire - The Wartime Memoir of a Spitfire Pilot written by William Ash with Brendan Foley performed by John Chancer on CD (Unabridged)
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ISBN:  9780753125052
Genre - Main:  Non-Fiction
Genre - Specific:  Biography
Duration:  630 mins
Length:  Unabridged
Author:  William Ash with Brendan Foley
Narrator 1:  John Chancer
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Determined to take on the Nazis, Texan Bill Ash joined the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1939 and in so doing sacrificed his citizenship. Before long, he was sent to England where he flew Spitfires. Shot down over France in March 1942, he survived the crash-landing and, thanks to local civilians, evaded .......

capture for months only to be betrayed to the Gestapo in Paris. Tortured and sentenced to death as a spy, he was saved from the firing squad by the Luftwaffe who sent him to the infamous 'Great Escape' POW camp, Stalag Luft III. It was from there that Bill began his 'tour' of Occupied Europe.

Breaking out of a succession of camps, he became one of only a handful of serial escape artists to attempt more than a dozen break-outs - over the wire, under it in tunnels, through it with cutters or simply strolling out of the camp gates in disguise! They were years of extraordinary hardship, frustration and brutality - the penalty for escaping was a long spell in solitary - but throughout it all Bill Ash displayed not just remarkable courage but also an anarchic sense of humour, great humanity and an unstoppable desire for freedom.

Honest, funny and exciting, Under the Wire is both a riveting war memoir and a tribute to the bravery and resolve of an entire generation.

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