The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers audiobook. Genre: thriller Containing many realistic details based on Childers' own sailing trips along the German North Sea coast, the book is the retelling of a yachting expedition in the early 20th century combined with an adventurous spy story. It was one of the early invasion novels which predicted war with Germany and called for British preparedness. The plot involves the uncovering of secret German preparations for an invasion of the United Kingdom. It is often called the first modern spy novel, although others are as well, it was certainly very influential in the genre and for its time. The book enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I and was extremely influential. Winston Churchill later credited it as a major reason that the Admiralty decided to establish naval bases at Invergordon, the Firth of Forth and Scapa Flow. Chapters (Approximate) (00:00:00) Chapter 00 (00:05:53) Chapter 01 (00:24:05) Chapter 02 (00:57:06) Chapter 03 (01:22:11) Chapter 04 (01:41:33) Chapter 05 (02:02:37) Chapter 06 (02:20:28) Chapter 07 (02:50:04) Chapter 08 (03:18:12) Chapter 09 (03:38:52) Chapter 10 (03:57:54) Chapter 11 (04:18:32) Chapter 12 (04:43:29) Chapter 13 (04:56:42) Chapter 14 (05:16:38) Chapter 15 (05:34:13) Chapter 16 (06:06:40) Chapter 17 (06:34:21) Chapter 18 (06:48:48) Chapter 19 (07:21:37) Chapter 20 (07:48:35) Chapter 21 (08:23:52) Chapter 22 (08:53:48) Chapter 23 (09:25:36) Chapter 24 (10:02:08) Chapter 25 (10:31:47) Chapter 26 (11:03:08) Chapter 27 (11:39:59) Chapter 28 (12:00:59) Chapter 29 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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