About This Book
A Penguin Classic βAge can never dull this kind of writing,β writes the Chicago Tribune of John Steinbeckβs dispatches from World War II, filed for the New York Herald Tribune in 1943, which vividly captured the human side of war. Writing from England in the midst of the London blitz, North Africa,...
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5h 19m
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180 WPM
3h 50m
average reader
250 WPM
2h 44m
fast reader
350 WPM
π 57,475 wordsπ
8 days at 30 min/day
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Audiobook (1.5x)
4 h 15 min
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6 h 23 min
Audio 2x
3 h 12 min
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