Download 21 Lives in 2013: Obituaries from the Washington Post AudioBook Free
A furnished soldier. A pioneering scientist. A best-selling novelist. A beloved world leader. To remember per annum is to remember those exceptional people the planet lost, and acknowledge their legacies. In 21 Lives, The Washington Post gathers a selection of its most resonant obituaries from 2013 into one compilation. It commemorates lives of men and women both as internationally renowned as Nelson Mandela and Chinua Achebe, as noteworthy in their fields as Esther Williams and Virginia Johnson, so that as colourful as Gussie Moran and Josh Burdette. It acknowledges both adored and the feared, spanning a lifetime of activities and memory, and it accurately captures the individual scale of the way the world altered in 2013.
