Audiobooks articles
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Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad by Daniel Finkelstein audiobook review – a gripping tale of endurance
Writer and peer Daniel Finkelstein narrates his family’s extraordinary story with a mixture of horror and wonderIn this remarkable family memoir, the political journalist and Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein documents the lives of his parents and grandparents under Hitler and Stalin, and “how the great forces of history crashed down in a terrible wave on two happy families; how it tossed them and turned them, and finally returned what was left to dry land”.His mother Mirjam’s family, who...
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The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin audiobook review – powerful essays from the civil rights frontline
Law & Order’s Jesse L Martin narrates two powerful essays examining the Black experience in the US, the first in a series marking the author’s centenary yearFirst published in 1963 at the height of the US civil rights movement, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time comprises two astonishing essays examining the Black experience in the United States and the struggle against racial injustice.The first, My Dungeon Shook, takes the form of a letter to Baldwin’s 14-year-old nephew, and outlines “the...