TY  - SOUND
AU  - The National Archives,null
AU  - Bathurst,Robert
AU  - Mays,Daniel
AU  - Margolyes,Miriam
AU  - Smith,Arthur
AU  - Haig,David
AU  - Varma,Indira
TI  - In their own words: letters from history
SN  - 9781489383563
PY  - 2016///
CY  - [Melbourne, Vic.]
PB  - Bolinda/Audible audio
KW  - Letters
KW  - Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Audiobooks
KW  - National Archives (Great Britain)
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - Archival resources
N1  - Downloadable eAudiobook; Non fiction; Duration: 07:23:17; Read by Robert Bathurst; Read by Daniel Mays; Read by Miriam Margolyes; Read by Arthur Smith; Read by David Haig; Read by Indira Varma; Adult
N2  - The collection includes letters from Karl Marx, requesting UK citizenship; an anonymous writer purporting to be Jack the Ripper; Josef Kramer, the commandant of Bergen Belsen; Winston Churchill to President Roosevelt, requesting US support against Hitler; Clement Atlee to Harry S Truman following Hiroshima; the spies Burgess and Maclean; as well as the 'real Charlotte Gray' spy, Christine Granville, amongst others. Topics covered include the Monteagle letter that warned about the Gunpowder plot, letters from the Wright brothers trying to get the War Office to fund their aeronautical research, a dispatch on the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Christine Keeler's Russian-British love triangle that begat the Profumo affair, US disapproval of British trade with Cuba, a letter reporting on the first day of the trial of Nelson Mandela and the anonymous letter that framed the Krays
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