🎧 Security and Freedom in Britain at the Start of World War II with Henry Hemming
20th Century • 19m
Henry Hemming is a historian and author of five works of non-fiction including In Search of the English Eccentric, Misadventure in the Middle East, shortlisted for the Dolman Travel Book Award, and Churchill’s Iceman, published in the US as The Ingenious Mr Pyke, which became a New York Times bestseller.
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