It is the dawn of World War II, and Neville Chamberlain believes he has bought "peace for our time" from Adolph Hitler, who has just seized Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. The English are alarmed by the huge German army, while the soldiers that would defend London don't even have steel helmets. For many, compromise and appeasement seem to be England's best defense.
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The setting is England, 1939, on the eve of war. Nick and his younger sister, Kate, live in a lighthouse on the smallest of the Channel Islands. Nick and Kate come to the aid of their father who is engaged in a desperate war of espionage with German U-boat wolf packs that are circling the islands. The information they provide to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the imminent Nazi invasion. One day Nick discovers an old sea chest, left for him by his ancestor,
Level 4 - Penguin Graded Readers Classic / British English Winston Smith lives in a society where the government controls people's lives every second of the day. Alone in his small, one-room apartment, Winston dreams of a better life. Is freedom from this life of suffering possible? There must be something that the Party cannot control something like love, perhaps?
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
Author: Sir Winston Churchill
Format / Quality: 46 separate MP3 files
Size: 771 MB
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples is
a four-volume history of the British stem of
the English-speaking people and the American branch,
written by Winston Churchill,
covering the period
from Caesar's invasions of Britain (55 BC)
to the beginning of the First World War (1914).
It started in 1937 and was finally published 1956–1958,
delayed several times due to war and his work on other texts.
