Audiobooks by David Churchill

Crossfire: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING THRILLER FOR 2025

"Wilbur Smith returns to his legendary Courtney Series with a brand new World War II thriller. 1943. The tide of the Second World War is turning. The Russian victory at Stalingrad - the bloodiest battle in history - has opened the door for the Allies. Now, they must strike decisively at the heart of Hitler's Reich. But military success cannot be guaranteed without total secrecy. Special Operations Executive, Saffron Courtney, is sailing from the west coast of Scotland to New York on the Queen Mary. Her mission - to identify the mole in the British Embassy in Washington, DC before Churchill and Roosevelt begin the talks that will determine British and American military strategy in the wake of the Russian victory. Haunted by the ghosts of her previous mission in the Low Countries, and with dangerous agents on her tail, Saffron must find the spy who could derail the Allied advance. Time is running out. Will Saffron complete her mission? Or will she succumb to the shadows of her past? BOOK 25 IN THE LONG-RUNNING EPIC HISTORICAL SAGA OF THE COURTNEY FAMILY AND THE FOLLOW ON FROM WORLDWIDE BESTSELLERS COURTNEY'S WAR AND LEGACY OF WAR."

David Churchill, Wilbur Smith (Author), Sean Barrett (Narrator)

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[Italian] - La guerra dei Courtney

"Due eroi. Un legame indissolubile. Parigi, 1939. Separati dalla guerra, a migliaia di miglia di distanza l'uno dall'altra, Saffron Courtney e Gerhard von Meerbach lottano per sopravvivere al conflitto che sta dilaniando l'Europa. Gerhard, ostile al regime nazista, è deciso a rimanere fedele ai propri ideali nonostante tutto e combatte per la madre patria nella speranza di poterla liberare, un giorno, da Hitler. Ma quando la sua unità si ritrova coinvolta nell'inferno della battaglia di Stalingrado, si rende conto che le possibilità di uscirne vivo si affievoliscono di giorno in giorno. Saffron, che nel frattempo è stata reclutata dal SOE, l'Esecutivo Operazioni Speciali, e inviata nel Belgio occupato per scoprire in che modo i Nazisti sono riusciti a infiltrarsi nella rete dell'organizzazione, deve trovare il modo di sfuggire all'implacabile spia tedesca che le dà la caccia. Costretti ad affrontare forze malvagie e orrori indicibili, i due innamorati sono chiamati a prendere la decisione più difficile: sacrificare se stessi, o cercare di sopravvivere a ogni costo nella speranza che il destino, un giorno, permetterà loro di ritrovarsi. Una storia epica di coraggio, tradimento e amore imperituro che porta il lettore nel cuore della Seconda guerra mondiale."

David Churchill, Wilbur Smith (Author), Massimo Bitossi (Narrator)

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Crime Control and Everyday Life in the Victorian City: The Police and the Public

"The history of modern crime control is usually presented as a narrative of how the state wrested control over the governance of crime from the civilian public. Most accounts trace the decline of a participatory, discretionary culture of crime control in the early modern era, and its replacement by a centralized, bureaucratic system of responding to offending. The formation of the 'new' professional police forces in the nineteenth century is central to this narrative: henceforth, it is claimed, the priorities of criminal justice were to be set by the state, as ordinary people lost what authority they had once exercised over dealing with offenders. This book challenges this established view, and presents a fundamental reinterpretation of changes to crime control in the age of the new police. It breaks new ground by providing a highly detailed, empirical analysis of everyday crime control in Victorian provincial cities—revealing the tremendous activity which ordinary people displayed in responding to crime—alongside a rich survey of police organization and policing in practice."

David Churchill (Author), Lucy Rayner (Narrator)

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