No One Goes Alone: A Novel Free Audiobook Download by Erik Larson

'No One Goes Alone: A Novel' is a story about four individuals who have experienced heroic acts in their own lives. Three of the characters are young men and one woman who come from different backgrounds but all share an experience that has made them believe in their own immortality. Their stories are then intertwined further with one of the four being a young girl and the other three being her father, grandfather, and great-grandfather. Together these characters share a common bond as they each seek to re-live their personal moment of glory over and over again.

The year is 1914, and a major war has been raging in Europe for decades. The final battle of the Great War is happening on the Belgian- French border, with American troops fighting alongside British and French forces. In this shifting tide of history, an American man named Axel Foley joins up with the British military intelligence to spy on the Germans. But when a sniper kills his friend and mentor, he's pulled into an even more complicated world where spies are everywhere and no one goes alone.

The story is narrated by Jean-Noël Lacombe, a French diplomat with the United Nations in Afghanistan. As he watches the last of his family flee their homeland during the Soviet invasion of 1979, he reflects on how individuals are actually more powerful than governments and military actions when it comes to shaping events in history.

No One Goes Alone: A Novel is a riveting, suspenseful and beautifully written page turner from Erik Larson. The author of Devil in the White City uses excerpts from his interviews with people who lived through the events that were the focus of his book. The title refers to the Titanic disaster, but No One Goes Alone is a novel about seven friends who are all trying to escape their pasts and make something of themselves when they decide to take a trip on the Titanic. Disillusioned by society's treatment of them, they come together for this voyage as an escape from reality. It is an astounding novel with an addictive quality that will leave readers wanting more!

In the late 1980s, in the Swedish port city of Malmo, 10-year-old Viktor is playing with his friends by the docks when he witnesses a gang murder. Afterward, Viktor's mother begs him to never play by the docks again.

No One Goes Alone by Erik Larson is the true story of the six Americans who tried to escape from North Korea late in 1950, just after the outbreak of the Korean War. At that time, these six escapees were captured and tried for war crimes. The capture and trial remain a dark chapter of American history- but it was also an incredible story of bravery and humanity. In No One Goes Alone, Erik Larson tells this story with impeccable research and nuance - as well as telling us how one man survived in Nazi Germany while his father was in a concentration camp.