Author: Max Arthur
Narrator: Clive Mantle, Max Arthur, Paul McGann
Abridged: 3 hr 29 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 04/05/2007
LAST POST is very consciously the last word from the handful of First World War survivors who were left alive in 2004. Now they have passed away, our final human connection with the First World War has been broken.Max Arthur, a skilled interviewer, took the very last chance we had to ask questions of those who were there. Read by Max Arthur, Paul McGann and Clive Mantle(p) 2007 Orion Publishing Group
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