The Brown Brethren: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Brown Brethren, credited to Patrick MacGill, 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 The Brown Brethren by Patrick MacGill. Read in English by KevinS The Brown Brethren tells the story of friends and comrades who fought together during World War I on the Western Front. The principal characters belong to the London Irish Rifles, a volunteer regiment whose 1st Battalion was mobilized immediately with the outbreak of the war. The 1st Battalion, to which this story's characters belong, especially distinguished itself at the Battle of Loos in 1915. This book takes the men up through the Battle of the Somme (1916.) - Summary by KevinS

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Brown Brethren
• Author credits: Patrick MacGill
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 22
• Listed recording duration: 5:39:39

Track guide

1. 01 - At the Café Belle Vue — 19:05
2. 02 - The Lone Road — 22:56
3. 03 - In Love — 18:40
4. 04 - To the Trenches — 16:00
5. 05 - Marching — 11:17
6. 06 - Christmas Eve — 11:29
7. 07 - Christmas Day — 16:49
8. 08 - Back to His Own — 15:58
9. 09 - Trench Fever — 14:09
10. 10 - Lost to the Wide — 21:34
11. 11 - A Scrap — 11:34
12. 12 - The Day's Work — 12:29
13. 13 - The Trenches — 18:54
14. 14 - The Sniper — 16:38
15. 15 - Taters and Vaseline — 13:27
16. 16 - The Rooky — 15:07
17. 17 - Young Blood — 22:18
18. 18 - Bathing — 12:49
19. 19 - The Somme — 18:51
20. 20 - Back from Battle — 9:49
21. 21 - Resting — 9:13
22. 22 - The Married Man — 10:32

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