03496cim a2200541 i 4500 416561240 TxAuBib 20200210120000.0 r 121004s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781980027034 198002703X Z15219 Recorded Books TxAuBib rda Downing, David,. Diary of a dead man on leave [TP] / David Downing. Unabridged. Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, [2019] ℗2019. 1 online resource (9 hr., 47 min.) spw rdacontent s rdamedia cr rdacarrier rdacontent c rdamedia rdacarrier RB Mystery RB Mystery Downloadable audio file. Title from title screen. Access restricted to subscribing institutions. Narrated by Paul Woodson and David de Vries. From bestselling author David Downing, master of historical espionage, comes a heart-wrenching depiction of Germany in the days leading up to World War II and the difficult choices of one man of conviction. In April 1938, a man calling himself Josef Hofmann arrives at a boarding house in Hamm, Germany, and lets a room from the widow who owns it. Fifty years later, Walter Gersdorff, the widow's son, who was eleven years old in the spring of 1938, discovers the carefully hidden diary the boarder had kept during his stay, even though he should never have written any of its contents down. What Walter finds is a scathing chronicle of one the most tumultuous years in German history, narrated by a secret agent on a deadly mission. Josef Hofmann was not the returned Argentinian immigrant he'd said he was-he was a communist spy under Moscow's command to try to reconnect with any remnants of Germany's suppressed communist party. Hofmann's bosses believe the common workers are the only way to stop the German war machine from within. Posing as a railroad man, Hofmann sets out on his game of "Russian roulette," approaching Hamm's ex-party members one at a time and delicately feeling out their allegiances. He always knew his mission would most likely end in his death, and he was satisfied to make that sacrifice for the revolution if it could help stop Hitler and his abominable ideology. But as he grows close to the Gersdorffs, accidentally stepping into the role of the father Walter never had, Hofmann begins to wish for another kind of hope in his life. Downloadable applications available for access via iOS 4.0+ devices (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and Android 2.1+ devices. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Requires RBdigital Media Manager. System requirements: 200 MB of free disk space, 512 MB of RAM, Windows Installer 3.1, Microsoft .NET Framework 4 (x86 and x64), Windows Media Player 10 QA. 20200210. Audiobooks. Downloadable audiobooks. de Vries, David, narrator. Woodson, Paul,. Recorded Books, Inc. RB Mystery. RB Mystery. https://jeffersoncoco.rbdigital.com/#titles/9781980027034 https://d2cv0ie6dlin9h.cloudfront.net/Z15219/Z15219_image_95x140.jpg Image