A Thousand Places Left Behind Audiobook (free download)

Born and raised in Mississippi, Peter K. Lutken, Jr. (1920–2014) joined the army in 1941 and was assigned to the Coast Artillery. Originally sent to India to guard airfields, he was reassigned to the British V Force, then the American OSS (Office of Strategic Services and precursor to the CIA) after he volunteered for reconnaissance missions behind Japanese lines. Skills he had learned as a boy in the backwoods and swamps around the Pearl River stood him in good stead, and by the end of the war, he attained the rank of major, commanding an entire battalion of ethnic Kachins and other local people of northern Burma (now called Myanmar).

This week, the audio book version of Peter K. Lutken Jr.'s A Thousand Places Left Behind has made it into the top 50 bestsellers in the History category. You can legally download or stream this audio book and listen for free at Spotify, and in high quality at Audible.