From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts, credited to Bruce Bairnsfather, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts by Bruce Bairnsfather. Read in English by DrPGould This second volume of memories from the Great War (WWI) by the celebrated war cartoonist and social observer, begins with Bairnsfather's recuperation from injuries suffered in the Second Battle of Ypres and ends with the Armistice. In this phase of his war activity, Bairnsfather is repeatedly hampered by his inability to fully recovery from his war wounds, and is eventually removed from combat service. This perceived disaster for his war career actually was a lucky break, because he was then attached to British Intelligence as an authorized war cartoonist--perhaps the only one of the war. In this capacity, he was ordered to visit the various allied fronts, observing and drawing the aspects of the war in those locations that impressed themselves upon his mind and memory. His perspective, visiting and witnessing first hand the interactions between the various allied armies, remains unique, and his inimitable style provide a valuable as well as entertaining glimpse of allied operations in the final stages of the war. ( DrPGould)

Recording facts

• Recording title: From Mud to Mufti: With Old Bill on all Fronts
• Author credits: Bruce Bairnsfather
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 4:54:15

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• India
• cartooning

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 00 - Dedication & Preface — 5:03
2. 01 - Ch. 1 Begins in Hospital — 6:53
3. 02 - Ch. 2 The Medical Board Mystery — 5:01
4. 03 - Ch. 3 The Depot — 7:50
5. 04 - Ch. 4 I Take Over a Company — 9:58
6. 05 - Ch. 5 Barrack Routine — 5:59
7. 06 - Ch 6 Handing Over — 6:09
8. 07 - Ch 7 Those Field Days — 7:40
9. 08 - Ch 8 My Soldier Servant — 6:46
10. 09 - Ch 9 The Censor Defied — 7:58
11. 10 - Ch 10 The Final Polish — 10:57
12. 11 - Ch 11 those Autograph Albums — 6:41
13. 12 - Ch 12 Overseas Once More — 7:55
14. 13 - Ch 13 The Last Lap — 9:15
15. 14 - Ch 14 My New Job — 10:10
16. 15 - Ch 15 Diversions in Amiens — 7:12
17. 16 - Ch 16 The Old Fighting Grounds — 7:59
18. 17 - Ch 17 Evacuated to Base — 9:11
19. 18 - Ch 18 Sick Leave — 6:40
20. 19 - Ch 19 Off to French Front — 5:35
21. 20 - Ch 20 Where Wire Meets Sea — 8:52
22. 21 - Ch 21 Going the Rounds — 8:14
23. 22 - Ch 22 Methods of Work — 7:54
24. 23 - Ch 23 An Invitation to Dinner — 6:11

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