Reminiscences of Captain Gronow: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, credited to Rees Howell Gronow, 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 Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, by Captain Rees Howell Gronow. Read by Ruth Golding. A collection of memoirs about the Peninsular War, the Battle of Waterloo, and society and personalities of Regency London and 19th century Paris, by a sometime Grenadier Guards officer, unsuccessful parliamentarian, and dandy. Gronow displays some social attitudes of the day which would now be regarded as unacceptable, but is a clever raconteur who brings to life both the horrors of war and the gaiety of high society. (Summary by Ruth Golding and Wikipedia)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
• Author credits: Rees Howell Gronow
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 10
• Listed recording duration: 5:53:45

Catalogue topics

• memoirs
• war
• military history
• peninsular war
• battle of waterloo
• regency
• london
• paris

Track guide

1. 01 - Sections 01 - 12 The Peninsular War — 50:05
2. 02 - Sections 13 - 17 Regency London — 25:51
3. 03 - Sections 18 - 25 Regency London — 51:11
4. 04 - Sections 25 - 33 The Battle of Waterloo — 25:56
5. 05 - Sections 34 - 42 Military matters; Post-war Paris — 33:31
6. 06 - Sections 43 - 50 Parisian society — 43:18
7. 07 - Sections 51 - 61 Parisian society; British and French characters — 31:55
8. 08 - Sections 62 - 68 Money-lending; British characters — 35:48
9. 09 - Sections 69 - 73 British characters — 18:31
10. 10 - Sections 74 - 88 British characters; Franco-British relations — 37:45

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