The Lord of the Rings BBC Dramatisation - Audio CD This trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects Get Other Middle Earth Audio Books click here The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R. Tolkien - BBC - Audio Book CDs Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 13 Hours 12 CDs This trilogy of Tolkien's Middle Earth is presented in dramatisation from the BBC with original music and sound effects. It has actors playing the parts of the stories characters - it is not a reading of the book. In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths and Sauron The Dark Lord forged the One Ring filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was tak click here.....

A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 139 minutes The play features three interlocking plots connected by a celebration of the wedding of Duke Theseus of Athens and the Amazonian queen Hippolyta and set simultaneously in the woodland and in the realm of Fairyland under the light of the moon. In the opening scene Hermia refuses to follow her father's Egeus's instructions for her to marry his chosen man Demetrius. In response Egeus quotes before Theseus an ancient Athenian law whereby a daughter must marry the suitor chosen by her father or else face death. Theseus does not want this young girl to die and offers her another choice lifelong chastity worshipping the goddess Diana as a nun. (The word 'nun' in this sense is an anachronism.) Hermia and her lover Lysander decide to elope by escaping through the forest more here.....

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 137 minutes Prior to the first act an Induction frames the play as a "kind of history" played in front of a drunkard named Sly who thinks he is a Lord. The "Shrew" is Katherina Minola the eldest daughter of Baptista Minola a Lord in Padua. Her temper is extremely volatile and no man can control her. She ties her sister to a chair in one scene and in another attacks a music tutor with his own fiddle. Her younger sister Bianca Minola is nubile and much sought after by the nobles. Baptista has sworn not to allow his younger daughter to marry before Katherina is wed. Bia more information.....

Dracula by Bram Stoker read by Richard E. Grant Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Dracula - Bram Stoker - Read by Richard E. Grant - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 3 Audio CDs 3 Hours Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula. Dracula has been attributed to many literary genres including vampire literature horror fiction the gothic novel and invasion literature. Structurally it is an epistolary novel that is told as a series of diary entries and letters. Literary critics have examined many themes in the novel such as the role of women in Victorian culture conventional and conservative sexuality immigration colonialism postcolonialism and folkl more details.....

King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table by Benedict Flynn Unabridged 2 CD Audio Book Set Get other Children's AudioBooks click here King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book CD Brand New (2 CDs - 2.5 Hours): About King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table These stories are about how many years ago Arthur the once and future King of England set out to save his country from the troubles that plagued it aided by the brave knights of the Round Table and the most famous sword in the world Excalibur. How Merlin the Wizard fought against the wicked Morgana le Fay's enchantments and how Arthur loved and lost the beautiful Guinevere his Queen. About Benedict Flynn Benedict Flynn's imaginative retellings of classic stories have reintroduced characters such as King Arthur and Robin Hood to a new generation of children. He lives in Great Britain. King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table - Benedict Flynn - Audio Book CD more here.....

Othello by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Othello by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs 181 minutes The play opens with Roderigo a rich and dissolute gentleman complaining to Iago a high-ranking soldier that Iago has not told him about the secret marriage between Desdemona the daughter of a Senator named Brabantio and Othello a Moorish general in the Venetian army. He is upset by this development because he lusts for Desdemona and has previously asked her father for her hand in marriage. Iago is upset with Othello for promoting a younger man named Michael Cassio above him and tells Roderigo that he (Iago) is simply using Othello for his own advantage. Iago's argument against Cassio is that he is a scholarly tactician and has no real battle experience from which he can draw strategy. find out more.....

One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey Unabridged read by Tom Parker Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 Audio CDs 10 Hours One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962) is a novel written by Ken Kesey. It is set in an Oregon asylum and serves as a study of the institutional process and the human mind. The novel was written in 1959 by Kesey although it wasn't published until 1962. The novel was such a success that it was later adapted into a 1975 film which won five Academy Awards. Although the novel was controversial when it was released due to the fact that it contained much sexual content it later became known as a classic American novel. Time Magazine included the novel in click here.....

50 Selp-Help Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden 50 Inspirational books to transform your life 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Self-Help Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) 50 Self-Help Classics : 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life * An introduction to the self-help phenomenon with list and thematic guide to the best works. * 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. (Note - these are summaries of the 50 Books NOT the whole 50 books) * Includes a further list '50 More Classics' * Named by Shape magazine (US) as one of the 'Ten best self-help guides' along with titles by Stephen Covey Dale Carnegie and Miguel Ruiz. * Winner 2004 Benjamin extra info.....

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte read by Joanna David Get Other Bronte Audio Books CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs Jane Eyre is not your typical romance. It is a story of a woman who struggles with a world in which she doesn’t quite fit. Once finished with her schooling and with no family that really cares for her she strikes out on her own as a governess. Jane Eyre searches for love someone to care for her and someone to care for and finds it in unexpected places. Jane Eyre is a young orphan being raised by Mrs. Reed her cruel wealthy aunt. A servant named Bessie provides Jane with some of the few kindnesses she receives telling her stories and singing songs to her. One day as punishment for fighting with her bullying cousin John Reed Jane's aunt imprisons Jane in the red-room the room in which Jane's Uncle Reed died. While locked in Jane believing that she sees her uncle's ghost screams and faints. She wakes to find herself in the care of Bessie and the kindl more details.....

Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein Read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Sci-Fi Audio Books click here Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein - Audio Book Brand New : (still shrink wrapped) Unabridged 16 hours 13 CDs The most famous science fiction novel written Stranger in a Strange Land is the epic saga of an earthling born and educated on Mars who arrives on our planet with superhuman powers and a total ignorance of the mores of man. His name is Valentine Michael Smith and he is destined to become a freak a media commodity a scam artist a searcher a sexual pioneer a neon evangelist a martyr and finally a messiah. This novel became not only the bible of the "love generation " it managed to transcend the science fiction genre to achieve the status of a moder find out more.....

I Claudius by Robert Graves Read by Derek Jacobi Other Classic Audio Book CDs Click here Get the Odyessy by Homer on AudioBook click here I Claudius by Robert Graves - Read by Derek Jacobi AudioBook CD Brand New : 4 Audio CDs - 5 Hours I Claudius and Claudius the God were written as if they were the secret autobiography of Claudius the fourth emperor of Rome (r. 41-54 A.D.). The historical Claudius was kept out of public life by his family the Julio-Claudians until his sudden elevation at the age of 49. This was due to several disabilities—including a stammer a limp and various nervous tics—which made him appear mentally deficient to his relatives. This is how he was defined by scholars for most of history and Graves uses these peculiarities to develop a sympathetic character whose survival in a murderous dynasty more information.....

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy Unabridged 61 hours read by Frederick Davidson Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Read by Frederick Davidson - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 48 Audio CDs 61 Hours War and Peace is a novel by Leo Tolstoy first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russkii Vestnik which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. It is usually described as one of Tolstoy's two major masterpieces (the other being Anna Karenina) as well as one of the world's greatest novels. War and Peace offered a new kind of fiction with a great many characters caught up in a plot that covered nothing less than the grand subjects indicated by the title combined with the equally large topics of youth marriage age and death. Though it is often called a novel today it broke so many conventions of the more details.....

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 75th Anniversary edition read by Michael York Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Brave New World - Aldous Huxley- AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 7 Audio CDs 8.3 Hours Brave New World is a 1932 novel by Aldous Huxley. Set in the London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book) the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology and sleep-learning that combine to change society. Huxley answers this book with a reassessment in an essay Brave New World Revisited (1958) and with his final work a novel titled Island (1962) both summarized below. Brave New World is Huxley's most famous novel. The ironic title ultimately derives from Miranda's speech in Shakespeare's The Tempest Act V Scene I: "O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new find out more.....

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder Unabridged read by Cherry Jones Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Get Other Childrens Audio Books CD click here Little House on the Prairie - Laura Ingalls Wilder - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours At the beginning of this story Pa Ingalls decides to sell the house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and move to the Indian Territory near Independence Kansas as there were widely circulating stories that the land (technically still under Osage ownership) would be opened to settlement by homesteaders imminently. So Laura along with Pa and Ma and Mary and baby Carrie move to Kansas. Along the way Pa trades his two horses for two Western mustangs which Laura and Mary name Pet and Patty. When the family reaches Indian Territory they meet Mr. Edwards who is extremely polite to Ma but tells Laura and Mary that he is "a wildcat from Tennessee." Mr. Edwards is an excellent neighbor and helps the Ingalls in every way he can beginning with helping Pa erect their house. Then Pa bui more here.....

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo Audio Drama Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Les Miserables - Victor Hugo - Audio Drama CD Brand New : Audio Drama 3 Audio CDs 169 minutes - not recommended for children under 8 The story that has thrilled millions comes to life in a brand new way in Focus on the Family Radio Theatre’s Les Miserables. This audio drama beautifully portrays the redeeming power of forgiveness through the story of Jean Valjean an embittered convict whose life is changed by a single act of kindness. Recorded in London with some of England’s finest actors it will mesmerize adults and families alike. About the Author Victor Hugo Victor-Marie Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet playwright novelist essayist visual artist statesman human rights activist and exponent of the Romantic movement in France. In France Hugo's literary reputation rests primarily on his poetic and dramatic output and only secondarily on his novels. Among many volumes of poetry Les Contemplations and La Légend extra info.....

The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy Unabridged read by J Charles Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Hunt for Red October - Tom Clancy - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 13 Audio CDs 15 Hours Marko Ramius a Lithuanian who has risen to high levels of trust in the Soviet Navy intends to defect to the United States with his officers and the experimental nuclear submarine Red October a Typhoon-class submarine equipped with a revolutionary stealth propulsion system. The propulsion system is described as a pumpjet or magnetohydrodynamic system nicknamed "Caterpillar Drive" making sonar detection extremely difficult. The result as is immediately apparent to Jack Ryan and the admirals in the Joint Chiefs of Staff is a strategic weapon platform that extra info.....

I am Legend by Richard Matheson Unabridged read by Robertson Dean Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here I am Legend - Richard Matheson - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours I Am Legend is a 1954 science fiction novel by Richard Matheson about the last man alive in a future Los Angeles California. It is notable as influential on the developing modern vampire genre as well as the zombie genre in popularizing the fictional concept of a worldwide apocalypse due to disease and in exploring the notion of vampirism as a disease. The novel was a success and was adapted to film as The Last Man on Earth in 1964 as The Omega Man in 1971 and again in 2007 as I Am Legend. This release of the novel includes several of Matheson's short stories: Buried Talents The Near Departed Prey Witch War Dance of the Dead Dress of White Silk Mad House Funeral From Shadowed Places and Person to Person. I Am Legend is the story of Robert Neville - apparently the sole survivor of a Bacterial pandemic apocalypse the symptoms of which resemb more.....

50 Prosperity Classics by Tom Butler-Bowden Attract It Create it Manage it Share it - wisdom from the most valuable books on wealth creation and abudance. 50 Self Help Classics / 50 Success Classics / 50 Prosperity Classics/50 Spiritual Classics on Audio click here 50 Prosperity Classics - Tom Butler-Bowden - Audio-Book CD Brand New : Unabridged 9 CDs ( a summary and analysis of the 50 books and the key ideas -not a reading of all 50 books) # An introduction to the prosperity literature with list and thematic guide to the landmark works. # 50 commentaries on 50 classic works: the story of each book's writing their life-changing ideas their impact some representative quotes the meaning of each book 'in a nutshell' and cross-referencing to similar classics. # Includes 'quick tour of the literature' 'characteristics of successful people' and chronological list of titles. Read Tom Butler-Bowd more information.....

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh read by Jeremy Irons Get Other Classic AudioBook CD click here Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh - Audio Book CD Brand New : (unabridged) 10 CDs - 11.5 hours Brideshead Revisited The Sacred Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder is a novel by the English writer Evelyn Waugh first published in 1945. Waugh wrote that the novel "deals with what is theologically termed 'the operation of Grace' that is to say the unmerited and unilateral act of love by which God continually calls souls to Himself". This is achieved by an examination of the aristocratic Marchmain family as seen by the narrator Charles Ryder. Time Magazine included Brideshead Revisited in its list of "All-time 100 Novels". In various letters Waugh himself refers to the novel a number of times as his magnum opus; however in 1950 he wrote to Graham Greene saying &q more.....

The Essential Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Poetry and Recordings Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here The Essential Dylan Thomas - Audio CD Brand New : 4 CDs 4.8 hours This varied well-chosen selection brings onto one CD set the best of Dylan Thomas: the legendary recording of 'Under Milk Wood ' with Richard Burton and Richard Bebb as narrators plus also two radio productions he wrote before that great classic which while interesting in themselves show how 'Under Milk Wood' grew gradually in his imagination. Thomas was a charismatic if idiosyncratic performer of his own poetry and stories and this set provides a representative selection. But performances of Dylan Thomas have moved on and the greatness of the writer as a poet and storyteller are perhaps best heard in new recordings by actors of our own time. Here Bebb Madoc and Hughes share some of Th more.....

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee Unabridged - Read by Sissy Spacek Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 11 Audio CDs 12 hrs The story takes place during three years of the Great Depression in the fictional "tired old town" of Maycomb Alabama. The narrator six-year-old Scout Finch lives with her older brother Jem and their widowed father Atticus a middle-aged lawyer. Jem and Scout befriend a boy named Dill who visits Maycomb to stay with his aunt for the summer. The three children are terrified of and fascinated with their neighbor the reclusive "Boo" Radley. The adults of Maycomb are hesitant to talk about Boo and for many years few have seen him. The children feed each oth more information.....

The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare A fully dramatised recording Get other William Shakespeare plays on Audio CD click here Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare - Unabridged Play on Audio CD Brand New : Unabridged 2 Audio CDs 88 minutes Egeon faces execution unless he can pay a fine of a thousand marks. He tells his sad story. In his youth he married and had twin sons. On the same day a poor woman also gave birth to twin boys and he purchased these as slaves to his sons. Soon afterwards the family made a sea voyage and was hit by a tempest. Egeon lashed himself to the main-mast with one son and one slave while his wife was rescued by one boat Ege find out more.....

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury Unabridged read by Christopher Hurt Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 4 Audio CDs 5 Hours Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian speculative fiction novel authored by Ray Bradbury and first published in 1953. The novel presents a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic and critical thought through reading is outlawed. The central character Guy Montag is employed as a "fireman" (which in this future means "book burner"). The number "451" refers to the temperature (in Fahrenheit) at which the books burn when the "firemen" burn them "for the good of humanity". Written in the early years of the Cold War the novel is a critique of what Bradbury saw as an increasingly dysfunctional American society. The concept began with Bradbury's short story "Bright Phoenix " written in 1947 but first published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction in 1963. The original short story was reworked into the novella The Fireman and published in the February 1951 issue o more.....

Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes Starring Sir John Gielgud Ralph Richardson and Orson Welles 12 Dramatized Episodes Get Other Classic Books on Audio click here Baker Street Dozen - Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Audio Book CD New 5.25 Hours 6 CDs The acclaimed exciting fully dramatized performances of twelve Conan Doyle classics. It’s elementary that any Conan Doyle fan will want this splendid set of Sherlock Holmes mysteries—twelve timeless classics performed as radio theater linked by violin music interludes. The great Sir John Gielgud stars as the sleuth of Baker Street with Ralph Richardson as his venerable companion Dr. Watson and Orson Welles as the nefarious Professor Moriarty. With three giants of the theater in such colorful roles it’s no mystery why this collection was so popular on cassette. Includes: “The Blue Carbuncle” “A Case of Identity” “Charles August Milverton” “The Dying Detective” “The Final Problem” “The Golden Pince-Nez” “The Norwood Builder” “A Scandal in Bohemia” “The Second Stain” more.....

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway Unabridged - Read by Donald Sutherland Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 3 Audio CDs The Old Man and the Sea is a novella (just over 100 pages in length) by Ernest Hemingway written in Cuba in 1951 and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction to be produced by Hemingway and published in his lifetime. One of his most famous works it centers upon Santiago an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream.The Old Man and the Sea recounts an epic battle between an old experienced fisherman and a giant marlin said to be the largest catch of his life. It opens by explaining that the fisherman who is named Santiago (but only directly referred to outside of dialogue as "th extra info.....

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Unabridged read by Jay O. Sanders Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - Unabridged AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 16 Audio CDs 19.5 Hours During the second half of World War II a soldier named Yossarian is stationed with his Air Force squadron on the island of Pianosa near the Italian coast in the Mediterranean Sea. Yossarian and his friends endure a nightmarish absurd existence defined by bureaucracy and violence: they are inhuman resources in the eyes of their blindly ambitious superior officers. The squadron is thrown thoughtlessly into brutal combat situations and bombing runs in which it is more important for the squadron members to capture good aerial photographs of explosions than to destroy their targets. Their colonels continually rais click here.....

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen read by Julie Christie Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen - AudioBook CD Brand New : abridged 6 Audio CDs 5.5 Hours Sense and Sensibility is a novel by the English novelist Jane Austen. Published in 1811 it was the first of Austen's novels to be published under the pseudonym "A Lady". The story revolves around Elinor and Marianne two daughters of Mr. Dashwood by his second wife. They have a younger sister Margaret and an older half-brother named John. When their father dies the family estate passes to John and the Dashwood women are left in reduced circumstances. The novel follows the Dashwood sisters to their new home a cottage on a distant relative's property where they experience both romance and heartbreak. The contrast between the sisters' characters is eventually resolved as they each find love and lasting happiness. This leads some extra info.....

The Voice of the Poet by T.S. Eliot - read by the Author Get Other Classic Audio Books CD click here The Voice of the Poet - T.S. Eliot - Audio CD and Book Brand New : 1Audio CD and Book of the Poems Featuring rare archival recordings of the featured poet reading his own work! Each program in Random House Audio Voices' exclusive THE VOICE OF THE POET series is accompanied by a book containing the text of the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy. About the Author T.S. Eliot (26 September 1888 – 4 January 1965) was a poet dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948. Among his most famous writings are the poems The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock The Waste Land The Hollow Men Ash Wednesday and Four Quartets; the plays Murder in the Cathedral and The Cocktail Party; and the essay "Tradition and the Individual Talent". Eliot was born in the United States moved to the United Kingdom in 1914 (at age 25) and became a British subject in 1927 at the age of 39. Of his nationality and its role in his work Eliot said: "[My poetry] wouldn’t be what it is if I’d been born in England click here.....

The Caedmon Collection Dylan Thomas - Audio Book CD Introduced by Billy Collins Get other Poetry audio books on CD click here Dylan Thomas - The Caedmon Collection - Audio Book CD Brand New (still shrink wrapped): 11 CDs 12.5 Hours Beginning in February 1952 Dylan Thomas made a series of memorable and historic recordings for a new record label called Caedmon. In fact Dylan Thomas was the first to record for this new label started by two 22-year-old women Marianne Roney and Barbara Cohen. Little did they know that in addition to capturing a part of history they also launched an industry of spoken-word recording. This collection not only contains the incredible Caedmon recording sessions but also recordings from the BBC CBC and other archival material Caedmon originally published in the 1950s and 1960s. Highlights include: "A Child's Christmas in Wales" and "Five Poems"; "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" his prose: Adventures in the Skin Trade and Quite Early One Morning and his final work - Under Milk Wood a play. Also included is the famous recording of the first ever full stage performance of 'Unde more.....

Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance with Death Get Other Science Fiction Audio Books CD click here Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut - AudioBook CD Brand New : Unabridged 5 Audio CDs 6 Hours Slaughterhouse-Five; or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance With Death is a 1969 novel by Kurt Vonnegut. One of his most popular works and widely regarded as a classic it combines science fiction elements with an analysis of the human condition from an uncommon perspective using time travel as a plot device. The bombing of Dresden in World War II the aftermath of which Vonnegut witnessed is the starting point. Slaughterhouse-Five spans the life of a man who has "come unstuck in time." It is the story of Billy Pilgrim experiencing different time periods of his life most notably his experience in World War II more details.....