Our Army at the Front: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Our Army at the Front, credited to Heywood Broun, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Our Army at the Front by Heywood Broun. Read by LibriVox Volunteers During the US deployment in Europe in the final years of the Great War (WWI), the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) was accompanied by notable New York Tribune war correspondent, Heywood Broun. Although Broun better known (and remembered) as a sports writer, drama critic, journalist and social reformer, and not least as a member of the Algonquin Round Table, with such wits as Dorothy Parker and Robert Benchley, his writing of the activities of the AEF as it helped defeat the Central Powers in the war provides a unique perspective, including a view of the international interaction between the Americans and their European allies. The work concludes by reprinting the initial report to the Secretary of Defense by American General John J. (Black Jack) Pershing who was the commander of the AEF, and contains detailed information regarding the level of the US effort and something of the obstacles which had to be overcome for the AEF efforts to be successful. (Dr.PGould)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Our Army at the Front
• Author credits: Heywood Broun
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 6:38:02

Catalogue topics

• World War I
• american expeditionary force
• heywood broun

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - The Landing of Pershing — 11:23
2. 02 - 'Vive Pair-Shang!' — 21:05
3. 03 - The First Division Lands — 18:14
4. 04 - The Fourth of July — 10:06
5. 05 - What They Lived In — 14:18
6. 06 - Getting Their Stride — 15:52
7. 07 - Speeding Up — 17:33
8. 08 - Back with the Big Guns — 11:55
9. 09 - The Eyes of the Army — 11:08
10. 10 - The Schools for Officers — 7:34
11. 11 - Some Distinguished Visitors — 13:08
12. 12 - The Men Who Did Everything — 13:53
13. 13 - Behind the Lines — 13:55
14. 14 - France and the Medicoes — 12:58
15. 15 - In Charge of Morale — 10:00
16. 16 - Into the Trenches — 13:17
17. 17 - Our Own Sector — 12:42
18. 18 - A Civilian Visitor — 14:00
19. 19 - A Famous Gesture — 13:47
20. 20 - The First Two Battles — 16:11
21. 21 - Teufel-Hunden — 12:43
22. 22 - The Army of Manoeuvre — 20:06
23. 23 - St. Mihiel — 14:36
24. 24 - Meuse-Argonne Begins — 14:24

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