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The Riddle of the Sands | [Eskine Childers]
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The Riddle of the Sands

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  • by Eskine Childers
  • Narrated by George Hagan
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  • LENGTH
    12 hrs and 38 mins
  • RELEASE DATE
    01-22-09
  • AUDIO FORMATS
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  • Program Type
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  • PUBLISHER
    RNIB

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The Riddle of the Sands: A Record of Secret Service by Irish author Erskine Childers is often described as the first modern thirller and was one of the first popular spy novels.

Published in 1903 novel it spearheaded a genre and influenced the great espionage writers John Buchan, Ian Fleming, John le Carre and many others.

The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom and is sited by Winston Churchill as one of the major reasons the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow.

Robert Erskine Childers (1870 - 1922) was an Irish nationalist. Son of British Orientalist scholar Robert Caesar Childers; the cousin of Hugh Childers and Robert Barton; and the father of the fourth President of Ireland, Erskine Hamilton Childers.

Please note: This is a vintage recording. The audio quality may not be up to modern day standards.

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    The Riddle of the Sands has a reputation as an exciting spy story, but there was nothing exciting about this reading. I felt like I was enduring, rather than enjoying this book.

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