Ep 65: Ernie Pyle – Brave Men

Ep 65: Ernie Pyle – Brave Men

Merry Christmas from We Have Ways of Making You Talk. Over the next 12 days Al and James are reading extracts from some of their favourite books about the Second World War. Today James is reading from Brave Men, by Ernie Pyle

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