Historical Survival Stories

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    • A Powerful Story of Love and Survival
    • By: Horace Greasley
    • Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 31-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 445 ratings
    • Horace 'Jim' Greasley was 20 years of age in the spring of 1939 when Adolf Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia and latterly Poland....

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    • My Own Story
    • By: John Smith
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Reese
    • Length: 2 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 27-10-08
    • Language: English
    • 2.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Captain John Smith led a company of English settlers to found the colony of Jamestown. Here is Smith's own account of his adventures there and his relationship with Pocahontas....

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    • Conkers
    • By: Tom Palmer, Tom Clohosy Cole - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Joe Eyre
    • Series: Conkers
    • Length: 2 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-24
    • Language: English
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    • Multi-award-winning author Tom Palmer returns with a thrilling naval adventure inspired by the incredible history of the Second World War Arctic convoys.

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    • By: Michael Morpurgo
    • Narrated by: Luke Treadaway
    • Series: War Horse, Book 1
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders from his back, Joey tells a powerful story of the truest friendships surviving in terrible times....

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    • Son of Gulliver
    • By: Michael Morpurgo
    • Narrated by: Akbar Kurtha
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 19-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • A stunning new story of hope, humanity and high-seas adventure for children and adults everywhere from Sir Michael Morpurgo, the nation’s favourite storyteller and multi-million copy best-selling author of War Horse....

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    • A Captivating Family Survival WW2 Novel Based on a True Story (Heroic Children of World War II)
    • By: Chanochi Zaks
    • Narrated by: David Myers
    • Series: Heroic Children of World War II
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 16-07-24
    • Language: English
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    • September, 1939. The six Zaks siblings watch in silent horror as the Wehrmacht marches into their quiet hometown in southern Poland. Concerned for their survival, Yisrael Zaks leads his wife Haiya and his brothers Volf and Avraham toward the Russian border.

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    • A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank
    • By: Eva Schloss
    • Narrated by: Anne Dover
    • Length: 10 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 31-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A story of heartbreak and survival by the stepsister of Anne Frank....

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    • A Holocaust Story of Survival, Triumph, and Love
    • By: Rebecca Frankel
    • Narrated by: Natalie Pela
    • Length: 11 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In the summer of 1942, the Rabinowitz family narrowly escaped the Nazi ghetto in their Polish town by fleeing to the forbidding Bialowieza Forest. They miraculously survived two years in the woods—through brutal winters, Typhus outbreaks, and merciless Nazi raids....

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    • A Jewish Boy's Story of Revolt and Survival in Nazi-Occupied Poland
    • By: Philip "Fiszel" Bialowitz, Joseph Bialowitz
    • Narrated by: Jim Tedder
    • Length: 8 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • A Promise at Sobibór is the story of Fiszel Bialowitz, a teenaged Polish Jew who escaped the Nazi gas chambers....

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    • The True Story of a Pioneer Woman
    • By: Mary Mann Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Barbara Benjamin Creel
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 12-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866-c.1936) was encouraged to record her experiences as a female pioneer. The result is the only known firsthand account....

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    • By: Linda Sue Park
    • Narrated by: David Baker, Cynthia Bishop
    • Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • In 1985 southern Sudan is ravaged by war. Rebels and government forces battle for control, with ordinary people…people like the boy, Salva Dut…caught in the middle....

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    • A Family's Story of Courage and Survival on Both Sides of the Berlin Wall
    • By: Nina Willner
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-10-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family....

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    • Titanic, Book 1
    • By: Gordon Korman
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Series: Titanic, Book 1
    • Length: 3 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-11
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there’s plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers....

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