Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front, credited to Mary Roberts Rinehart, 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 Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart. Read in English by Librivox Volunteers. 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.)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front
• Author credits: Mary Roberts Rinehart
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 38
• Listed recording duration: 10:26:58

Catalogue topics

• WW I
• western front

Opening tracks: first 24 of 38

1. 00 - For King and Country — 4:26
2. 01 - Taking a Chance — 27:01
3. 02 - 'Somewhere in France' — 15:59
4. 03 - La Panne — 12:40
5. 04 - ' 'Twas a Famous Victory ' — 23:11
6. 05 - A Talk with the King of the Belgians — 23:42
7. 06 - The Cause — 15:14
8. 07 - The Story with an End — 12:36
9. 08 - The Night Raid on Dunkirk — 9:34
10. 09 - No Man's Land — 22:44
11. 10 - The Iron Division — 22:19
12. 11 - At the House of the Barrier — 13:46
13. 12 - Night in the Trenches — 22:59
14. 13 - 'Wipers' — 29:30
15. 14 - Lady Decie's Story — 19:29
16. 15 - Running the Blockade — 21:32
17. 16 - The Man of Ypres — 23:16
18. 17 - In the Line of the 'Mitrailleuse' — 17:00
19. 18 - French Guns in Action — 22:06
20. 19 - 'I Nibble Them' — 7:28
21. 20 - Dunkirk: From my Journal — 5:32
22. 21 - Tea with the Air-Fighters — 15:21
23. 22 - The Women at the Front — 12:33
24. 23 - The Little 'Sick and Sorry' House — 15:16

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