
War Pigeons 1: WP & Me
A Boy and His War Pigeon in WW1
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Written in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, WP & Me is a story relevant to our times in the COVID era and beyond. It follows a London family as they go through the ravages of war upon them. Standing in huge shopping queues outside stores, dealing with rationing, changes in the schoolyard or the workplace, travel restrictions, and an unruly media often confusing the population - all this they must cope with, not to mention the sense of fear everywhere. But instead of being asked to stay behind closed doors, families saw their men sent to fight.
Tommy and "Pigeon", two teenage brothers, begin their war trying to sign up for "the Pal's Army". Caught up in the general excitement that saw the coming war as "the big adventure", they want to fight for England on The Western Front. Everyone at first thought the war would be over by Christmas.
The older brother Tommy gets through to become one of 250,000 child soldiers who joined the British Army during World War I.
Pigeon is turned away by the army. London becomes a very different place to the home he knew. Marching soldiers fill the streets, to later be replaced bomb craters as German "Taube" fill the sky. More and more men volunteer for the forces - until in the end those who did not volunteer are sent to fight against their will.
One day Pigeon finds a wounded pigeon and takes to home. Once it is strong enough to fly he sadly sets it free, but it does not fly away. WP stays around his home. Over time Pigeon begins to raise a whole flock of pigeons as pets - but this is against war regulations. Will he be arrested as a spy?
Pigeon finds himself traveling across submarine endangered waters to France, serving as another underage soldier. Can his carrier pigeons make a difference to the outcome of the war? Will Pigeon ever find his older brother Tommy, who has gone Missing In Action?
Only by living through the reality of war, has Pigeon been able to fully appreciate peace.
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- De: Joseph Bruchac
- Narrado por: Derrick Henry
- Duración: 5 h y 55 m
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Although the mission school bans all that is Navajo, Ned secretly clings to his native language and culture. Proudly joining the U.S. Marines in 1943, he becomes a top-secret Navajo Code Talker. During bloody battles for Japanese islands, Ned and his brave band of code-talking brothers save thousands of lives using Navajo encryption the enemy never cracks.
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Terrible audio
- De Amazon Customer en 02-13-18
De: Joseph Bruchac
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An Elephant in the Garden
- De: Michael Morpurgo
- Narrado por: Fiona Clarke
- Duración: 4 h y 18 m
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It’s 1944. Elizabeth's father is fighting with the German army on the eastern front. Her mother works at Dresden zoo, where her favourite animal is a young elephant named Marlene. When the zoo director tells her the dangerous animals must be shot to prevent them running amok when the town is bombed, Elizabeth's mother moves Marlene into the back garden to save her… and then the bombs start to fall.
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Amazing story!!
- De MPofahl en 03-26-19
De: Michael Morpurgo
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The Note Through the Wire
- The Incredible True Story of a Prisoner of War and a Resistance Heroine
- De: Doug Gold
- Narrado por: Conrad Coleby
- Duración: 9 h y 2 m
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In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever.
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Beautifully told
- De E. Stasny en 02-28-25
De: Doug Gold
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Swansong 1945
- A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
- De: Walter Kempowski, Shaun Whiteside - translator
- Narrado por: Eric G. Dove, Christine Williams
- Duración: 17 h y 55 m
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Swansong 1945 chronicles the end of Nazi Germany and World War II in Europe through hundreds of letters, diaries, and autobiographical accounts covering four days that fateful spring: Hitler's birthday on April 20, American and Soviet troops meeting at the Elbe on April 25, Hitler's suicide on April 30, and finally the German surrender on May 8.
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Important, Tragic, Poignant...
- De Amazon Customer en 07-31-15
De: Walter Kempowski, y otros
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Summer
- De: Ali Smith
- Narrado por: Juliette Burton
- Duración: 9 h y 27 m
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Here is the exciting culmination of Ali Smith's celebrated Seasonal Quartet, a series of stand-alone novels, separate but interconnected (as the seasons are), wide-ranging in timescale and light-footed through histories.
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terrific book, beautifully read.
- De Sasha en 02-07-21
De: Ali Smith
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The Pearl Thief
- De: Elizabeth Wein
- Narrado por: Maggie Service
- Duración: 7 h y 55 m
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From the internationally acclaimed best-selling author of Code Name Verity comes a stunning new story of pearls, love and murder. Sixteen-year-old Julie Beaufort-Stuart is returning to her family's ancestral home in Perthshire for one last summer. It is not an idyllic return to childhood. Her grandfather's death has forced the sale of the house and estate, and this will be a summer of good-byes. Not least to the McEwen family - Highland travellers who have been part of the landscape for as long as anyone can remember.
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Freshwater Pearls and Scottish Plaid
- De Cynthia en 08-14-17
De: Elizabeth Wein
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The Last of the Doughboys
- The Forgotten Generation and Their Forgotten World War
- De: Richard Rubin
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 20 h y 8 m
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They were the final survivors of the millions who made up the American Expeditionary Forces, nineteenth-century men and women living in the twenty-first century. Self-reliant, humble, and stoic, they kept their stories to themselves for a lifetime, then shared them at the last possible moment so that they, and the war they won - the trauma that created our modern world - might at last be remembered. You will never forget them.
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Flawed But Worthwhile: History Buffs Should Get It
- De Jim en 01-12-14
De: Richard Rubin
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In Pharaoh's Army
- Memories of the Lost War
- De: Tobias Wolff
- Narrado por: Michael Kramer
- Duración: 5 h y 32 m
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Whether he is evoking the blind carnage of the Tet offensive, the theatrics of his fellow Americans, or the unraveling of his own illusions, Wolff brings to this work the same uncanny eye for detail, pitiless candor, and mordant wit that made This Boy's Life a modern classic.
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Boring Waste of Time
- De Ethan en 08-21-22
De: Tobias Wolff
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Enemy Brothers (Living History Library)
- De: Constance Savery
- Narrado por: Paul L. Coffey
- Duración: 7 h y 56 m
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British airman Dym Ingleford is convinced that the young German prisoner, Max Eckermann, is his brother Anthony, who was kidnapped years before. Raised in the Nazi ideology, Tony has by chance tumbled into British hands. Dym has brought him back, at least temporarily, to the family he neither remembers nor will acknowledge as his own.
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More people should read this wonderful story!!!
- De E.F.B. en 08-02-18
De: Constance Savery
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Slaughterhouse-Five
- De: Kurt Vonnegut
- Narrado por: James Franco
- Duración: 5 h y 13 m
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Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).
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Don't Quit Your Daytime Job, James
- De Keith en 11-20-15
De: Kurt Vonnegut
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How Do You Live
- De: Genzaburo Yoshino, Bruno Navasky, Neil Gaiman
- Narrado por: Brian Nishii
- Duración: 6 h y 13 m
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How Do You Live? is narrated in two voices. The first belongs to Copper, 15, who after the death of his father must confront inevitable and enormous change, including his own betrayal of his best friend.
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pure joy
- De greta shlafmitz en 01-09-22
De: Genzaburo Yoshino, y otros
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Spare
- De: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Narrado por: Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex
- Duración: 15 h y 39 m
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It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother’s coffin as the world watched in sorrow—and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling—and how their lives would play out from that point on.
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Gutterball!
- De Jimmyjoejangles en 01-10-23
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I Escaped from Auschwitz
- The Shocking True Story of the World War II Hero Who Escaped the Nazis and Helped Save Over 200,000 Jews
- De: Rudolf Vrba, Alan Bestic, Sir Martin Gilbert - foreword, y otros
- Narrado por: Steven Jay Cohen
- Duración: 17 h y 10 m
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April 7, 1944 - This date marks the successful escape of two Slovak prisoners from one of the most heavily-guarded and notorious concentration camps of Nazi Germany. The escapees, Rudolf Vrba and Alfred Wetzler, fled over 100 miles to be the first to give the graphic and detailed descriptions of the atrocities of Auschwitz. Originally published in the early 1960s, I Escaped from Auschwitz is the striking autobiography of none other than Rudolf Vrba himself. Vrba details his life leading up to, during, and after his escape from his 21-month internment in Auschwitz.
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Best story from the Holocaust I’ve ever read!
- De Chuck812 en 01-10-21
De: Rudolf Vrba, y otros
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre War Pigeons 1: WP & Me
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- Michael Beverly
- 03-18-21
Striking, Apt, Fluid Storytelling
My young teenagers even listened through this audiobook with me. It is never easy getting them to focus but this audiobook was a popular choice. As a parent I like the positive morals in the storyline too. This is a sad story because its about World War 1, but one we nevertheless took a lot of positivity away from.
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- Carlton Watkins
- 03-21-21
LEST WE FORGET
A great and vivid story reminding us of the real values in life, and a call both for appreciation what those in the world war one went thru but also peace.
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- Lora Nelson
- 03-16-21
Pigeon Perfect!!!
I love animal based stories and was amazed by some of the cool stuff this story taught me about pigeons, like how they are reared and trained to home as pets, but also the amazing way their fathers teach them to fly, and how they carry a mysterious gift in navigation to always help them find where they are taking messages to. We could learn a lot about how to run our own communities, if we gave everyone an equal shift as leader, like pigeons do in their flocks. An extraordinary story, and I really felt part of family life in this story too.
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- Christine Suarez
- 03-14-21
Masterful Storytelling!!
The combination of a great author and narrator brought this family story of life during World War 1 to life. A useful study aid to anyone learning about The Great War, this is packed with facts without seeming at all studious. Masterful storytelling.
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- Brad S Moore
- 04-03-21
An honourable book.
This story touches the heart and teaches a lot of history about family life during the war.
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- Kathy Medina
- 03-15-21
Poignant!
This is a well written and researched story which helps readers/listeners better understand World War 1. The writing style and narration are both good quality productions.
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- Christopher A Burbage
- 03-29-21
Good history lesson.
This story will be a good history lesson for anyone interested in studying how domestic life changed for families in London during the First World War
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- DabOfDarkness
- 12-31-21
Pigeons! In WWI - fascinating!
I haven’t read a lot of WWI novels and never one that talked about the homing pigeons to this extent. Told in the voice of a teen boy, everything is presented in a simple, straight-forward manner. It made the book very accessible.
Pigeon has some messed up teeth and they kind of give him a little beak because his front teeth stick out funny. Even though the name was given to him as a joke, he swiftly adopted it and from there grew his love of real pigeons. He comes from a progressive family – his dad is a peace-loving vegetarian and his mom is an active member in the Suffragettes. As war breaks out, harsh slang against Germans swiftly become popular, but not in Pigeon’s house. They talk to their kids about how not all Germans are evil, like the kind bakery owners where they get their muffins. In some ways, this did make the atmosphere of the book a little too modern PC. I’m sure there were some people who were farther ahead on the enlightenment rainbow in London during WWI, but I often find that everyone has some foible. I was hard-pressed to find such foibles with Pigeon’s family, so that made certain interactions a little unbelievable.
This story really features the boys – Tommy and Pigeon. Both are underage for the military but both are tall for their age and the military is usually willing to turn a blind eye to the age requirement as long as the kids lie convincingly. Tommy makes it in and Pigeon doesn’t, because of his teeth. Seriously! I found that very interesting that they were concerned he would have serious problems with his teeth in the field, so no go for him. I learned many such interesting things from this story.
Since the boys didn’t want their parents to know they were trying to get into the military, they found a signup well from home and used fake names. Alas, this made it difficult to find their brother later. For me, this added suspense even tho I thought it was a little far-fetched. After all, Tommy is sending letters home. Wouldn’t he have signed his full assumed name at some point? Or wouldn’t it be on a return address?
I did love how the boys’ attitude about the war changes over time. It goes from a big party, something exciting and brave and daring to boring, miserable, and daunting. The government was doing their part to drum up support for the war, making it sound wonderful and like victory was just around the corner. So I can’t blame the impressionable young lads too much for their initial enthusiasm. The story also shows how Pigeon’s mom and other women are drawn into the war effort too, like working at the munitions plant.
There’s also this part about white flowers and cads. I hadn’t heard of this before either, but often women (who weren’t allowed to serve in the military) would present eligible males with white flowers and taunt them for being cowardly cads for not volunteering. Very interesting stuff.
Anyhoo, back to the war pigeons. Food is so scarce, people can be fined for feeding the birds. But Pigeon takes up raising pigeons anyways as a secret hobby. Eventually tho, there’s a great need for homing pigeons and pigeon keepers in the war effort. Pigeon is still underaged by the time he joins the fight. It’s all just as miserable as his brother said in his letters.
The tale ends with a big sense of relief that the war is over even as families mourn their lost ones. All told, it was an educational and entertaining read. 4/5 stars.
The Narration: Rafe Beckley did an amazing job with this book. I adored most his pigeon impersonations. Yes, he actually makes distinctly different pigeon noises. I have no idea if they are accurate but it was a very nice touch. He had a great young man’s voice for Pigeon and distinct voices for all the characters. His female voices, tho few and far between, were believable. The pacing was perfect and there were no tech issues with this recording. 5/5 stars.
I received a free copy of this book. My opinions are 100% my own.
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- Barry T McCoy
- 03-29-21
Great Book!!
A story for peace. As brilliant story for peace. Thank you so much Adrian Beckingham and Rafe Beckley.
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- Margie Howell
- 03-27-21
A TRIUMPH!
Because this story was worth the time to listen. Thank you author Adrian Beckingham and narrator Rafe Beckley for a solid job done in sharing so important and so moving a subject as WW1.
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