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Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front

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(4,417 Sterne; 6 Bewertungen)

A personal account of the American author's visit to Europe in January 1915 while a war correspondent in Belgium for The Saturday Evening Post. She writes: "War is not two great armies meeting in a clash and frenzy of battle. It is much more than that. War is a boy carried on a stretcher, looking up at God's blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been wounded by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, torn, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in icy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorosa for the son she has given. For King and Country!" (Summary by MaryAnn and M.R.R.) (10 hr 26 min)

Chapters

For King and Country

4:26

Read by Mary in Arkansas

Taking a Chance

27:01

Read by Mary in Arkansas

'Somewhere in France'

15:59

Read by MaryAnn

La Panne

12:41

Read by MaryAnn

' 'Twas a Famous Victory '

23:11

Read by Marla Welker

A Talk with the King of the Belgians

23:42

Read by Marla Welker

The Cause

15:14

Read by Mary in Arkansas

The Story with an End

12:36

Read by Denise Nordell

The Night Raid on Dunkirk

9:34

Read by Denise Nordell

No Man's Land

22:44

Read by MaryAnn

The Iron Division

22:19

Read by Mary in Arkansas

At the House of the Barrier

13:46

Read by Pamela Nagami

Night in the Trenches

22:59

Read by James K. White

'Wipers'

29:30

Read by MaryAnn

Lady Decie's Story

19:29

Read by Gnomesb

Running the Blockade

21:32

Read by BettyB

The Man of Ypres

23:16

Read by Pamela Nagami

In the Line of the 'Mitrailleuse'

17:00

Read by Pamela Nagami

French Guns in Action

22:06

Read by James K. White

'I Nibble Them'

7:18

Read by Geoff Blanchard

Dunkirk: From my Journal

5:22

Read by Geoff Blanchard

Tea with the Air-Fighters

15:21

Read by fzarate

The Women at the Front

12:21

Read by Geoff Blanchard

The Little 'Sick and Sorry' House

15:16

Read by Sarah Jennings

Flight

11:40

Read by Sarah Jennings

Volunteers and Patriots

7:44

Read by BettyB

A Luncheon at British Headquarters

18:57

Read by BettyB

A Strange Party

11:19

Read by BettyB

Sir John French

12:47

Read by BettyB

Along the Great Bethune Road

15:45

Read by BettyB

The Military Secret

12:37

Read by BettyB

Queen Mary of England

27:00

Read by Gnomesb

The Queen of The Belgians

20:12

Read by BettyB

The Red Badge of Mercy

17:45

Read by Kathleen Moore

In Terms of Life and Death

8:58

Read by Kathleen Moore

The Losing Game

19:09

Read by BettyB

How Americans Can Help

15:00

Read by BettyB

An Army of Children

13:22

Read by BettyB

Bewertungen

(4,5 Sterne)

Very good story. Kept my interest all the way. Now onto another Rinehart book.

A very good view of the war and an interesting read

(4 Sterne)

kam

(5 Sterne)

absolutely powerful in its content and inspiringly written.