It takes the average reader 4 hours and 36 minutes to read The Story of the Telegraph and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable / By Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. by Charles Frederick Briggs
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A True and Wholly Engrossing Tale of High Finance and Treachery in Which the Secret of a Wartime Tragedy is Revealed Through a Contemporary Drama.On 10th June 1944, four days after the Allied invasion of Normandy, the inhabitants of a remote village in South West France were rounded up by a company of SS soldiers and all but a handful were shot or burnt to death - 642 in total.The atrocity and its particularly disturbing details have never been adequately explained until now. In 1982 Robin Mackness met the one man left alive who held the knowledge which made terrible sense of the massacre. Five further years of thorough investigations convinced the author that he had discovered the true secret of Oradour. It cost him twenty-one months in prison and much else besides.
The Story of the Telegraph and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable / By Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. by Charles Frederick Briggs is 268 pages long, and a total of 69,144 words.
This makes it 90% the length of the average book. It also has 85% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 17 minutes to read The Story of the Telegraph and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable / By Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. aloud.
The Story of the Telegraph and a History of the Great Atlantic Cable / By Charles F. Briggs and Augustus Maverick. is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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