A Foreign Field [Audiobook] download free by Ben Macintyre
- Listen audiobook: A Foreign Field
- Author: Ben Macintyre
- Release date: 2010/8/11
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780007395262
- Rating: 9.1 of 10
- Votes: 690
- Review by: Amy Naquin
- Review rating: 8.78 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/19
- Duration: 3H59M25S in 256 kbps (64 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-09
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, Vorbis, WAV, AU, WMA, MPEG4, MP3 (compression GZ, CBC, RAR, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 320
- Includes a PDF summary of 29 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 23M17S (5.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of `Operation Mincemeat' and `Agent Zig-Zag'. Four young British soldiers find themselves trapped behind enemy lines at the height of the fighting on the Western Front in August 1914. Unable to get back to their units, they shelter in the tiny French village of Villeret, where they are fed, clothed and protected by the villagers, including the local matriarch Madame Dessenne, the baker and his wife. The self-styled leader of the band of fugitives, Private Robert Digby, falls in love with the 20-year-old-daughter of one of his protectors, and in November 1915 she gives birth to a baby girl. The child is just six months old when someone betrays the men to the Germans. They are captured, tried as spies and summarily condemned to death. Using the testimonies of the daughter, the villagers, detailed town hall records and, most movingly, the soldiers' last letters, Ben Macintyre reconstructs an extraordinary story of love, duplicity and shame - ultimately seeking to discover through decades of village rumour the answer to the question, `Who betrayed Private Digby and his men?' In this new updated edition the mystery is finally solved.
- Other categories, genre or collection: World War 1 Books, European History, True War & Combat Stories
- Download servers: 4Shared, Toorgle, FreakShare, Dropbox, FileFactory, Uploaded. Compressed in GZ, CBC, RAR, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 11.92 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x20mm
- Weight: 240g
- Printed by: HarperPress
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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